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Jun. 23, 2009
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Justice's car plows into store

Pickering apologized to the store owner, wasn't cited in incident

By MAGGIE LILLIS
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

Las Vegas firefighters examine Nevada Supreme Court Justice Kris Pickering's car Monday after it crashed through the glass front of a UPS Store on Rancho Drive.
Photo by The Associated Press

State Supreme Court Justice Kris Pickering drove her Mercedes-Benz station wagon into the front of a UPS Store near Rancho Drive and Charleston Boulevard about 9 a.m. Monday, the store's owner said.

Justice Pickering told store owner Dane Halovich that she was pulling into a parking space in front of the store, located at 840 S. Rancho Drive, when her accelerator stuck, causing her to smash into the store. She narrowly missed a customer who had just exited.

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    • No one was injured, he said.

    "The whole front just exploded inward," Halovich said. "All the wood and glass flew in like shrapnel and everything shot right by me. Miraculously, it just missed me."

    Halovich said the air bags in the car did not deploy and Pickering was able to get out with her two dogs.

    "I knew who she was, and she apologized," said Halovich, who was behind a cash register when the crash occurred.

    He said Pickering has been a customer at the store.

    Investigators cleared the scene, and Pickering's gray 2007 Mercedes-Benz station wagon, which received minor damage, was towed from the store.

    In a statement from Pickering's office, the justice said, "I am so thankful no one was physically hurt."

    Las Vegas police Sgt. John Loretto said Pickering was not cited for the incident because it occurred on private property and did not involve criminal intent, such as reckless driving.

    He said it's not unusual not to issue citations in situations like Monday's crash.

    Bill Gang, court spokesman, said Pickering was going to a nearby shoe repair store at the time of the crash. He did not know whether her two dogs were loose inside the car or could have contributed to the crash.

    Halovich said the store, located near a Smith's grocery store, will likely reopen today. He didn't know how much the repairs would cost but said the crash destroyed a brand-new copy machine.

    "We turned up much better than we could have been," he said.

    Contact reporter Maggie Lillis at mlillis@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0279.

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    joe wrote on June 23, 2009 11:33 PM: Thats what happens when you show how pretentious you are in a disgusting Mercedes. Get a real car. Did anyone do a blood test to check the chick out or what??? If it's dirty, this could be a very serious crime....


    Vroom wrote on June 23, 2009 01:12 PM: "Mercedes" and others;
    Mercedes Benz has electronic throttle...there IS NO MECHANICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ACCELERATOR AND FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM.

    A simple computer download will more than likely show what happened.


    TimeRanger wrote on June 23, 2009 11:49 AM: "...when her accelerator stuck.."

    Yeah sure. Just how fast was she going in that parking lot anyway? She ever hear of using a BRAKE or did Mercedes fail to install BRAKES on that particular car?


    here come the mormon spin doctors to justify this human error wrote on June 23, 2009 09:59 AM: .































    human error






























































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    Duh wrote on June 23, 2009 09:59 AM: Yokel-

    Clerks are salaried positions you twit. And she is a Supreme Court Justice which means she doesn't have a stack of cases waiting to be heard on her desk. No one here ever ran an errand during work hours? Get real.


    Mercedes wrote on June 23, 2009 09:36 AM: I worked for a prominent doctor whose Mercedes stuck in the on position and she crashed in to a wall. She was hurt, but no one else was.

    I think it's a defect in the cars.


    K wrote on June 23, 2009 09:31 AM: Ok - I can't help myself ------- Is justice blind?


    Observation wrote on June 23, 2009 09:01 AM: Yeah, her accelerator stuck, right. NOT! Esp. on a Mercedez.


    Yokel wrote on June 23, 2009 08:55 AM: OK...am I the only one that noticed that this accident occurred at 9am? Shouldn't she have been at the courthouse by then???? And people wonder why our judicial system in Nevada stinks.

    When you have court clerks eating at the courthouse cafe from 9am-11am (during work hours), then staying after 5pm and charging the county overtime....when you have judges rolling into the RJC well WELL after 8am do begin working on their stacks of case files...etc. etc. etc.

    Just because there are no hearings at 8am doesn't mean that they should not be on the clock. She may be a judge, but she is also a civil servant and needs to work her 40 hours a week too. And if she had her dogs with her....that means she was probably not even ready to go to drive into work yet, but would have returned home first to drop off her dogs. Good job guys! Keep representin' Nevada!


    BT wrote on June 23, 2009 08:02 AM: Is it possible that this was just an accident? Nah, Bor-ring! I heard from a friend who works at another UPS store that she was giving birth to her landscaper's love child while shooting up. It is a good thing the moonshine still in her trunk didn't explode or it would have been raining blood diamonds.


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