Pushing gas instead of brakes leaves woman trapped in car between a truck and a hard place

Woman calls for extrication after pushing parked truck, wedging vehicle between pickup and storefront

Posted 7/11/23

EVANSTON — Evanston Police Department and Uinta County Fire and Ambulance personnel were dispatched to Front Street on Friday after a Utah driver pinned herself between Standard Plumbing Supply and another vehicle. The driver was not injured, but claimed she needed extrication.

According to a report by Evanston police officer Dustin Kennedy, the driver had just picked up her nephew from the Wyoming State Hospital and was searching for a hair salon. Upon realizing the True Value was not a salon, she began to turn around in the parking lot.

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