Removing Mercedes from Verdugo Wash won't be easy →
A 53-year-old woman, whose name was not immediately released, apparently mistook the concrete-lined Verdugo Wash for a freeway onramp. She whizzed down the channel for at least a mile, reaching speeds of up to 70 mph. She finally stopped after barreling down several 3-foot-long steps and after being hailed down by maintenance workers.
Seriously? If you can drive more than a few feet down a flood control channel and not realize that you’re not, you know, on the freeway, you probably shouldn’t be driving ever again.
Lets assume that it’s an S65 (the heaviest sedan Mercedes makes right now), and it’s fully loaded @5,000lbs.
For anything with more power than a Bell 412, that’s a pretty easy lift.
