Learner driver crashes Mercedes in Lidl car park (From Basingstoke Gazette)
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Learner driver crashes Mercedes in Lidl car park
10:11am Monday 11th February 2013 in News By Emily Roberts, Chief Reporter
Learner driver crashes Mercedes in Lidl car park. Picture by Paul King.
THIS was not quite the manoeuvre a learner driver was attempting when she crashed a Mercedes in a supermarket car park last night.
The 36-year-old woman was using the Lidl car park in West Ham, Basingstoke to practise driving in the automatic car when she accidentally put her foot on the accelerator rather than the brake, and shot over a wall at around 5.30pm.
The car ended up landing on its front bumper, with the woman and her 37-year-old husband in the front, and her two children in the passenger seats.
Dave Allen, crew manager at Basingstoke fire station, which is next door to the supermarket, said: “There was no one trapped in it. They all got out."
Vicky O'Hare, corporate communications officer for Hampshire Constabulary, confirmed that the driver was a learner and said she was taken to hospital with "serious leg injuries."
*Were you the driver of this Mercedes? Contact Emily Roberts on 01256 337410 or email emily.roberts@basingstokegazette.co.uk.
Comments(8)
AndrewRH
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11:35am Mon 11 Feb 13
AndrewRH
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2:04pm Mon 11 Feb 13
(the BBC wrongly says, though that crash occurred at the roundabout).
http://www.bbc.co.uk
/news/uk-england-ham
pshire-21412878
jbee37
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2:34pm Mon 11 Feb 13
Ding
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3:39pm Mon 11 Feb 13
laurence86
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4:39pm Tue 12 Feb 13
red teacosy
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6:37pm Wed 13 Feb 13
Upontheroof
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quickpete says...
11:11am Mon 11 Feb 13