Bail set at $1 million for Oklahoma woman charged with plowing into crowd

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Mon Oct 26, 2015 3:11pm EDT

Bail set at $1 million for Oklahoma woman charged with plowing into crowd

STILLWATER, OKLA. | BY LENZY KREHBIEL-BURTON

An Oklahoma judge on Monday set bond at $1 million for the woman suspected of plowing her car into a crowd at a weekend homecoming rally for Oklahoma State University, killing four and injuring nearly 50 others.

Adacia Chambers, 25, is suspected of having been driving while intoxicated when she rammed her gray Hyundai Elantra at high speed into a crowd watching Saturday's parade in Stillwater, killing three adults and a toddler, police said.

Chambers appeared by video link with Payne County District Court in her first court proceeding for the case. She has been charged with second-degree murder, which can bring between 10 years and life in prison.

She did not enter a plea and another hearing was set for Nov. 13.

Four dozen people were also injured, five of them critically, in the accident that sent shockwaves through the college town about 70 miles (112.5 km) west of Tulsa. The crash was captured on mobile-phone video and seen globally.

(Reporting by Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton; Writing by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Mohammad Zargham and Sandra Maler)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/26/us-oklahoma-crash-idUSKCN0SJ0MS20151026

[Fred Sanders]

1. Alcohol, the every day mind altering, psychedelic drug that makes folks do crazy things but must not

be mentioned much as the root cause of so much carnage by otherswise decent folks.

Drugs can do that.

How many words can the media use to substitute for so as not to mention "alcohol"?

[NaturalHigh]

6. Actually, the DA said that alcohol probably wasn't involved.

[PoliticAverse]

2. "OSU Parade Crash Suspect's Lawyer Says She May Be Mentally Ill"

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/osu-parade-crash-suspects-lawyer-says-she-may-be-mentally-n451246

[saturnsring]

3. going with the off-the-meds excuse

[Logical]

4. You have proof she is not? Or just making up stuff? nt

[Quackers]

7. Off her meds or not, she was still drunk. nt

[Logical]

8. Have they proved that yet? If so I missed it. Thought they were waiting for results. nt

[Quackers]

10. She failed a field sobriety test which means even if it wasn't alcohol, she shouldn't have been

Driving.

[GummyBearz]

15. Field sobriety tests are designed to be failed so they legally go to the next step of breath/blood

If you do a bunch of things you haven't done since you were 10 years old (stand on 1 foot with your eyes closed looking up) while a bunch of cops stand around you shining flash lights on you... chances are you wont do one the tests correctly (at least based on their judgement). Throw in the fact she wrecked a car driving into people and could have got a minor concussion or at a minimum be nervous as hell, and that is why field sobriety tests aren't treated as "proof of drinking" in court rooms.

You have to wait for the breath or blood test results before saying if alcohol or any other drug was involved.

[saturnsring]

12. not me but it sounds like the lawyer is about to

[NaturalHigh]

5. If I were in her shoes, the last thing I would want is to be out of jail right now.

She's currently Public Enemy #1 in Oklahoma.

[Logical]

9. And they all have guns! nt

[plcdude]

11. Gosh

There is much we don't know yet. There is no evidence presented yet that she was intoxicated or off her meds so all of that is speculation. I lost people who I knew and others who are severely injured. Let's wait for real evidence from a proper investigation that is taking place now.

[LisaL]

13. She is going to be charged with second degree murder. Intoxication

isn't necessary for the charges of second degree murder.

[Fred Sanders]

14. Intoxication is actually a defence for murder, the lack of intent reduces it to manslaughter.