Death plunge vehicle's speedometer 'pinned' at 90 mph, authorities say

Fox News ^ | April 1,2018 | Bradford Betz

[dennisw]

Thee six adoptive children must have been the cash cow/ via government payments/ for these two crazy lesbians. Though perhaps only one was this crazy and murderous.

[dennisw]

Good logic there...some of the children’s bodies carried out to sea. Holy cow!

[yukong]

I simply copied it from the FBI abstract. LEO reports are in all Caps a lot of times. Sorry for the caps...but I didn’t want to retype it.

[yukong]

I’m just lazy;)

[Texas Fossil]

I'm still convinced that computers applied to automobiles both on the control side and the privacy side are very bad ideas.

Computers are not that good in a high static environment.

Computers controlling engines are really a dumb application of technology. (I have Ford diesel 6 liter Truck that I inherited from my son that is a horror to keep running. They are notorious for those problems.)

[Right Wing Assault]

y,
all lower case is easy, too, and more readable ;-)
rwa

[ROCKLOBSTER]

They think a mini van can burn rubber?

[ROCKLOBSTER]

All immaterial.

If the car had been dropped from an airplane, engine not even running, the speedometer needle still may have bounced to a high number before the impact smashed the instrument cluster.

It indicates nothing.

[yukong]

When I was prosecuting I regularly complained to the LEO organizations I worked with asking they quit filing reports that were all caps. They refused. And to this day...many still use all caps. I have never understood it.

[wardaddy]

Plus the background context

[ROCKLOBSTER]

They think a mini van can burn rubber?

A Turbo Caravan can.

(sorry, I screwed it up the first time)

[ThunderSleeps]

Story on Fox news has some more details. Parking area stated to be 75 ft wide - less than my estimate from the pic of a little shy of 100 ft. CHP is also now saying there is evidence the vehicle stopped then accelerated off the cliff. Given the performance specs I was able to look up it wouldn't have been able to achieve my estimate of 35 mph in something less than 75 ft. (maybe, I made several simplifying assumptions) Then again, if my estimate of the parking lot distance was off then it is probable my estimate of horizontal distance to the impact point was off too - again shorter??? So they wouldn't have needed 35 mph, could've been a little less. Regardless, the 90 mph indicated is meaningless.

The real news is that evidence (scuff/traction marks in the gravel?) of a stop then a hard acceleration makes this look very deliberate. Not a case of your foot getting tangled up, or a fault with the throttle. If I was accelerating towards a cliff I'd try brakes, parking brake, ignition, throw it in park, turn...any number of driver actions to avoid sailing off a cliff. A stop then straight line acceleration is deliberate action.

[Kay]

Just saw this thread.

Here’s a link to updated article from a few hours ago which I posted on another thread. Police are thinking more that it was deliberate.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna861876

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

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