News of the Weird: Woman Almost Kills Her 9-Year-Old and a Busload of School Kids When She Leaps Out of Her Moving Car—Guess Why She Did It?

Re-posted by Nicholas Stix
 

Woman jumps from moving car after seeing spider, causes crash: police
By Associated Press,
Posted 8:19 AM, September 21, 2015, Updated at 08:20am, September 21, 2015
WGN-TV

SYRACUSE, Ind. — Authorities say a northern Indiana woman jumped from her moving car after discovering a spider on her shoulder, leading to a crash that injured her 9-year-old son.

The Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department says the boy riding in the backseat climbed into the driver’s seat and tried to step on the brake but instead hit the gas pedal, sending the vehicle into a passing school bus.

The boy was taken to IU Health Goshen in stable condition with minor head injuries. No children were on the bus, and its driver wasn’t injured.

The department said the boy’s 35-year-old mother, Angela Kipp of Syracuse, had been backing the car out of her driveway Friday afternoon when she saw the spider and leaped out while the car was still in reverse.