Briefly

An elderly Costa Mesa resident will have her driving skills

reevaluated after she backed into her son’s truck and flipped it on its

side Monday morning. No injuries were reported.

Police found Josephine Cirino, 90, still sitting in the driver’s seat

of her steeply tilted white Cadillac at about 9:40 a.m. in the 200 block

of Columbia Drive where she lives with her son, Richard Cirino. The car

had backed in a horseshoe turn into the gray Nissan truck and turned it

on its side, said Sgt. Dave Walker of the Costa Mesa Police Department.

The two cars remained in an upside-down V shape until towers arrived.

“I turn on the key and put my foot on the pedal and all of a sudden

everything went haywire,” Josephine Cirino said, sitting calmly on a lawn

chair in front of her home. “I feel fine now. [But] of course, I don’t

know about later on.”

Richard Cirino appeared more concerned about his mother’s safety than

the wreckage.

The driver’s side of the Nissan truck, which had only 3,000 miles on

it, was crushed in, Walker said. The Cadillac was not heavily damaged.

Officer Mike Manson said Josephine Cirino will be sent for priority

reexamination to the Department of Motor Vehicles. Her license was placed

on administrative suspension.