Teen-Age Driver of Red Mustang Has the Speeding-in-the-Carwash Blues
Amy Jo McCoy says she’ll never drive into another automatic carwash, which may be good news to the folks at a suburban Philadelphia carwash who are suing her for “speeding.”
Ridge Pike Car Wash in Conshohocken filed the lawsuit last week against the 19-year-old Norristown woman, alleging that she caused $2,152 in damage by driving her red Mustang through at 30 m.p.h. in September, 1984.
The suit contends that McCoy damaged a wrap-around brush unit through “careless, reckless and negligent” driving.
Alex Jafarian, manager of the carwash, said that the brushes were designed to work with vehicles moving about 2 m.p.h. and that the carwash had to close for repairs after the incident.
“It’s not laughable when you’re losing money,” he said last week.
“She is the fastest,” he said. “No question about it.”
McCoy, who was 17 at the time of the incident, said she recalled thinking the conveyor belt was broken and that her car was being pulled faster than usual.
She said that the car probably malfunctioned but that she did not understand why she was being sued.
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