Toronto, Ontario — June 25, 2019 – What do you get when you combine a 500 pound gater, a super speedy lawnmower and a runaway grandpa? A week’s worth of weird and wacky collision repair news.
Only in Florida
A nervous squirrel, a family of geese, a pokey turtle; there can be lots of animals that may slow traffic or cause a minor fender bender, but who could imagine that a 12 foot, 500 pound alligator could cause a collision?
Alligator trapper, Broderick Vaughan was called to the scene of an accident where a semi-truck struck a massive gator and although there were no reports about the condition of the truck, when Vaughan arrived to the scene, the gator was still alive and walking around the highway.
Vaughan reported that the alligator, which was later named Nascar, is one of the biggest ones he’s ever encountered.
We’re sure the damage the semi-truck sustained was pretty bad as, under Florida wildlife regulation, any gator over four feet in length is considered a nuisance and potential threat. Nascar broke that regulation 3 times over.
Mean Mower
When Honda isn’t busy designing autonomous and electric vehicles, they’re building lightning-speed lawnmowers.
You read that right, the latest “Mean Mower” uses a 200bhp 999cc four-cylinder engine from the company’s CBR1000RR motorcycle and can reach 100mph in only 6.3 seconds.
The mower has nabbed Honda a Guinness world record and is officially faster than a Ferrari Portfino.
Honda admitted that they “scared themselves witless” when making the vehicle and had to hire stunt driver, Jess Hawkins to test the mower out.
Now if only they’d put one on the market.
https://www.motor1.com/news/353857/honda-mean-mower-guinness-record/
Bad Grandpa
A driver in Los Angeles lost control of his vehicle and crashed into not one, not two, not three, but four parked vehicles before attempting to run away, unscathed.
Around 1 p.m. on Sunday the local police received a call reporting a traffic collision near the Huntington Park area, when they arrived, they discovered five smashed vehicles and one 75 year-old, bleeding from the face.
Jose Lazendure the culprit of the four-time crash, had attempted to run from his mess, however, an unknown person had struck him in the face to prevent him from fleeing the scene.
Eyewitnesses reported that Lazendure kept ramming “back and forth” causing pedestrians to run away in fear.
Aside from a nosebleed however, Lazendure is completely fine, however the front of his Ford truck can’t say the same
https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2019/06/25/man-loses-control-of-vehicle-crashes-into-4-parked-cars/
