Monday, October 24, 2005

'Elderly man drives with body in windshield'

CNN article here.

 

A 93-year-old driver apparently suffering from dementia fatally struck a pedestrian and drove for three miles with the man's body through his windshield, police said.

 

Ralph Parker was stopped after he drove through a tollbooth on the Sunshine Skyway, Traffic Homicide Investigator Michael Jockers said. The toll taker called police, he said.

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The victim's leg was severed in the Wednesday night crash, police said. The man, whose name was not released, was 52.

 

Parker had renewed his license in 2003.

 

"That was the one thing he had, to get in his car and just drive for the sheer enjoyment of driving," Jockers said. Parker lived alone after his wife died in 1998, authorities said.

 

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