> Ms. Marseille said in an interview Tuesday that she was entering a parking space near a library when she heard the engine roar. "I looked down and my foot was still on the brake, so I did not have my foot on the gas pedal," she said.

Ms. Marseille, if you are so sure that is what happened, I invite you to sit in my friend's '09 Camry, and from a stop, stand on the brakes and then simultaneously floor the engine. Let's see if you go anywhere.

There is a reason cars can brake many times faster than they accelerate. The only way to start moving in the above situation involves really big engines, manual transmissions, and careful 2-foot, 3-pedal technique.

> "It makes me very angry when someone tells me, 'She probably hit the gas pedal instead,' because I think it's a sexist comment, an ageist comment," she said.

If someone has proof, it is neither sexist nor ageist. (I'm calling the surveillance video evidence that the brake lights did not go on proof. Brake lights basically can't malfunction, short of blown fuses or bulbs, yet they turned on after the impact)