going out with a bang - drunk driver causes natural gas explosion

[beenben]

she crashed her pickup into a house. a cop came to try to rescue her. gas was leaking froma natural gas line and it exploded - killing the house, truck and driver. Somehow, the cop was just injured.

her BAC was 0.294%

link: star tribune story

[7ontheline]

Sucks for the cop and the owner of the home. The woman, eh, not much sympathy. I wonder how much of her charred body was left to actually get alcohol/toxicology samples.

[whiskeytown]

I love the headline - I saw it earlier when checking the weather -

Police: Woman who drove truck into home was drunk

ya think? [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

wonder how they got a BAC after the explosion - she musta not have been crispy burned, just killed by the concussion...

rb

[canis582]

RB, There was some flesh left in her shoes.

[MasterLJ]

fwiw, BAC is not a percentage.

[Quanah Parker]

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she crashed her pickup into a house. killing the house

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Poor house, I hoped it had lived a rich life until it's tragic death.

[neuroman]

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fwiw, BAC is not a percentage.

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"Blood alcohol content (BAC) or blood alcohol concentration is the concentration of alcohol in blood. It is measured either as a percentage by mass, by mass per volume, or a combination."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content

[TheBlueMonster]

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There was some flesh left in her shoes.

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like the 7th time I've heard that phrase today...

[BigBuffet]

Happened in Wisconsin--typical [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[beenben]

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fwiw, BAC is not a percentage.

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"Blood alcohol content (BAC) or blood alcohol concentration is the concentration of alcohol in blood. It is measured either as a percentage by mass, by mass per volume, or a combination."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content

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if it wasn't a percentage, she would have been embalmed (before she exploded, anyway).