Driver claims stuck accelerator was cause of the accident.
A stuck accelerator is apparently to blame for an automobile plunging through the front doors of the Shell station on the corner of routes 47 and 34 around lunchtime Monday, Yorkville police said. Want free local news in your delivered to you every morning? Sign up for our newsletter! "The driver of the vehicle was an elderly gentleman, and he said his accelerator got stuck," Deputy Chief of Police Larry Hilt said Monday afternoon. The 76-year-old driver was not injured, nor was anyone inside the store, Hilt said. How many people were inside at the time of the incident is unclear. John Gedraitis was one of the one's inside the Shell store when the car came through the front window. "It was surreal. I really couldn't believe it was …
Local landmark re-branded as Shell.
Rumors of the demise of Marcley’s gas station/mini-mart in downtown Oswego appear to have been greatly exaggerated. The station’s owner for seven years, Thomas Roy, said Shell has not bought out the station at routes 34 and 25. Shell is now the station's gasoline supplier, and part of the supply deal was to rebrand the location, Roy said. “Everything is still the same,” he said. “Employees are the same, managers are the same, mini mart is the same.” Roy said the change was necessary in a difficult economy in which large corporations like Walmart and Meijer are able to slash prices below small business owners. The station needed expensive repairs that he could not afford, and the rebranding has made those possible, Roy said. He also said …
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Kathy Srp
1:19 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
I can agree with you there on people who talk/text while driving. more ›