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I promise yall the same thing happened to us last year..an old man came through our barricades and hit our tent, drug it and never stopped..luckly no one was injured. My heart broke when I read this just now:
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (July 16) - Eight people were killed and dozens injured on Wednesday when a speeding car with an 86-year-old man at the wheel barreled for three blocks through a crowded street market in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica, police said.
A three-year-old girl was among those killed when the 1992 Buick LeSabre crashed through barricades at one end of the street and careened wildly through the market, sending bodies flying, shortly before 2 p.m. local time (5 p.m. EDT).
Fifteen people were critically injured, with between 20 and 30 others suffering moderate to minor injuries in what Santa Monica Police Chief James Butts called ''the most devastating accident scene that I have witnessed in 30 years of law enforcement.''
The driver, who was not identified by police, walked away from the incident with only minor injuries and was being interviewed by investigators but had not been detained or arrested, Butts said.
He said the man, who walks with a cane, ''told us he couldn't stop the vehicle'' and might have stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake.
The popular street market was transformed into a disaster scene as bleeding shoppers were treated on the ground amid the wreckage of nearby produce stalls and their contents while helicopters evacuated the critically injured.
Butts said investigators were trying to determine if criminal charges were warranted.
''We need to determine whether this is an accident or medically related or whether it was an act of criminal negligence or criminal homicide,'' Butts said, adding that tests had found no alcohol or medication in the man's system.
The car came to a stop after one of the injured was thrown into the air and landed on the windshield, cracking it, he said.
Butts said that more than 100 witnesses to the crash had been interviewed and had offered ''conflicting accounts.'' He declined to say how fast investigators believed the car had been going.
'I HEARD SCREAMING, PEOPLE RUNNING'
''I don't have a speed estimate but it was going fast enough to destroy or demolish some of these stands and kill eight people,'' he said.
Thousands of people attend the farmer's market, which is held weekly on a closed street near the beach in Santa Monica.
The maroon LeSabre sat at the end of the street, with a deceased person covered by a yellow tarp at its front end and two shoes resting on the roof.
''I saw it right there -- bam,'' witness David Allwas told KABC-TV. ''There were people bleeding everywhere.''
Witness David Baxter said of the driver, ''I heard him tell a cop he had been driving since he was 14 and this was his first accident,'' Baxter said. ''He was confused and disoriented.''
Baxter said he saw the car hit at least two people.
''I was walking back to my office block on Second (street) when I heard screaming and a bunch of people running, falling to the ground,'' witness Jason King said.
Toni Zeto, a Santa Monica teacher, tearfully told Reuters that she was still searching for her boyfriend, Steven Vodantis, who she believed was at the market at the time of the crash.
''As soon as I knew something had happened here, I called him on the cell phone and left a message just telling him what had happened,'' Zeto said. ''I have heard nothing since and it is such a horrible situation.''
She added: ''I don't know what to think or feel at the moment.''
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