Dangerous car.

last updated 8 January 2015

Washington, D.C.

A station wagon with flat tires and broken windows tore through a crowded church-sponsored street festival at 70 mph last week, injuring at least 40 people, seven seriously. The car flung pedestrians in the air, pinned one man under its wheels, and left bodies strewn on the pavement. The driver, Tonya Bell, 30, had been “smoking crack all day long,” said D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier. Bell, who faces multiple charges, had a 7-year-old child in her car. As the car plowed through the crowd, police finally threw two motor scooters under the vehicle to bring it to a stop. Two cops were injured. “I turned around,” said Denise Jackson, a witness to the mayhem, “and it was like bodies falling out of the sky.”