Tarzana woman wins $10M after accidentally pushing button on Scratchers machine

A girl gained $10 million after buying a lottery ticket she didn’t intend to purchase at a Tarzana grocery store final yr, state lottery officers introduced Wednesday.

LaQuedra Edwards put $40 right into a Scratchers merchandising machine at a Vons in Tarzana again in November 2021. Whereas she was about to start out choosing which video games she needed, she mentioned “some impolite individual” ran into her, based on a information launch from the California Lottery, which doesn’t instantly reveal the identification of winners for privateness causes.

That individual’s bump brought on her to by accident push the improper quantity on the machine, she mentioned.

A $30 200X Scratchers ticket got here out of the machine and Edwards mentioned she had no intention of shopping for it.

“He simply ran into me, didn’t say a factor and simply walked out the door,” Edwards recalled.

She remembers being irritated, not solely as a result of the individual ran into her, but in addition as a result of she’d simply spent 75% of her lottery cash on one ticket, quite than her common collection of cheaper-priced choices.

“As soon as she was in her automotive, she began scratching the $30 ticket – the one she was actually pushed into shopping for – and found she’d simply gained the sport’s prime prize of $10 million,” the state Lottery mentioned.

“I didn’t actually consider it at first, however I obtained on the 405 Freeway and stored trying down at [the ticket], and I virtually crashed my automotive,” Edwards instructed state lottery officers. “I pulled over, checked out it time and again, scanned it with my [California Lottery mobile] app, and I simply stored considering this will’t be proper.”

Edwards mentioned she goes to make use of her winnings to purchase a home and begin a nonprofit group.

“I’m nonetheless in shock,” she added. “All I bear in mind saying as soon as I came upon how a lot I simply gained was, ‘I’m wealthy!’”

The Vons retailer the place Edwards “by accident” gained her fortune obtained a $50,000 bonus for promoting the profitable ticket.