“I got right to where the lightpost is and the car jumped the curb and `bam!’ If I had walked a little bit farther I would have been hit,” said Benefield, who added, “Thank God they had their air bags or they would have gone through the windshield.” Witness Kenneth Scott Benefield, 46, of Whittier said he was walking south on Painter near the DMV when the accident occurred. “They have to take him to the doctors because this happened while he was at work,” Gomez said. “Is he OK?” Holliday asked his grandmother. He may have hit his head on the windshield,” Gomez said. “They’re going to be taking him in just to see if he’s OK. He was then loaded into a nearby ambulance. “The officer called it `pedal confusion.”‘Īs they spoke, the DMV examiner who had been in the car with Holliday stepped from the building and on to a waiting gurney. “Instead of slamming on the brake, he stepped on the gas,” Gomez said. “I was pulling out of the driveway and I must have sped up and I crashed,” Holliday said. Nearby, Holliday and his grandmother, Nidia Gomez, watched as CHP officers and emergency workers milled about and took statements from witnesses.
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