13 Hurt When Driver Loses Control of Car
From Times Wire Reports
A car accelerated out of control and plowed into a crowd exiting a Jehovah’s Witnesses assembly in Jersey City, injuring 13 people, police said. Three were seriously hurt.
The crash happened when a man waiting for his wife was asked to move his car.
Henry Clax, 78, did not realize he had the car in reverse and backed into a car parked behind him. He apparently panicked, put his car in drive and accelerated, striking three lampposts and then the crowd.
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