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Originally Posted by Sandtrap328
If you take a look at the news article in the on-line Villages paper, you will see the headline of a car "plowed" through Lake Sumter Landing Square. It goes on further to tell of the "wild ride across the square".
Read about it in the Daily Sun and you see plainly that the car jumped the curb, hit a planter box by the curb and stopped. It appears from the photo that the car only went inches onto the sidewalk.
Where is the "wild ride across the square" and how does jumping the curb and coming to rest several inches on the sidewalk amount to "plowing through the square"?
Yes, some pedestrians might have been injured if this had happened a few hours later but the sensational story of a car driving wildly across the square is completely false!
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Perhaps if you had read the entire article you might have noticed several factors that might suggest that the on line news account was more accurate than you want to believe:
The woman was ticketed on a charge of careless driving.
District Property Management was at the square making repairs prior to the start of happy hour.
That doesn't sound to me as if the car jumped a curb and came to rest several inches away! Why would that result in a ticket and the need for repairs?