If we are to believe Margaret Morris's recent explanation of the events leading to her "very minor [vehicle] accident" in a Warren Street parking lot on February 20th -- that her "car slid on the ice" while she was parking it -- how on earth did both of her car's front wheels make their way over a 6-inch ( I measured it) concrete curb at the front of the parking space then continue rolling another foot or two before the front of the car hit the side of a building?
It isn't likely she had her foot off the accelerator as her car went over that curb and continued forward, is it? How could ice that may have been under her car have caused her vehicle "accident," forcing her car over a 6-inch concrete curb? Where did her car's momentum come from? The ice or her foot? How fast was she driving when she pulled into that parking space supposedly full of ice? Does she typically drive her car fast and recklessly in a parking lot, especially when visible snow and ice are everywhere?If our Common Council "president" had run into a person standing in front of the parking space, rather than or also the building, would she still have referred to it as a "very minor accident"?
I've never driven over a 6-inch curb, but I imagine a multi-ton vehicle has to have some serious momentum to do so and not immediately be stopped. Would 10 mph be necessary to hop a 6-inch curb and continue rolling? 15 mph? How about pedal to the metal?

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