A lady working towards to drive at a cemetery misplaced management of her automobile and crashed into eight headstones.
Officers with the Melrose Police Division responded to the Wyoming Cemetery in Melrose, Massachusetts, on Saturday afternoon, mentioned Police Chief Michael Lyle.
Round 2:30pm, the lady, 53, mistakenly stepped on the gasoline pedal as an alternative of the brakes and went flying right into a row of tombstones, Melrose police Lieutenant David Mackey mentioned.
‘It was an older lady who simply by no means realized to drive, apparently only in the near past obtained her allow, and doubtless shouldn’t have,’ Mackey informed the Each day Mail. ‘What are you able to do? Accidents occur.’
Mackey added: ‘No crime concerned, simply an unlucky accident with a substantial quantity of harm.’
The unidentified driver had a relative who's a licensed operator using along with her, police mentioned. Neither of them was injured.
Photos from the accident confirmed an older mannequin white Vary Rover on prime of a pile of tombstones, with particles and shredded earth round it. The entrance bumper was thrashed and the entrance left facet of the SUV was bent it. The entrance left tire fell off and lay a distance to the left within the grass.
The automobile was towed away from the scene, in response to Mackey.
Quite a few headstones had been injury and positioned again upright of their unique positions by the Division of Public Works, Lyle informed FOX 2.
It's believed that the lady misplaced management of the automobile when she struck the headstones.
The police division continues to be investigating the incident.
It isn't the primary incident of a automotive accident at a cemetery within the US not too long ago. On Memorial Day 2021, a lady suspected of drunk driving crashed into a number of headstones at a veterans cemetery. She was arrested after allegedly sideswiping two automobiles at Ford Cemetery in Denver after which ramming into the tombstones.
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