Summons for “Calgary’s Worst Driver”
Posted Dec 8, 2014 6:33 pm.
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Dubbed ‘Calgary’s worst driver’ after surveillance video surfaced on Youtube, a woman has been handed a summons for unsafe backing. This, following an investigation by police after the video went viral online, showing a driver trying to back out of a stall for five painful minutes, at one point hitting a parked vehicle. The Calgary Police Service says everyone involved was cooperative and the investigation is now closed.
Ken Thrower with the traffic unit says the video wasn’t all that shocking to him.
“I can assure you there is far worse that happen in the parking lot almost everyday. Unfortunately, people panic they maybe have one course of mind instead of planning what they are going to do or they get nervous or people are watching all those sorts of things can happen,” said Thrower.
In the video, a driver spends several minutes trying to back out of a parking stall, driving back and forth in short increments, eventually completing a full circle before driving away from the scene. The video has garnered nearly 2.5 million views on Youtube so far.
