A 75-year-old South Burlington woman was taken to the hospital for evaluation after the compact car she was driving drove into the front door of the Shelburne post office.
On December 6, Shelburne Police, Fire, Rescue and Charlotte Rescue were dispatched to a crash on Falls Road in Shelburne in which a vehicle had struck the Post Office building.
A car operated by Linda Hansen was attempting to park in the lot when her foot hit the accelerator instead of the brake. The vehicle lunged forward and struck the building causing significant damage to the main entrance. A number of people were in the Post Office at the time of the crash, but no one was injured.
Hansen was transported to UVM Medical Center by Charlotte Rescue for evaluation. There is no indication of operator impairment. The Post Office remained open.
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I guess they will have to close it hat post office now and make everyone drive to Barre! What a joke!
This happens in Florida all of the time (a.k.a. “God’s waiting room”) and I wonder if it is symptomatic of dementia.
I’m not sure at what age we should institute yearly driving tests. And actually, since driving is a privilege and not a right, I lean towards yearly driving tests or every time you renew your license, at a minimum. A lot can change in four years and a lot changes in fifty years. If they received their license at age 16, then fifty years later they are 66. And haven’t been tested or reminded/studied the laws of the road in fifty years. We should be requiring that people test more often. Just my humble opine.