It was like just any other morning until a car came through the wall and nearly struck the baby inside.
The vehicle ended up deep inside the Hampton Greens apartment in Bellevue, Washington where Boeing employee Vinod Baba lives with his young family. His family was nearly upended when the vehicle plowed right into the crib where his 8-month-old son was sleeping.
The driver, say Bellevue police, was a 34-year-old woman being taught to drive by her husband.
"She mistook the gas pedal for the brake pedal while she was attempting to park at the carport," said Bellevue police Officer Seth Tyler. "She went over the curb and into the building."
Baba said he rushed home from work. But his son was fine.
At the Defensive Driving School in Bellevue, owner JC Fawcett said instructors have a second brake, if necessary, to force an inexperienced driver to stop.
"Normally, by the time we're on the brake," said Fawcett, "I'll be repeating stop, stop."
But state law requires new drivers to have proof they had 50 hours of practice driving only if they are under 18.
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