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.
The poor darling. For the next few decades, her life is ruined, along with those who she killed and their families. If she was my daughter, I’d feel panic, shame, shock, but mostly pain, knowing that she now belongs to the legal system. Unfortunately, since she is a rather attractive young female, it’s not out of the question that a judge goes easy on her. The extreme example would be probation after a few years of house arrest. The public would HOWL!
Sadly, we do not have such a thing
as a mentally ill but guilty verdict.
What does this have to do with the War on Some Drugs?
There are many prescription drugs that could result in this.
There are cases of driving while ‘asleep’ via Ambien.
Some drivers go out shopping, get home, return to bed. They awake looking at nine bags of merchandise wondering “Now who does all that belong to, and who put it in here while I slept?” There are many times when the FDA doesn’t do enough testing before making a drug available to the public.
Quite a few people in Tulsa recently were sent to the hospital after using some K2 synthetic pot, some near a soup kitchen, I think. It was in the news in Tulsa last week. Maybe the distribution of this batch of drugs was generally being distributed and reached her also?
Same here. And if I got high enough to plow into anyone, there wouldn’t have been much damage at three mph.
I’d had similar thoughts in the back of my head but the ones that they had to take to the hospital from that scene were all nearly catatonic with little voluntary motor function.
Possibly. But I will tell you of my own experience. I was a teenager, many decades ago, and I was with some neighborhood "friends." I was driving my first car, an old white Ford station wagon. It was probably 8:00pm and dark out. They were smoking something. On reflection, I fully believe it was pot. The windows were closed. We were going along and I felt nothing unusual. Then suddenly, I was in the middle of the playground we were passing. I had a complete black out, yet I drove the car off the road and right into the middle of that playground. Thank God it was late and no children were there. My friends were laughing up a storm. They knew what had happened. They were endangered by it. But they were laughing.
Bottom line, don't let anyone tell you there's no risk to ingesting mind-altering drugs. Everybody is different. Every specimen of the drug is different. If God hadn't mercifully spared me that night from true disaster, who knows how many lives could have been ruined, including my own. Thank God for His many mercies, none of which I deserve.
Peace,
SR
You weren’t doing it right . . .
That actually was the first theory I saw floated, but with an older adult driver mistaking the accelerator for the brake.
“spice” is not nice
Compared to cannabis and its active cannabinoid THC, the adverse effects are often much more severe and can include hypertension, tachycardia, myocardial infarction,agitation, vomiting, hallucinations, psychoses, seizures, convulsions and panic attacks. Among individuals who need emergency treatment after using synthetic cannabis, the most common symptoms are accelerated heartbeat, high blood pressure, nausea, blurred vision, hallucination and agitation. Other symptoms included epileptic seizures, acute psychosis, and heart attacks.
At least one death has been linked to overdose of synthetic cannabinoids and in Colorado three deaths in September 2013 have been investigated for being linked to synthetic cannabinoids.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_cannabis#Safety
I love your comment....I was thinking in the same lines...
“Oh that damn car! It just does whatever it wants to!”
LOL...it isn’t funny because of all the people that got hurt and killed, but really, when people talk about banning guns when ‘the damn gun just got up and shot someone’ that’s how silly it sounds...
Prayers up for all the families involved.....
LOL at the FReepers who thought it was Muslims.
I met someone who ran out of Xanax and started using Ambien (sleep drug) in its place. Delerium state, paranoid, total disconnect with reality, dangerous behavior.
Benzodiazepines and the Z-drugs for sleep (Lunesta, Ambien) are dangerously addictive for many people, and yet many internists write scrips for them any time someone has difficulty sleeping or anxiety, and often the patient’s problems become way worse because of it.
Well, I had not seen the details about K2 you related in the local online news and don’t know that much about drugs generally, which I can probably prove by babbling any more than one sentence at a time about them. Thank you for taking the time to post the information.
OK, just relating what I saw on TV. Here’s some good news out of this: I just saw on my Facebook page that the 2-year-old who died in this tragedy had his heart transplanted to an 8-month-old in Texas who was near death, saving that child’s life.
Thank you, Cowgirl! This makes more sense. Her appearance did not suggest alcohol.
however, I don't know about drugs like ambien....
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