http://www.wgntv.com/news/chi-1207-car-crash-graphic,0,4406947.graphic
According to this graphic, they weren’t going home, they are well past their home. They’re 4 or 5 miles past their house. AAnyone familiar with the area?
Can’t imagine why the detour but that nearby body of water is disconcerting.
I live about thirty miles north of the accident site. Saturday night’s conditions were not good—patchy visibility and extremely slick. (My son did a 180 at 40 mph at midnight.) The news accounts of the accident are VERY confused—one story states that the car was going BACKWARDS when it hit the pole and that both front seats were broken and lying back. Very strange, if true.
The map really makes me wonder whether it wasn’t a carjacking. On a night with poor driving conditions, I’d expect parents of young children to drive directly home rather than drive several miles out of their way. If hubby were driving under some kind of threat, he might deliberately crash the car out of desperation. If the assailant and wife survived, he continued with his assault. Do we know whether there was clearly only one set of footprints? Sad situation.