It’s always possible that this was just a tragic accident and nothing more. But I can’t blame people for speculating that there might be more to it. We’ve seen too much of what goes on behind the curtain, in recent years, to automatically dismiss such talk.
“ It’s always possible that this was just a tragic accident and nothing more. ”
True.
But why the radio silence, so to speak.
You also may not know the initial weird thing.
Her death was first reported in Chicom media. And these Chinese communist publications in China, in Chinese for China readers, reported a very detailed story that she was driving to Austin for a meeting when a truck driven by a drunk driver smashed in to her. The article reported that this driver was arrested at the science for drunk driving by Texas law enforcement.
New York Times and other media reported this subsequently, in less detail, only that she died in a car crash.
But none of it was true.
But what was true was that she did die on Chinese New Year in Texas.
How did Chinese media know this in the first place?
There was one English report of this Chicom story at a Vietnamese site.
See here. It is all total rubbish except for tha part that she died in Texas on Chinese New Year.
https://goldsport.vn/angela-chao-car-accident/
It’s always possible that this was just a tragic accident and nothing more.
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I initially wasn’t of that view but with some assumptions, I can kind of see it. We don’t know which model of Tesla she had but some are sold as a rear wheel drive and some as an all wheel drive (drive motor for the front and one for the back). None of them are front wheel drive as far as I know. She might have backed into the water and it was deep enough that the back end floated and so the wheels were not in contact with the bottom so she would have been stuck there.... and then perhaps the whole car started to float away further and further from shore to where the water was deeper. As others have pointed out, she likely couldn’t open the doors due to water pressure and perhaps the window motors failed fairly quickly due to the water coming in. Did the car have a sunroof? Did that work or not or was she just in panic mode and didn’t think about it?
Then there is the statement by Kyle Bass on X who said that “There is a surveillance video of Chao going into reverse, aggressively backing over a significant obstacle”
https://twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1760654628658520564
And in this statement, he says the car was ‘launched’... https://twitter.com/Jkylebass/status/1760654923992072561 Kyle Bass seems to be regarded as reliable so his description suggests a car that is either a) out of control for some reason or b) a high degree of intentionality.
One assumes that somebody called into emergency and so somebody saw this happen.... or did she call into emergency herself when she realized she couldn’t open either the doors or the windows?
In the picture RummyChick posted in 33, you can see the road right beside the dam. If she was leaving and was texting and was going out the driveway toward Schneider Lane, I suppose it possible that she somehow she missed the turn right before the dam ended up in the water. Was she having a vax-induced heart attack or some other type of medical emergency?
However, if the car really was backed into a pond, that certainly sheds a whole different light on things.......and if nothing else, folks who text and drive don’t at least typically do it when in reverse.