Porsche plows into spectators at Idaho car show; 8 hurt

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Keith Ridler, Associated Press
Updated 5:04 pm, Saturday, September 16, 2017

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A Porsche plowed into a crowd of spectators at a Boise, Idaho, car show, injuring at least eight in a horrifying scene that saw bystanders scrambling to tend to the injured, authorities and witnesses said.

Police say the driver of the gray Porsche accelerated while leaving the Cars and Coffee event, lost control and ran into the nearby crowd lining a sidewalk. Police say the driver is cooperating in their investigation.
 
Tom Weekes of Boise attended the event with his 12-year-old son and had just moved a few feet back on the sidewalk when the car lost control.

"My son and I were the last two people he missed," he said. "There was a group of kids to the right of us and he hit every one of them."

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Porsche-plows-into-spectators-at-Idaho-car-show-12203172.php

[Calista241]

1. This is not surprising.

Cars and Coffee is known for rich guys accidentally wrecking out their high end cars as they try to impress all the other like minded attendees.

The original Cars and Coffee was in California, and you could see some really cool cars there on occasion. It was a way for owners and mechanics to show off their rebuilt exotic cars. McLarens, old Jaguars, old Ferrari's, old Porsche's, etc. Jay Leno even brought a wood burning early 1900's car to the event once.

Once word got out though, people started bringing their 600 hp uninteresting muscle cars like Ford Mustang, or Dodge Challengers or Corvettes. Not that Mustangs, Challengers and Corvettes aren't nice cars, but Cars and Coffee was known for rare / exotic / rebuilt cars.

[safeinOhio]

2. Here, hold my coffee and watch this.