Friends in Weller's neighborhood of stately, cottage-style homes said he had no history of driving problems and no apparent physical or mental impairments.
"You'll never find a more alert 80s in the world," said Mary Roney, who has lived two doors from Weller and his wife for 30 years. "There's no better person in the world and no person that would be more devastated from this."
The car was extensively damaged, including a smashed front end and windshield. What appeared to be shoes were on its roof.
The injured were treated on large orange dropsheets before they were taken to hospitals by ambulance or helicopter.
The avenue was strewn with tents collapsed around their twisted metal frames. Handbags and shoes littered the scene.
A baby stroller sat in the street. Jerry Farias, who had been selling potatoes and melons at the market, said he saw a woman snatch her child from the path of the speeding car. The woman was struck, and the child suffered a head cut, but neither appeared to have life-threatening injuries, he said.
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