After my comment at the weekend about self-driving cars ending up in Sainsburys, we now have a car in Tescos. It was driven there by the local mayor. Nobody was injured.
I found this story today in The Sudbury Mercury - everyone's favourite Suffolk-newspaper-named-after-an-American-car.
So, does this Mayor's buffoonery match that of the mayors of London and Paris I have previously highlighted?
I don't know. The story tells of a trip to hospital so it could have been a medical condition caused this.
But I suspect not.
Lots of Mercurys and other American cars end up in buildings due to clumsy or forgetful drivers forgetting how Automatics work:
All nations are affected but most ot these seem to be American due to the high car-ownership over there and the high proportion of those that have Auto-boxes.
I particularly like the third picture. Claim, anyone?
Now, the mayor from our story, Terry Buckle, may have just been unlucky. The story says that "It is believed the car had lurched forward from a parking bay directly in front of the shop, with Mr Buckle at the wheel."
Pesky cars, eh?
Maybe it was a medical condition though - he was stopped in a disabled bay after all.
I put his registration number into mycarcheck.com and, surprise, surprise! - it's an Automatic.
So, it does look like buffoonery - or an excuse to get a mayoral car that's a bit posher than an S-Reg Vectra.
Post Script - Terry is blaming his brakes! Ha!
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