Girl Sends Grandma's Car Into Pool

[Kor37 9]

Girl Sends Grandma's Car Into Pool

AP

Posted: 2008-03-11 21:13:00

SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) - An 11-year-old girl is in some hot water after she sent her grandmother's car plunging into a swimming pool at Kingston Village apartments in southwest Shreveport.

 

Margaret Gober said she was in her apartment when she heard a commotion outside. Her grandson screamed, Gober went to the door and saw her car in the pool, with her granddaughter Dineshia inside.

 

The girl can't swim so her grandmother and an apartment complex employee helped her to safety. No injuries were reported.

 

The accident apparently happened as Dineshia was trying to turn on the car's CD player. She accidentally put the car into drive and it hit some steps. She then put it in reverse, sending it across the parking lot, through a fence and into the pool.

:blink:

[MrPsychic 1]

Why was the car on in the first place? A car doesn't drive forward in drive, and in reverse, if it's off...

[KIMIMELA 1]

She would have to knock the handbrake off and if the gearstick was left in a gear it would stall because there would be no acceleration.

 

Unless the engine was on.

 

:blink:

[MrPsychic 1]

Another reason to have a manual, the car needs the clutch to go forward, without pushing down on the clutch, the car can't even shift into gear :blink:

[KIMIMELA 1]

Another reason to have a manual, the car needs the clutch to go forward, without pushing down on the clutch, the car can't even shift into gear :blink:

 

Sometimes people leave their cars in gear so if it is on a hill and the handbrake fails the car would stall.

 

 

Normally you just need the ignition to get the CD player though... So... how? LOL

[LordOfTheBorg 1]

haha... i can see this happening to me

[Kor37 9]

She probably turned the engine on to get the cd player to work and then hit the gear shift.

[MrPsychic 1]

Another reason to have a manual, the car needs the clutch to go forward, without pushing down on the clutch, the car can't even shift into gear :blink:

 

Sometimes people leave their cars in gear so if it is on a hill and the handbrake fails the car would stall.

 

 

Normally you just need the ignition to get the CD player though... So... how? LOL

If you leave the car in gear on a hill and the handbrake fails, the car just sorta moves about an inch and stops from the gearshaft.