Gettysburg Times: "Motorist spills hot coffee on lap, causes mishap"

published: 06/22/07

BY RICK FULTON
Times Staff Writer

A New Oxford resident suffered facial and neck injuries in an early Thursday morning one-car accident caused, the victim allegedly told police, by a wayward cup of coffee.
State police said Jerry L. Groft, Jr. was traveling west-bound on Lincolnway East when he lost control of the vehicle he was driving and collided with a parked car belonging to Joshua Brown, 224 Lincolnway East.
The force of collision then pushed Brown’s parked car into the front porch of Paul Sipling’s residence at 222 Lincolnway East.According to the report report, Groft stated the accident occurred after he “spilled his cup of coffee over his lap.”
Groft, who was subsequently transported to the Hanover Hospital by New Oxford Ambulance.
Both vehicles involved in the accident had to be towed from the scene.