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2 People Hit By Car In Braintree Parking Lot

BRAINTREE (CBS) - A 93-year old grandmother was behind the wheel of a car that injured several people including a child.

"She said it was the worst thing to ever happen to her," Dan Parma said. "To hurt somebody here."

Dan Parma and his grandmother were leaving a Braintree Stop and Shop Friday afternoon when he says a woman on her cellphone, cutting in between parked cars, struck them.

"We lunged forward. I don't know if my grandmother was jostled and then she was trying to regain control because she has hand controls and we went forward instead of stopping. Just one of them things," Parma said.

Parma's 93-year-old grandmother, Mary Parma, was beside herself, he says, as her Grand Marquis struck several parked cars and two men loading their groceries.

"There was a lot of carnage," said Denise Parigian. "It's probably one of the worst I've seen in a while in a parking lot."

A child inside one of those parked cars was also checked out at the hospital.

"I'm in the car with her all the time," Dan Parma said of his grandmother. "She's a very, very good driver."

Parma and his grandmother were not injured. They hope the best for those involved, and hope the driver they say is responsible will learn from the crash.

"I am not happy with that at all," Dan Parma said. "She wasn't paying attention to what she was doing. She was doing something that she shouldn't have been doing and she caused something to happen that shouldn't have happened."

One of the men suffered a broken leg. No charges have been filed.

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