Lawn workers lift car off woman

BOYNTON BEACH, Fla., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- An 84-year-old Florida woman said a crew of lawn maintenance workers lifted her car when she became pinned underneath it.

Yetta Cohen of Boynton Beach said she had just returned from shopping Wednesday and exited her car when the vehicle began rolling on its own, WPBF-TV, Palm Beach, Fla., reported Friday.

"And all of a sudden, the car starts to move and it starts dragging me all the way out from the one end of the garage all the way out to the street," Cohen said.

Maintenance supervisor Bob Nemeth, who witnessed the incident, said he and others nearby tried to use the jack from the car's trunk to lift the car off Cohen, but the plan did not work. He said the woman had been under her car for about 15 minutes when 14 members of a lawn maintenance crew walked around the corner and lifted the rear of the car.

"We had to do it twice," Nemeth said. "It didn't work the first time. We didn't get it high enough. We lifted it up and over. Then, while they still had it up, I ran over and dragged her out from underneath."

Cohen said an ambulance arrived and took her to the hospital.

"They did all kinds of scans and X-rays and, fortunately, nothing was broken," she said.