Car crashed on President Bush's lawn: A 'vintage' Mercury Cougar

There's something about old muscle cars. They always had more brawn than brains -- more power under the hood than decent steering and handling. So the guy who crashed on to the front lawn of former President George W. Bush's home in a gated Dallas community might have a good excuse: he was driving a Mercury Cougar "vintage 1970s high-performance car."So reports Reuters. The year of the car isn't given, but that's the original 1967 model of the Cougar in the photo above. The Cougar was an attempt by Ford Motor to give its Mercury division a performance contender in the new segment that it opened up with Mustang. Cougar was actually a pretty cool car for its time.
Despite sending the Secret Service into a tizzy, the driver of the car was questioned and released after agents figured out he didn't pose a threat. He claimed his accelerator because stuck. The Dallas Morning News says the errant driver was authorized to be on the street in the Preston Hollow neighborhood, on his way to see one of Bush's neighbors. At the accident took place about 8:30 p.m. Wednesday.