DIAMOND BAR >> A woman was hospitalized after she ended up pinned between a car and a garage door while teaching her teenage son to drive in residential neighborhood in Diamond Bar late Thursday, officials said.
The accident took place about 8:50 p.m. in the 1100 block of Cleghorn Drive, Los Angeles County sheriff’s Lt. David Buckner said.
The woman was giving her teenage child driving lessons when the car lurched forward inside their garage, pinning the woman between the vehicle and the wall, the lieutenant said.
“She as pinned for a while between the car and the garage structure,” he said.
Paramedics treated the woman at the scene and took her to a hospital.
She suffered injuries that possibly included broken ribs, but were not believed to be life-threatening, according to Buckner.
The young student driver was extremely distraught, but unhurt, Buckner said.