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Posted by ingac70 in General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010)
Tue Feb 09th 2010, 06:07 PM
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6183...

===So afraid was Guadalupe Alberto of driving fast that she steadfastly avoided freeways, her family says.

"And she never passed a car, even if she was following someone going five miles-per-hour," said her daughter, Lilia "Lupe" Alberto. "She'd stay right behind them."

Somehow on a Saturday afternoon in April 2008, the 77-year-old grandmother with an aversion to fast driving was killed when her 2005 Toyota Camry suddenly accelerated out of control on her quiet neighborhood street.

Alberto's Camry sped past other cars, zoomed through the busy four-lane Ballenger Highway, and hit 80 miles per hour before it clipped a tree, went airborne and struck another tree on Copeman Boulevard, only four blocks away from her home, according to her family and a pending lawsuit against Toyota Motor Corp.===

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