Limo driver avoided car at stop sign before crashing into parking lot

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. Swerved to avoid a car stopped at a stop sign.

Several things suggest themselves to me. One is that the brakes failed. Another is that the driver of the limo didn't really know how to drive a limo, which is probably somewhat different from driving ordinary cars. Another is that the limo driver was unfamiliar with the local roads, although it's not as though that part of NY hasn't always been hilly. I'm slightly familiar with another part of northern NYS, and steep hills are everywhere.