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Mixin' Mingle - no drive-through

Mixin' Mingle - no drive-through

Gus Philpott
Woodstock Advocate
October 24, 2013

Yesterday a visitor from Huntley tried to use the drive-through at Mixin' Mingle, 124 Cass Street, on the Woodstock Square.

The only problem was that there is no drive-through there.

According to the Northwest Herald, the 81-year-old woman driver accelerated (when she should have braked).

The paper said she was cited for "failure to use due care to avoid a collision". I wonder if she was also cited for re-examination. One of the privileges a police officer has is to require drivers to be re-examined.

Did the driver have mobility problems? Maybe back or leg problems that didn't allow her to quickly remove her foot from the gas pedal and hit the brake? Or, when the car lurched forward and up over the curb, did her mind just not register quickly enough what was happening?

To be pulling into a parking place, one would be moving slowly; right? Why would you punch the gas?