keep on truckin'

It's official, people want a big vehicle because they are safer. Safer if you are inside the vehicle that is.

A sport utility vehicle rammed into the operating room toward the end of a cataract procedure at the Northern New Jersey Eye Institute in South Orange.

Floyd Hunt Jr., 77, (you know I think you can probably lose the junior when you're over seventy years old) of Newark, was trying to back his Toyota 4Runner out of a parking space outside the operating room, but failed to put the car into reverse.

The front end of the sport utility vehicle smashed through a wall and stopped just inches from doctor and patient. The vehicle destroyed steel beams, the ceiling and damaged a $70,000 ultrasound machine used to remove cataracts. Dr. Bernard Spier said that if the accident had happened moments earlier, it could have damaged the patient's eye.

Meanwhile a West Virginia mother was killed when she was run over by her own SUV.

The 25-year-old woman had gotten out of the vehicle with one of her children while two others were inside. One of the children put the Dodge Durango in gear. It started coasting off a driveway and Andrea Johnson tried to stop it.

Officials said the woman fell under the vehicle after about 75 feet, and was dragged about 50 feet ending up in a drainage ditch. She was pronounced dead at a hospital.

So there you are, they are big, their owners are not clever, and you'll put someone's eye out with that if you're not careful.