Driver blames spider inside car for crash

WEYMOUTH, Mass. -- An "itsy bitsy spider" caused a big crash in Weymouth.

Amber Buckner, 26, was at the corner of Princeton and Bridge streets when she was distracted by a spider inside her car.

She rear-ended the car in front of her, which went straight up onto two wheels and collapsed on top of her car.

Buckner, her passenger and Danielle Evju, the driver of the car she struck, were all taken to the hospital with minor injuries.

"She's like ‘Oh my God, is everybody all right? I was just paying attention to the spider, the spider that was on my windshield.' And that's all that she was paying attention to," Evju said.

Buckner is being charged with following too closely and with driving an unregistered vehicle.

"I think that it's absolutely ridiculous, that she should have pulled over, I think paying attention on the road, I mean these are people's lives."

Firefighters told Evju that the way her gas tank was hit, she could have been killed.

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