The driver who careened off of cars, poles, and walls for two blocks
in that video was 79 years old!!! How much you wanna bet he mistook
the gas pedal for the brake pedal?

http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_0110907_news_popular_crash.55dfbf08.html

Driver in popular crash video recovering

07:13 AM PST on Friday, January 19, 2007

By kgw.com and AP Staff

Broughton Bishop was far from the only driver to crash during this
week's snowstorm.

The SUV slid all over the road and crashed into parked cars.

But his string of collisions is probably the one people remember. How
could they forget? The 38-second video clip played endlessly on KGW-TV
and then aired nationally on several affiliated programs including
'The Today Show' and 'Tonight Show."

It was even part of Jay Leno's monologue and has been a widespread big
hit on the Internet.

Bishop's sport utility vehicle skidded into seven cars in a mishap
recorded shortly before 9 a.m. Tuesday by Derek Porter, who was
standing on the roof of his southwest Portland apartment building.

The 79-year-old driver suffered only a gash to the head. He declined
an ambulance ride and eventually made his way to the office at
Pendleton Woolen Mills, his family's business.

"He feels very fortunate to have walked away from it," his wife, Mary
Bishop, told The Oregonian newspaper, adding that her husband didn't
want to be interviewed. "And he feels very fortunate that no one was
hurt, besides a few cars."

The video clip shows Bishop's vehicle spinning and sliding hundreds of
feet down Southwest Salmon Street and then 20th Avenue, next to the
Multnomah Athletic Club and PGE Park. It starts as the SUV bounces off
a vehicle, spins in the center of the street and then skids through a
four-way stop. The SUV hits a utility pole, a parked Volvo, a
retaining wall and then rolls backward down the hill into five cars
that appear to have already crashed into each other.

In the minutes that followed, two other cars rolled down the icy hill
and crashed into Bishop's SUV. More accidents were to come.

"I was just watching the nightmare in progress -- there was nothing
you could do," said Patrick McKenna, whose car was hit by Bishop after
it had struck another vehicle. "We were helpless."

Despite all the collisions in the neighborhood that morning, no one
appears to have been seriously injured.