A 53-year-old woman, whose name was not immediately released, apparently mistook the concrete-lined Verdugo Wash for a freeway onramp. She whizzed down the channel for at least a mile, reaching speeds of up to 70 mph. She finally stopped after barreling down several 3-foot-long steps and after being hailed down by maintenance workers.
Seriously? If you can drive more than a few feet down a flood control channel and not realize that you’re not, you know, on the freeway, you probably shouldn’t be driving ever again.
o.o what is this…I don’t even…?
I like that searching “verdugo wash” on google images gets you this in the first row:
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o.o what is this…I don’t even…?
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