[$tinkle]

pre-emptive strike against would-be woman driver: Police: Woman run over, killed trying to get into pickup

Police say Hopson released the brake as she entered the truck, causing it to roll down the driveway before she was fully inside. The truck rolled over her

local broadcast

and then from another site:

“Just some unfortunate circumstances that ruined some people’s day,” Police Sgt. Lonnie Chavez said.

According to a next-door neighbor, the gray heavy-duty truck that struck the woman had been parked in the couple’s driveway, which sits slightly uphill from the road

and then:

The viewer, who asked to be anonymous, said the woman may have been chasing after the runaway truck when she was hit.

 

[Dartman]

Her husband calls the truck "Christine"

 

[OrthoPT]

talk about 'thinning out the herd"

 

[skinny mike]

on halloween a few years back my friends and i witnessed something that could have had similar results.

it was about 930 pm so trick or treating was over and we had walked over to a friends house to grab something there before heading back to someone else's place. a couple of us hung around out front and we see this volvo station wagon coming down the street toward us with no lights on. i realized something was wrong when the lights stayed off and the car didn't slow down for an intersection. it just barely missed clipping a truck going past the street and then it nailed a telephone pole right next to us. as it turns out, there was no one in the car at all and whoever drove it last forgot to put the parking brake on. so we have this small crowd gathered around the car now and then a family comes out and right when they see the car the father looks at his daughter and tells her to move her car. then she begins to back up and he has to yell at her to shut the car door as it was wide open. she should've just stayed in the kitchen.