Woman backs into patrol car at traffic light
July 21st, 2009, 10:11 am · Post a Comment · posted by Tony
PANAMA CITY - Sometimes, the concept of “No harm, no foul” actually works out. Sometimes life is like a Modest Mouse song. This one here (listen to the first stanza).
According to a Bay County Sheriff’s Office incident report marked “Traffic Problem,” a deputy had just dropped someone off at Bay Behavioral about 4:30 a.m. Monday, July 20, and was waiting at a traffic light on Harrison Avenue at the U.S. 231 intersection. His car was directly behind a white Mitsubishi Galant that had pulled just forward of the white line.
The light was red. The driver of the Galant, a 24-year-old Panama City woman, perhaps thinking she was too far forward to trip the light sensor, ”decided to back up so the light would turn green,” the deputy reported. “When she backed up, she failed to see my patrol car directly behind her.”
The Galant struck the left front bumper of the patrol car, but there was no damage to either vehicle. The deputy photographed the vehicles to document the lack of damage, took the woman’s insurance and license information, and let her go.
Sometimes life’s OK.
