16-year-old driver flips car, says she was trying to swipe spider web away, WA cops say
A 16-year-old driver who flipped her car told police the accident happened when she tried to swipe away a spider web, Washington authorities said.
The teen crashed at 8:24 p.m. July 5 in Vancouver, city police spokesperson Kim Kapp told McClatchy News by email July 8.
She had gotten her license two months earlier, police said in a Facebook post.
She rolled her car and crashed into several parked cars on the road and told officers she was trying to clear a spider web inside the vehicle, police said.
Police said “texting and driving is suspected,” but it did not appear that a citation was issued, according to Kapp.
Police said her insurance information was given to the owners of the damaged vehicles.
“I once had a spider come down on his web right in front of me while i was driving,” one person commented on the Facebook post.
“I had one (a spider) drop down in front of me in my convertible. It hung there in front of my eyes, blowing toward me, toward me, toward me for a mile and a half before there was a stinking exit,” another person commented.
Vancouver is near the Washington-Oregon border, about a 10-mile drive north from Portland, Oregon.
This story was originally published July 8, 2024 at 6:30 PM with the headline "16-year-old driver flips car, says she was trying to swipe spider web away, WA cops say."
