MVA closes Route 5 in Calaway area
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glhs837
Power with Control
Accidents are deer wandering into your path. Or a tree falling in front of you. Or a car with a blowout (although that's pretty rare these days outside cases of severe neglect) coming into your lane, those are accidents.
Accelerating away from the scene of an accident, and driving for a mile at high speed before you wreck out again, that's not an accident, nor a mistake.
(The driver of a car with a blowout should have enough skills to maintain control, IMHO, but we don't teach drivers anything like that, so its unreasonable to expect that, I suppose)
Accelerating away from the scene of an accident, and driving for a mile at high speed before you wreck out again, that's not an accident, nor a mistake.
(The driver of a car with a blowout should have enough skills to maintain control, IMHO, but we don't teach drivers anything like that, so its unreasonable to expect that, I suppose)
nomoney
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OMG, shut up already. You're not going to change any ones mind. You feel the need to protect idiots; good on ya. The majority of us here do not. We believe in the whole being responsible for your actions. So keep on keep on ranting on about Mr. saint diabetes and the only thing you're gonna get is more people telling you to stfu. The responses aren't going to change. Bye bye now
mike504
New Member
Hmmm...
I was doing a little research on line to see if... diabetes shock or coma... could cause a condition where someone was still conscious and able to semi function but like out of their mind disorientated or something like that... but while I was looking I came across this article of a guy who went into diabetic coma and caused a fatal accident and was still charged...the reason was that he was not taking care of his condition properly.. I thought that was interesting..
BBC News - Chester man caused fatal crash while in diabetic coma
I was doing a little research on line to see if... diabetes shock or coma... could cause a condition where someone was still conscious and able to semi function but like out of their mind disorientated or something like that... but while I was looking I came across this article of a guy who went into diabetic coma and caused a fatal accident and was still charged...the reason was that he was not taking care of his condition properly.. I thought that was interesting..
BBC News - Chester man caused fatal crash while in diabetic coma
itsbob
I bowl overhand
Exactly what I said earlier.
If he's been diabetic for more than a month or two, he knows his conidition, and he knows the symptoms of when things are going bad.
I really don't believe this was the case, but IF it was he should of pulled over at the first signs of distress and called for help.
Either way, he's to blame for the deaths of those two young women.
PrepH4U
New Member
OMG, shut up already. You're not going to change any ones mind. You feel the need to protect idiots; good on ya. The majority of us here do not. We believe in the whole being responsible for your actions. So keep on keep on ranting on about Mr. saint diabetes and the only thing you're gonna get is more people telling you to stfu. The responses aren't going to change. Bye bye now
I think the defenders should take up a collection for the poor driver and buy him this T-shirt to wear at all times. This would help clear up any confusion that may arise from his "condition"
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frequentflier
happy to be living
I think the defenders should take up a collection for the poor driver and buy him this T-shirt to wear at all times. This would help clear up any confusion that may arise from his "condition"
I vote for bumper stickers!
StrawberryGal
Sweet and Innocent
I was driving on RT. 5 last night and this morning. Last night, there were like 5 police cars out there and people were walking around. I guess they still had work to do that need to be finishing up. As for this morning, there are like 3 different set of tires skid marks on the road. There are still car pieces on both sides of the road. People are pulling over to pay their respect at the memorial site.
RIP to Two young ladies, and prayers for the families.
RIP to Two young ladies, and prayers for the families.
sockgirl77
Well-Known Member
Investigation is still not complete. No updates from police. Mr. Rice is still in the hospital with multiple broken bones. Because he is diabetic, he will take longer to heal. According to family members "he did not know that he hit anyone until the police told him when he awoke in the hospital".
Yeah, right.....
rwethereyet
Yeah, okay.
According to people on the scene of the accident, "he was asking for pain killers" when the emergency personnel started arriving...
desertrat
0_0
It's not unusual to not remember events just prior to or after a serious accident. Especially if you were knocked out.
glhs837
Power with Control
Yep, if you are knocked out, quite often the last 15 minutes prior or greater can be wiped, has to do with the brains process of making memories. Short term stuff is sort of written in RAM, not permanent storage. And, just like RAM, if there's a power interruption, that data is lost. Takes the body time and effort to encode memories for long term storage, and so it spools stuff, marking things out for long term, dumping the rest.
So it means nothing that he doesnt remember, it does not indicate he was in any sort of diabetic blackout state.
Post-traumatic amnesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
even mild trauma can cause an hour or more. and given he hit that Malibu, after rear ending another vehicle, with enough energy left to rip it in half, yeah, he got some trauma.
So it means nothing that he doesnt remember, it does not indicate he was in any sort of diabetic blackout state.
Post-traumatic amnesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
even mild trauma can cause an hour or more. and given he hit that Malibu, after rear ending another vehicle, with enough energy left to rip it in half, yeah, he got some trauma.
red_explorer
Well-Known Member
Choke
I am in no way condoning or defending the driver.....I will say that my husband, while in a diabetic coma a few years ago, having no clue what he was doing, (and me not knowing what the He___ was going on) choked me almost to unconsciousness, before I was able to get away. He did not have a violent bone in his body....had no clue what was happening....ended up, (after the Rescue Squad came and realized it, and brought his sugar up) waking up in a total panic because strangers were in our room. We had just gone through a death in the family after a long illness, and everyone had returned late the night before. The doctors figured it was probably the release of stress that triggered the drop, because he had been fine about 20 minutes before.
And before you criticize about the dangers of his being on the road, he had already taken himself off the road to protect others. And its not an issue anymore because he passed away.
I am in no way condoning or defending the driver.....I will say that my husband, while in a diabetic coma a few years ago, having no clue what he was doing, (and me not knowing what the He___ was going on) choked me almost to unconsciousness, before I was able to get away. He did not have a violent bone in his body....had no clue what was happening....ended up, (after the Rescue Squad came and realized it, and brought his sugar up) waking up in a total panic because strangers were in our room. We had just gone through a death in the family after a long illness, and everyone had returned late the night before. The doctors figured it was probably the release of stress that triggered the drop, because he had been fine about 20 minutes before.
And before you criticize about the dangers of his being on the road, he had already taken himself off the road to protect others. And its not an issue anymore because he passed away.
If Mr. Rice did not already have an impressive criminal record, I'd be willing to believe his illness was to blame for this incident.
Unfortunately....
Unfortunately....
red_explorer
Well-Known Member
You have a point there..... some people use illnesses or diseases as a crutch or excuse for lousy behavior.
Especially since I just looked him up on the Case search....
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