While we search the newswires every day for the car, truck, motorcycle and motor racing stories we think you'll find most useful and entertaining, sometimes a story jumps off the screen, grabs us by the throat and pummels us into submission all the time screaming, "This could only happen in Southern California!"
Which is exactly what happened with the story below ... How could we possibly resist posting 
this story, and thanks to it, creating a new site section entitled, "Only in So Cal". And we think the following is a great story with which to kick-off (pardon the pun, which you'll 'get' after reading the first line of the piece, which we found on the KNBC/TV4 website) the new section:
An 80-year-old Corona (a city about 30 miles east of Anaheim, CA) woman who tried to turn off the idling engine of a Range Rover was hospitalized after the vehicle slipped into gear and ran over her legs Monday, authorities said. (Photo - The daunting interior of a Range Rover; could an 80-year old woman lean into the vehicle, engine idling, and turn the key while it's in the ignition?)
The Range Rover then continued into the street, where it managed to strike both sides of a parked vehicle (now you don't see THAT every day, do you?) before plowing into a tree. The crash was reported at 9:35 a.m., and happened at a home in a gated community on Reserve Drive at Trilogy Parkway, said California Highway Patrol Officer George Foard.
The engine apparently had been started by the victim's 50-year-old daughter, who then got out of the Range Rover and went into the home, Foard said. He said the vehicle had not been put properly into the "park" mode and slipped into gear as the 80-year-old woman leaned into it.
Foard said that the Rover ran over both her legs, cutting the flesh down to the bone. The vehicle then rolled backward down the driveway and hit a parked vehicle belonging to a woman who was waiting to take the 80-year-old woman on an errand, he said.
After hitting one side of the other vehicle, the Range Rover continued into the street, where it did a U-turn
and then struck the same vehicle on its other side, Foard said. The Rover then went up the driveway and struck a tree, he said.
The victim was taken by ambulance to Inland Valley Medical Center, the CHP reported. The woman in the other vehicle was not injured, authorities said. (end of story)
Now ... Could we make these things up? Our best wishes to the injured woman. She must have imagined that she's a lot taller than she is, in order to reach into an idling Range Rover from the driver's side open door, then try to reach either over or under the steering column tunnel to try and turn the key ... And if she reached in from the passenger's side, then she was really not hitting on all eight, as the saying goes.
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