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Pennsylvania woman blames parrot and coffee for crashing her car

  • A coffee-crazy parrot was the reason a Pa. woman crashed...

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    A coffee-crazy parrot was the reason a Pa. woman crashed into a guardrail, she tells cops.

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    It was the parrot's fault, says Pa. woman who crashed into guardrail.

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New York Daily News
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State police say a woman blames her coffee-drinking pet parrot for distracting her moments before she crashed her car into a guardrail in Pennsylvania.

Troopers from Uniontown say the 35-year-old woman was driving on a South Union Township road just before 5 p.m. Tuesday when she noticed the bird pecking at the lid of her coffee cup. The woman says she struck the guardrail when she glanced down to see what the bird was doing.

The woman told police that the bird likes to drink coffee – and they also found bird seed in a cup next to the coffee and a few feathers nearby.

A coffee-crazy parrot was the reason a Pa. woman crashed into a guardrail, she tells cops.
A coffee-crazy parrot was the reason a Pa. woman crashed into a guardrail, she tells cops.

Police say the woman broke her arm and had facial cuts because her air bagdeployed.

The bird was safely removed from the vehicle.