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The age-old problem of failing eyesight, hearing, mobility and, alas, intelligence-quotient. One does not necessarily grow wiser as one ages. On the other hand, chronological age doesn't always result in failing faculties. The thing of it is, if you never had it, or had it in small doses, age doesn't confer greater intelligence on those grown withered and grey.

Not that age 65 is particularly old. Not from the perspective, say, of a 72-year-old. Still, one might hope that the 72-year-old, like the 65-year-old, might have sufficient presence of mind and ability to think ahead to restrain themselves from physical maneuvering that guarantees disaster.

Unlike infants, inexperienced in the outcomes of awkward positioning, seniors have had ample opportunity to gather experience.

Which didn't stop a woman in Sudbury, Ontario, from tempting fate. Good thing for her that fate wasn't in a particularly cantankerous mood that day, and let her off lightly. Police in Sudbury, called to the scene of a truly improbable incident characterized what they came across as "a most unusual motor vehicle accident".
Yes indeed.

Live this one down: the woman explained that she had seated herself in the family van, put it in reverse, then tried to adjust her seat. While in the process of adjusting her seat, she opened the door and tumbled out. The vehicle continued its reverse trajectory and the woman was hit by the open door, knocked under the vehicle, where a wheel ran over her head.

Good thing for her it was only her head. Incredibly, all she lost was a shank of her hair. "Now ... I can't say whether it was the vehicle ran over her head or clipped the edge of her head", commented a puzzled Staff Sergeant David Treitz.