Carnage on King Street
By Morley Hunt
@Morleyhunt (21737)
Canada
December 7, 2016 7:34pm CST
Go away for the day and look what happens.
This morning I went to visit my father and helped him assemble a bookshelf......meanwhile......
The road I drove just yesterday became the scene of a demolition derby type event.
A drunk driver struck not one, not two, but seven vehicles before he came to a stop.
One of the cars, waiting at a red traffic light was struck so hard he flew across the road and into a department store.....the facade of the department store where the car was lodges had just been rebuilt....finished less than a week ago.
Thankfully no one was seriously hurt.
Now to attempt a link.
A shocking incident in Port Colborne this morning after an alleged impaired driver slammed into several cars, even sending one into a storefront.
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@jaboUK (64361)
• United Kingdom
8 Dec 16
@Morleyhunt Exactly, but I suppose if they print that he was drunk and it turns out that he wasn't, they could be sued.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
@jaboUK political correctness. I remember many years ago, on a radio talk show....the caller took offence at the term visually impaired...his comment. I'm blind as a bat....can't we just say that. [b][/b]everyone knows what that means
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
Impaired = drunk. The use of euphemisms is confusing if you're not familiar with them. Why not just say he was drunk.
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@LadyDuck (457822)
• Switzerland
8 Dec 16
@Morleyhunt This is what happened to the young boy in the Ferrari, he hit the gas instead of the brakes. Yesterday someone did the same and he went down the Metro stairs in another Italian city.
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@MarshaMusselman (38645)
• Midland, Michigan
8 Dec 16
@Morleyhunt I was wondering what you and Joanne meant by a 'drive-thru'. We don't get many of those situations around here.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
In the last fifteen years so many buildings in our community have been turned into "drive thru" by senior who hit the gas when they meant to hit the brakes.....the bakery, the pizza shop, a bank, a house (that was a transport truck avoiding a mini van that ran a red light), the real estate office, the fabric shop, the grocery store.......
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@shaggin (71663)
• United States
8 Dec 16
@Morleyhunt Wow! I wonder what their reason was like were they fired from their job?
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
They got started pretty early...it was only 10 AM.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
@shaggin very little has been said about the man in the pick up truck. More details of the accident are coming out. He was going very fast (30 mph/50 km speed zone). After striking the first two cars he sailed over the railroad tracks....losing a tire......I shake my head.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
8 Dec 16
seems like lots 'f guardian angels were workin' o'ertime! thank the stars there were no fatalities 'r serious injuries.
what a shame that the department store's gonna need to start all o'er with repairs, particularly durin' the holiday shoppin' frenzy :(
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
9 Dec 16
@Morleyhunt he lost a wheel?? good heavens! 'tis a miracle that no more damage/injuries were incurred. i hope that law 'tis most tough'n this fella!
@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
9 Dec 16
@crazyhorseladycx so far he is facing at least 8 charges.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
9 Dec 16
It certainly has become the talk of the town. No one feels very sympathetic to the fool in the truck. I watched some of the footage caught on security cameras....he was flying. He managed to lose a wheel and still travelled another almost 800 ft.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
I felt really bad for the shop owner. Tuesday was the first day I saw the new facade without any boards or scaffolding. Now it is all boarded up again.
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@JudyEv (325584)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Dec 16
@Morleyhunt They will be devastated. So close to Christmas too.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
@Happy2BeMe no excuse for this kind of behaviour....endangering everyone around.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
That is indeed fortunate. There are often many pedestrians in the area in front of that store.
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@Happy2BeMe (99399)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
@Morleyhunt It is scary out there sometimes. You just never know.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
If it hadn't actually happened, you would have told me that my imagination was obviously working overtime.
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
8 Dec 16
@Morleyhunt that had toi be really scary roo
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
9 Dec 16
Incredible what kind of damage the loose nut behind the wheel can cause when someone gives him the keys.
@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
And I missed all of the excitement. Actually I'm glad I wasn't there. Watching all that happen...knowing there is nothing you can do to stop it would cause nightmares.
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@MarshaMusselman (38645)
• Midland, Michigan
8 Dec 16
Good job on the link. Did it take you more than one try to get it this time? When I forget to put an extra space between my post and the link, it doesn't show up right.
It's good that no one was seriously hurt. I hope that no one was in the store at that point in time. It doesn't look like the driver of that blue car fared well, but maybe the front of the car wasn't as bad as the back. I bet the store owners were devastated and I hope that the drunk driver had insurance so the store can be recompensed, or maybe it's done differently there in Canada?
@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
9 Dec 16
There was a customer in the store that was injured. The driver of the car that entered the store also had injuries. To have valid license plates, you must provide proof of insurance. If his insurance has lapsed, there will be further charges.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
Yesterday was the first time I had seem the newly finished storefront....now they get to redo it.
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@Morethanamom (1948)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
At 10 am no less. The little dude and I didn't venture down that way until 11 and we were just a block away.
@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
We were at the other end so we missed the excitement.....in fact, we heard about mid afternoon....by then most was cleaned up....the store front.....that will take a while.
@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
8 Dec 16
Man what a good picture! I hope no one was hurt.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
He couldn't be content with hitting just one car.....but seven? That is a bit extreme. And then putting one of them through the newly refurbished store front (24 hours) was the icing on the cake.
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@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
9 Dec 16
@mommymonky too much wobbly pop. That seems to have been the main culprit.
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@Jackalyn (7559)
• Oxford, England
8 Dec 16
That is dreadful. It is a miracle nobody was seriously hurt.
@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
It could have been much worse. If this had happened at the same time on a Friday morning the area would have been crowded with pedestrians as well.
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@IreneVincent (15962)
• United States
8 Dec 16
I'm glad you weren't involved.. It sounds really bad.
@Morleyhunt (21737)
• Canada
8 Dec 16
The "impaired" driver must have been really drunk. How did he ever think he could just run away.
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