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"To the three of them, it appeared as if Norton was trying to move her car to the side of the road. But in the process, she drove over Morgan’s head, with her r

"To the three of them, it appeared as if Norton was trying to move her car to the side of the road. But in the process, she drove over Morgan’s head, with her right front tire placed squarely on top. (Norton’s attorney says that she was in a state of shock.) They screamed at Norton to back the car up, which she did, but after getting out of the car a second time, she reentered the vehicle. “I was horrified that she was trying to drive it again,” Richardson says. “I was screaming at her through the passenger-side window, which was down. She was trying to put her keys in the ignition… I was trying to reach into the sedan to grab her keys.”" I got sick reading this.

Sholmesy 9y ago
Sicker when you realise she was on the phone the entire time.
- fencepost 9y ago
  > Sicker when you realise she was on the phone the entire time. THAT may be one of the things that starts to make a difference - in the time since that event many states and municipalities have put in much tougher 'distracted driving' laws that may be enforceable in a lot of accidents and which may improve results in civil cases.
- FireBeyond 9y ago
  Yeah, as an EMS provider, entirely possible she was in shock (of the mental sense, not physiological). Also entirely possible she was being told to leave, or something. You wouldn't (or maybe you would) believe the number of times we've shown up to DUI injury accidents where a spouse has shown up "coincidentally" and is trying to ferry their drunk partner into their car before police or fire get there. In one case, while we were checking out such a drunk driver, the cop looked over and his wife was about 5 feet away, gesticulating at her chest and then a choking sound, repeatedly. He had a confused look and then started complaining of chest pain. A waste of time, but counterproductive for them both - she/they were thinking they'd lessen his blood alcohol by feigning a medical condition, but instead an ECG was run, all clear, but due to his continuing complaint he was transported by ambulance to hospital where the first thing done... was a blood draw.

Sholmesy 9y ago

Sicker when you realise she was on the phone the entire time.

fencepost 9y ago
> Sicker when you realise she was on the phone the entire time. THAT may be one of the things that starts to make a difference - in the time since that event many states and municipalities have put in much tougher 'distracted driving' laws that may be enforceable in a lot of accidents and which may improve results in civil cases.
FireBeyond 9y ago
Yeah, as an EMS provider, entirely possible she was in shock (of the mental sense, not physiological). Also entirely possible she was being told to leave, or something. You wouldn't (or maybe you would) believe the number of times we've shown up to DUI injury accidents where a spouse has shown up "coincidentally" and is trying to ferry their drunk partner into their car before police or fire get there. In one case, while we were checking out such a drunk driver, the cop looked over and his wife was about 5 feet away, gesticulating at her chest and then a choking sound, repeatedly. He had a confused look and then started complaining of chest pain. A waste of time, but counterproductive for them both - she/they were thinking they'd lessen his blood alcohol by feigning a medical condition, but instead an ECG was run, all clear, but due to his continuing complaint he was transported by ambulance to hospital where the first thing done... was a blood draw.