Someone didn’t get the memo that shops in buying malls don’t work on the drive-through system.
A girl in her 70s drove her Lincoln MKX SUV proper into the second flooring of the South Shore Plaza mall in Braintree this morning, in line with Braintree Police.
When officers arrived on the mall, the motive force was nonetheless seated in her car which she had parked in entrance of a second-story retailer, in line with a police assertion. Police and a psychological well being clinician spoke along with her on the scene earlier than police transported her to an space hospital for extra testing.
While no expenses have been filed, Braintree police are requesting a direct menace license suspension from the Registry of Motor Vehicles.
According to state regulation, meaning her license may be suspended or revoked and not using a listening to if her actions “would give the registrar reason to believe that continuing operation … will be so seriously improper as to constitute an immediate threat to the public safety.”
Video reveals the white SUV slowly coming into into the second flooring of the mall by means of a pedestrian bridge from the south storage after the sliding door sensors opened. The car creeps up right into a cart return and visibly bends it earlier than backing up off of it after which steering left previous it and into the mall.
Police say the car continued for about 60 yards into the constructing earlier than the operator stopped it. The car sustained minor injury from knocking over a planter and different gadgets. A bollard that may have prevented the car from driving into the mall had been faraway from a previous accident and was already scheduled to get replaced.
The Herald has reached out to representatives from each the mall and Simon Property Group, which owns it, for added remark.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com”