To not know how this happened?

[howisthispossible]

So, sister was parked outside the post office today, with her jack Russell dog loose inside the car (not sure if this is relevant)
She’s told me that she got back into the car and her foot slipped and it’s flown forward with such force that it’s mounted a kerb and smashed right through the wall outside the post office. Looks like the wall was hit at about 30 mph to be honest.
She keeps changing her story though and now is saying she wasn’t in the car and it just rolled forwards as the handbrake must have failed (which would have just bumped the wall I imagine, not crashed through it)
DH thinks the dog has jumped into the footwell and hit the accelerator.
Is this possible in an automatic car?
I just can’t work out why her story keeps changing.

She’s lucky she didn’t hurt or kill someone. My aunty and cousin aged 5 at the time, along with a woman and her 2yr old child were very badly injured by a driver who also claimed she didn’t “know” how her car had mounted the kerb at speed, ploughing into aunt and cousin on the footpath, and through the wall of a cafe where the lady & 2yr old were.
Reality, for some reason she had planted foot on the accelerator rather than the brake.
Lucky for all concerned that no one was killed, cousin very likely would have been with the position she was in when the car approached but aunty was superwoman that day, saw it coming and lifted her to try and throw her out of the way. The car clipped my cousins hip (causing problems to this day) and my aunty suffered 2 broken legs and a broken arm. The woman in the cafe was playing with her child in a play area at the front of the cafe and was very badly injured.
I question whether your sister should still be driving after this. It is not nothing, and could have had very serious consequences for any pedestrians.

You can't leave the car running and in drive in an automatic. It would start moving very very slowly forward if you were even able to get out of it while it was moving. She's somehow hit the accelerator. The dog wouldn't have been able to do it unless she was also in the car and had moved it from park to drive. Her story doesn't make sense.

I just spoke to my friend who works in insurance and apparently when you hit an object it throws you forward, which in turns makes you push the accelerator down even more if your foot is already on it.
Perhaps she hit the kerb, got jolted forward, then pressed the accelerator even harder and flew through the wall.
God knows.
I suppose the main thing is that she’s ok.

People usually change their story to shift blame. She could be really embarrassed.
Remind her there may be cctv footage before she talks to her insurance.

Poor Dog

Give him a treat. Hes been made a scapegoat today

Your husband's theory is pretty crap tbh. It's lucky no-one was hurt, but th see things do happen.

30mph OP and she'd have been inside the post office not just the wall. It really doesnt take much to knock a wall over

Ok fair enough re the speed.
I was just shocked that someone could go from stationery to powering through a brick wall in a 3 metre space.

She's probably really shocked and freaked out tbh, I'd quit analyzing what she could have done wrong a d just support her.

Given you're confident she hadn't been drinking etc. and no one was hurt I'm not sure why you're so keen to pick holes in her story?

I know someone who, on trying to reverse out of a parking space in front of a store, went forward instead, and rammed right through the store window.

@SerenDippitty, but once you have the engine running can you not leave it in park and get out again?

You can, yes, but I would never leave the engine running to get out and go into a shop. The only time I have done that is because I’ve left my office pass in my bag on the back seat (I need it to get into the car park). When I do that I put the handbrake on or the engine will go off anyway.