On The Rocks

[Carl]

From Tuesday.

https://www.laverdad.es/orihuela-torrev ... 36-nt.html

Image in article, Google translation:

A woman in her eighties fell into the rocks of Torrevieja's Juan Aparicio promenade early this morning with her vehicle. Trapped inside, several crews from the Torrevieja fire station, along with the local police, were called in. The woman did not suffer serious injuries and is doing well, although she required medical attention.

Sources indicate that everything points to a distraction as the cause of the accident, resulting in the driver wandering into the pedestrian zone. The fire department was notified at 6:00 a.m.

[Bee]

It looks to be up around the northern end of the Paseo where what they call the swimming pool is. It says she probably came out from the garage of one of the building at 6.00am. I can't say I recall any garage exits along the Prom as the only vehicules you would see are the cleaning vehicles and delivery vans.

https://www.informacion.es/vega-baja/20 ... 98122.html

Bee

[Carl]

It looks to be up around the northern end of the Paseo where what they call the swimming pool is. It says she probably came out from the garage of one of the building at 6.00am. I can't say I recall any garage exits along the Prom as the only vehicules you would see are the cleaning vehicles and delivery vans.

https://www.informacion.es/vega-baja/20 ... 98122.html

Bee

The car seems to have ended up where the wooden decking is in the centre of these links:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/D25UsKjERmEP1dPMA
https://maps.app.goo.gl/n4MbhhqQzkzjnzzw6

The Informacion article says she had left a parking area of a frontline building. Could possibly have been this underground car park, exited and drove straight across onto the Paseo. The dropped curb was well placed!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/ckFFvy2qXsJmvAKa8

View from the car park exit:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/i42UngWa4WkL1uak7

[Bee]

Yes Carl that looks like the scence of the crime. She must have been a bit scatty as she would still be crossing a street and its not directly on the sea front. She must have come out the garage door at speed and shot across the road. I am familiar with that street and corner as it is the one-way system out from town going towards Los Locos. You would have to go out of your way to drive onto the Paseo.

Bee

[Brandyboy]

I wonder if alcohol played a part, although many Youtube videos shows drivers in their 80's executing similar inexplicable maneuvers, often pressing the accelerator instead of the brake. !!

[Bee]

At 6.00a.m BB. Unless she was going home from a night on the tiles

Bee

[Carl]

At 6.00a.m BB. Unless she was going home from a night on the tiles

Bee

Well and truly found out if she was trying to go home quietly, and get home before it got light.

[Bee]

Bee

[Brandyboy]

Her age ranges from 79 (Informacion) to the 80's (La Verdad),and I can't seem to find any reference to her nationality only she was 'foreign'

[Razor Ruddock]

I remember, some years ago, my son phoned me while I was playing golf and said “Dad, there’s a car in the garden”, well that was an impossibility. The only way to get a car into our garden would be to crane it in.
When I got home, sure enough, there’s the car, it’s about 2” from my patio doors. The garden is full of paint and tools etc.
The car had come past my neighbours house, across his garden, demolished his garden shed, hence the paint etc., across our rockery and thankfully stopped just short of entering our lounge via our patio doors.
The car had come through such narrow gaps that it was a virtual miracle, that it got where it got.
The police crawled all over the car and found no mechanical fault.
Anyway, the next day, there’s a knock at the door and there’s a little old boy standing there, about 4’6”. Not a hair on his head.
He’d come to apologise for the damage he’d caused. Apparently his foot had caught between the brake and the accelerator. He then mentioned that he couldn’t understand it, he’d driven tanks in the war. I couldn’t resist “I can effin see that, mate”
I actually felt sorry for him, he needed a cuddle more than a bollocking, poor old sod.
I found out later that he was visiting his ‘girlfriend’. Perhaps he’d got over excited.