Barbara Doran, who was involved in last Thursday’s vehicle accident involving former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon says she is “lucky to have survived.” She stated in her Facebook post, that she was hit by McMahon, who was traveling between 80-90 mph.
Doran also notes that she and her dog are mostly fine, but that she was lucky to have kept the car in control, thus going off the road after being catapulted 100 yards.
TMZ first reported on Tuesday that the accident happened last Thursday in Connecticut, just hours before the news broke on the passing of WWE Hall of Famer Hulk Hogan.
As a result of the accident, local police issued McMahon with a misdemeanor summons for reckless driving and following too closely. He will have to appear in court next month.
Lucky to have survived a horrific car crash on the way up to catch the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard last Thursday morning. Both cars totaled. Vince McMahon @Mr. McMahon /#VinceMcMahon, former chair of WWE, hit me going 80-90mph as I drove in the right lane of the narrow Merritt Highway (built in the 1930s). I and the dog are mostly fine, but was lucky to have kept control of the car, more or less, as I shot off the road after being catapulted over 100 yards.
An unmarked state trooper had been following him as he sped in and out of cars down the highway and had just turned his lights on to pull Mcmahon over, but he was not in time. Both front wheels of McMahon’s Bentley were sheared off, and his airbags deployed, probably saving him from significant injury.
The trooper told me afterwards that McMahon saw me last minute and swerved, smashing into my left rear, but that if he had hit me full on, there might’ve been a very different ending for me.
Amazing that no other cars were hit, and that I got out of the car, hands shaking for a good twenty minutes, but otherwise seemingly unscathed (stiff neck later, etc., and full battery of hospital scans and bloodwork. Time will tell I am told.).
Oddly, Hulk Hogan, who made McMahon’s fame and fortune, died about the same time as the accident.
Photos of my car and his car here.