Driver who hit 9 vehicles won't be cited

MAYVILLE — The elderly driver who struck nine vehicles in the parking lot of a Mayville grocery store won't be cited, police say.

Police Chief Christopher MacNeill said the episode in the Piggly Wiggly lot on Friday was an accident. the 92-year-old man pulled out of his parking spot, got his foot stuck on the accelerator, panicked and lost control of his vehicle, MacNeill said. Two of the nine vehicles he struck were occupied. No one was hurt.

Donald Gourlie was one of those who came out of the grocery store to find that his wife's car had been hit. He had bought a Valentine's Day card for his wife of 58 years and wrote on the bottom "I love you. Sorry about your car," he told WISN-TV of Milwaukee.