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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A 75-year-old woman who saw two troopers on the northbound shoulder of I-95 smashed her vehicle into theirs and then the vehicle they had pulled over after she herself pulled over Wednesday with the intention of asking them a question, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
Here is a synopsis of what happened as reported in the 2:55 p.m. accident by the highway patrol: Two patrol cars parked side by side, on northbound I-95 near S.R. 442, were conducting a traffic stop on 35-year-old motorist Jessie Queen of Ormond Beach in his 4-door Ford on the northbound shoulder Shirley Ann Black of Ormond Beach. Shirley Ann Blackwell, the 75-year-old motorist from Vero Beach, pulled onto the shoulder because she wanted to ask the troopers a question, but lost control of her 2003 4-door Saturn and struck both patrol cars and then rear-ended the other stopped motorist's car.
Blackwell was transported to Bert Fish Medical Center for minor injuries. Neither the troopers nor the other driver were injured.
The accident is under investigation and charges are pending against the elderly driver, Troopers did not release any information on what the woman wanted to ask them.