Posted on 01/18/2006 10:44:19 AM PST by aculeus
A mother of two killed herself by driving off a ferry slipway, lighting a cigarette as she waited for her car to sink, an inquest has heard.
Miss Hogan drove off a ferry slipway in Poole Harbour Helen Hogan, 30, had argued with her boyfriend and had been drinking before she decided to take her own life on November 13, 2005, the inquest was told.
She drove off the ferry slipway at Sandbanks in Poole, Dorset, lit a cigarette and waited for up to five minutes before her car sank nose-first beneath the waves.
The Coroner's Court heard that Miss Hogan was found floating later that evening and was taken to Poole Hospital. She died of hypothermia at 2am the following morning.
John Irons saw Miss Hogan's car as it floated in the harbour. He said: "I could see the person was smoking a cigarette because I could clearly see it glowing. All the windows in the vehicle seemed to be shut and the person in the car made no attempt to get out.
"The car then quickly sank from view."
Miss Hogan's boyfriend Mark Linzner told the inquest she had woken up "niggly" and in a mood. They argued because she felt excluded from a family meal.
Earlier the inquest heard that Miss Hogan's previous boyfriend, Dean Story, had been electrocuted and killed in a work accident.
Her father, Neil McMullen, said her relationship with Dean "was a very good one and they were soulmates".
Mr Linzner, a firefighter, said Miss Hogan "had an insecurity about death and dying and she was insecure about her relationship because of what she went through with Dean."
Miss Hogan had two children by her boyfriend Russell White, before she met Mr Story. At the time of her death, her son was nine years old and daughter was six.
Before she died, Miss Hogan sent a text message to Mr Linzer, which said: "Russ will never forgive me. I hope you do. I love you."
Coroner Sheriff Payne recorded a verdict of suicide and said: "Presumably after it did go under she did escape because she was recovered from the water further away from her car."
Smoking Kills! /sarcasm
Idiot. Doesn't she know how terribly unhealthy smoking can be?
Must be the thing to do when you drive off a ferry ramp. A guy here in Washington State did the same thing while his car sank a year or so ago.
niggly?
Think I'll get on with life.
"Smoke, smoke, smoke that cigarette
"Puff, puff, puff until you smoke yourself to death.
"Tell St. Peter at the Golden Gate
"That you hate to make him wait,
"But you just gotta have another cigarette."
So she was racist on top of everything else.
I can't help but think of Uncle Rico when I hear that term.
Yep. Smoking kills!!!
I woke up niggly once, scratched it and went back to sleep
BTTT
I ussually like it when my wife wakes up "'niggly' and in a mood".
...soakin' in a hottub with m'soulmate...
in a mood, not in the mood.
LOL.. vote for pedro ;)
"fussy, fastidious, petty", according to the definition of "niggling" in my dictionary.
Just posting to change my tagline...
To quote the philosopher Joycelyn Elders, "We're all gonna die of sumthin'!"
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