Posted on 10/25/2015 2:11:48 PM PDT by JustaCowgirl
The driver of the car that crashed into a crowd killing four and injuring dozens at the Oklahoma State University homecoming parade Saturday is being held on manslaughter charges at the district attorney’s request.
Adacia Avery Chambers, 25, was arrested on a complaint of driving under the influence after the crash Saturday morning.
Payne County District Attorney Laura Austin Thomas said that Chambers is now being held on four manslaughter charges, and will likely be charged with driving under the influence of drugs. Alcohol is not thought to have been involved.
Bail has not been set, Thomas said, and Chambers will likely address bond conditions before a judge Monday afternoon.
Some drugs are already legalized with legal alcohol being the biggest killer of them all by far.
Nah, pot usually causes people to drive more slowly.
“Think the drug legalization people will keep a low profile on this one.”
I will put my money on her using Xanax and Xanax is already legal as long as it is prescribed.
Don’t be surprised if Ambien is not one of her medicines. It is both a sedative and a hypnotic. Capable of effecting different people in very different ways.
Sorry, but that's baloney. Marijuana is much stronger and more unpredictable now than it was 15-20 years ago. THC levels in many edibles exceed 80%. That is tripping material. Out of control on any drug is out of control. The weed apologists will of course, disagree.
I think it is time to restrict cars that travel more then 20 MPH.
To protect the children!
Synthetic pot can have some weird effects.
“Nah, pot usually causes people to drive more slowly.”
Maybe she thought her foot was on the brake. :/
But you didn’t inhale, I hope.
They might not be able to find any significant drugs, either. Ibuprofen isn’t going to cut it.
There you go again with those annoying facts - lol.
There’s some rumors of new strains of synthetic pot they say is many times more potent than the tame stuff out there in the past.
Your desire is that it be pot.
It's not.
It's not a strawberry sundae, either. Guaranteed.
“...prescription-type drugs would not surprise me...”
If the “prescription-type drugs” in fact had been prescribed to the driver herself, and if the driver took exactly the dosage she was supposed to, then I, too, would not be surprised if “prescription-type drugs” were involved. What I doubt is that this driver has been taking a daily normal dosage of, say, Prozac.
Of course not.
My first thought. Better fit with time of day and her otherwise clean record.
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She may have been on one the “synthetic cannabis” concoctions, Spice or K2, that are out there. But those are as similar to weed as heroin is similar to a cough drop. They are lab mixed chemicals that supposedly mimic marijuana by stimulating the same brain receptors. But they are not at all the same as “pot”. In fact they’ve been concocted and marketed to fool people into thinking they’re a legal form of marijuana. Very dangerous stuff reportedly inducing heart arrhythmia, extreme hypertension, hallucinations, and at least one reported death by overdose.
I doubt she will escape responsibility, this will haunt her for the rest of her life. She sure must have taken a lot of drugs to have this affect. 1 Benadryl will put me to sleep.
“Don’t be surprised if Ambien is not one of her medicines.”
Yes, Ambien is bad and can lead to sleepwalking type behavior.
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