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November 27, 2009

By Jean Cole The News Courier Fri Nov 27, 2009, 08:33 PM CST

Milagros Ocasio was looking over Sanderfer Apartments on Friday when his car lunged forward, mowed down a sign, sideswiped a boxwood shrub and bumped into the concrete porch of Apartment 219.

When Athens Police and Athens Fire Department arrived about noon, no one was injured. The airbag of Ocasio’s car had deployed. The impact uprooted a “Resident Parking Only” sign, which lay in the wake of his car, and crushed and pinned an empty baby stroller between the car’s front bumper and the porch.

Ocasio told Officer Daniel McNatt, who investigated the accident, his vehicle’s gas pedal stuck.

A witness at the scene said he was driving behind Ocasio’s vehicle, because they wanted to look at Sanderfer Apartments, when Ocasio pulled into the lot near Apartment 219 and was going to back up and turn around but the car shot forward instead.

His car was towed.

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