Odd. Pretty ratty looking garage to be parking a BMW SUV in.
Posted on 02/09/2011 2:54:05 AM PST by crosslink
Edited on 02/09/2011 6:51:12 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Several sources familiar with the ongoing investigation tell WTOP fire and police investigators believe the radiator in Turton's 2008 BMW X5 was punctured when it rolled into a workbench. The halogen headlights, which emit a bluish light and illuminate the road better than conventional headlights, stayed on after the radiator was punctured.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
In my area, any "unattended, unexpected" death is treated as suspicious until proven otherwise.
For example, if a 37 year old woman is found lying dead in the floor of her home with no obvious cause of death, it is treated as a suspicious death. Then if the autopsy finds that she died of a massive brain hemorrhage resulting from the rupture of a malformed blood vessel probably present since birth, the "case" is closed. On the other hand, if she is found to have died from a massive brain hemorrhage caused by blunt force trauma to the head, then evidence has been preserved and law enforcement has the beginnings of a case. There is no "Ooops, sorry, we messed up," no apologies to the family and the community.
It strikes me as an eminently sensible way of handling these unfortunate events. Better to have ten "suspicious deaths" that turn out to be natural causes than one case in which a murderer goes free due to law enforcement's wrong assumptions.
In this woman's case, sure it is entirely possible that she could have died from something like that unexpected unsuspected blood vessel issue. It surely stretches credulity that her vehicle would then catch fire with her in it, just at that precise moment. Then to say that her headlights ignited her antifreeze, well, please! What did she have in there, rubbing alcohol? The only antifreeze deaths I have ever heard of were from ingestion, not ignition.
My BMW’s xenon headlamps automatically position themselves below eye level of oncoming traffic based on the weight of the cargo in the vehicle. They also turn in the direction of the steering wheel around corners.
You can take my xenons FMCDH.
I have read in several places her body was burned. But in one picture I can see the head rests and what looks to be a blue tarp in front through the window. The headrests are beige. IOW, they look to be the original color. (No wonder no foul play was suspected as this was a "contolled burn" /s)
Or smash them out with a hammer. ;^)
Odd. Pretty ratty looking garage to be parking a BMW SUV in.
There's a app for that: Trapster
Evil is as evil does.
LLS
Yup, xenon lamps. The blue light scatters more, causes glare, and destroys night vision.
These headlights should be banned.
Carbeque, you see it on the side of the road every so often, sometimes the result of ungreased friction overheating an axel. This one seems more than suspicious however, and were it not for the Demonrat political involvement, I think the media would clearly be tipping their hands toward foul play.
DC SE, eh? Street cred!
HF
Thanks for the link.
Well THIS article explains away a couple of my evidently bad assertions upthread.
Earlier I thought I read that she was coming out of “a” garage. According to this link, it was HER garage.
Her early departure was also explained in this article. There was to be some kind of big announcement on that day and I suppose she needed to be in early.
She had twins and a 2 year old, how sad is this?
I dunno, it could be an accident. They’ve explained away the early departure, it was HER garage. Folks don’t normally get into murderous rages that early in the morn.
Still doesn’t explain the car catching on fire like that...I don’t care, not antifreeze, not tricycles stuck under the car....it’s like someone else said on this thread...just say the car was struck by a meteor.
DC has the exact opposite position regarding suspicious deaths than your community does. They desperately try to downgrade as many potential murders as possible, because year after year their murder rate is one of the highest in the nation. Politicians run campaigns on the lowering of this stat - so many ‘indeterminate’ deaths do not make it to the murder stat column.
HF
Her father was Asheville’s City Manager.
This must be mom ...
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/diane-westbrook/10/79b/276
... and brother ...
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/blair-westbrook/a/5a3/b0
Congrats on the new pup!
Odd driveway arrangement. And checkout the garbage. Not quite BMW territory.
Crap. I can see it now. New regulations requiring vehicles be manufactured with a device that automatically shuts the headlights off in the event of a radiator leak.
And the hundreds of billions of dollars of unrelated spending to go with it.
Theory: Maybe she was low on antifreeze and accidentally filled it up with gasoline and lawn fertilizer just before rolling into the work bench at .0000002 MPH.
Observation:
Driver’s head rest in relatively good shape.
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