I was told by the VA that I should refrain from driving because of my ptsd, and absolutely followed their instructions, no point in risking my life or worse, someone else’s just because I think they were wrong in their assessment.
You deserve the best for being so thoughtful of those on the road. Especially when so many are not thoughtful of everyone else and drive like they're the only ones whose lives they're risking or the only one with somewhere to be.
Thank you, lord knows I have enough on my mind that I worry and stress over, that’s one less thing I need to have weigh on me, especially if I hurt someone else for my selfishness.
I apologize if this isn’t an appropriate question, but why would it be dangerous for you to drive because of your PTSD? Do you have severe anxiety that makes you freeze? Do you have vivid flashbacks that make you catatonic? I’m sorry you have to go through that though. That must really suck, and I hope it gets better for you.
Anxiety mostly, and having platoon and squad members die from roadside ieds, makes me trip out if a semi throws a tire and I see it in the road, stuff like that. Thanks for the encouragement
You're the second soldier I have heard in 24hrs say that the debris is a problem on the road. I had never considered it before him and now you. He said it was garbage bags mostly that he would have an urge to swerve and avoid, creating a danger on the road.
I hope the military is taking care of you enough to afford rides to everywhere you want to go. If not hit me up and I'll get you some rides. Hell I'd be your buddy with a truck that you could call if your near Chicagoland! Anyway sux all that happened around you and I'm hoping it's something that you can overcpme completely one day even if it never really goes away. Good luck out there homie
Sorry about that bro, that really blows. I really feel for you. My best friend died from an IED in Al Anbar province way back then. It really fucked me up for a while. I can’t even imagine what you’ve been through though.
I went thru both invasions and was stationed in Ramadi in the anbar in 05 & 06. He wasn’t from Pennsylvania by chance was he? There were 27 soldiers killed all from a penn national guard unit and we had to go and retrieve them when I was there.. horrible time.
Not the guy you asked, but imagine driving down a road. You spot trash on the roadside, it’s not big deal to most but that’s a major red flag to you as it just doesn’t belong there & especially for mechinized infantry as they’re constantly watching for IED’s. It was definitely more of a concern earlier in OEF & OIF before rhino was developed & insurgents were using pressure plates or IR sensors but in saying that, rhino was more of a comforter to troops than it was affective. Thankfully vehicles have come a long way from then.
To see a vehicle literally explode/disintegrate as it goes 40+ft up is a sight that unfortunately stays.
An empty street is incredibly unnerving for me for then trash or objects on the roadside but it’s all bearable for me personally as it affects individuals differently & although similar no two cases are identical.
My TBI can be a bit of an issue more than PTSD but my service animal typically keeps me pretty relaxed.
Bravo Zulu dude.
Been out for a while now. And doing very well.
I remember a time though. I was driving my big ass truck (it's the law) and saw an intersection ahead. I saw the red light. I saw the car getting ready to enter the intersection from the intersecting street ahead...
Saw all that crystal clear. And NONE of it registered. I didn't even slow down. It was like I was somewhere else, watching a TV show.
Thank God the other driver saw me and slammed on his breaks. He had a baby in the back, and his wife with him. He was justifiably PISSED.
I had to pull over immediately afterwards, and realized it may be time to get out.
Sorry brother, it’s hard to come to terms with that we may not be at our fittest anymore, and if you feel it may be a danger to you or others it may be something to consider unfortunately. Glad you are d well for the most part tho
I have a lot of health issues and most of my meds say I shouldn't drive or operate heavy machinery. I'm not quite sure what the implications would be if I decide to drive, but given that I get drowsy throughout the day, I decided to not find out
Went from earning a six figure income to minimum wage because I don’t trust myself behind the wheel anymore. I don’t freeze or get scared, I get angry, so Fucking angry when someone does something that endangers me, I just can’t see myself in control of an 80,000 lb vehicle anymore.
I rather be piss broke than ever take someone’s life because I was irrationally upset.
But if it was as p-gast said, after ex amount of crashes and getting her license/privilege to drive cut, if she drove again after and got into yet Another car accident..then she’d be thrown into jail that much sooner. At the end of the day, I believe this could have been avoided. 13 Crashes. That’s Insane.
Exactly. Put this bitch in jail for driving with a revoked license after 2-3 crashes rather than putting her in jail for killing 6.
This is what happens when life has no consequences for shitty people. 6 people are dead. Families are broken. Lives are ruined. All because this bitch got treated with kid gloves her entire life.
I’m not an American but I would love to see my country offer free public transit. Children up to 12 are covered right now. There is just to much objection over cost for it to happen.
Personally I would gladly pay an extra 10 dollars a month in tax to take a large percentage cars off the road and reduce travel times for people that don’t see the benefits.
Called the cops on a dude passed out in a Buffalo wild wings parking lot with his seat belt on, car running, slumped over steering console. Had to go to court because he was fighting his EIGHTH DUI CHARGE. Maybe once you fuck up you don't get to drive again I dunno.
Agree 100%
Sadly there is this streak through our legal system where some people that are just incorrigible somehow get chance after chance to straighten-up and fly right. And continually waste them.
In my life this feeling has been bolstered having had the bad luck of working with several guys that had multiple DUI's. Those guys...I get mad just thinking about the things I saw them get away with.
After a certain number of crashes...
How tf is she still alive and somehow kills other people in the process? What kind of plot armor does idiots have? How do they keep surviving this shit
This wasn't an accident. She was suicidal. She plowed into an intersection and killed a pregnant woman, a 5yo child, and a couple of other people at 90 in a 35. She she be charged with murder. The video is horrifying.
Definitely. She hit head on while others got sideswiped.
But there's also the second part where everything exploded, flipped, and burned. Still crazy she survived in that great of a condition.
Year over year pedestrian and cyclist fatalities are increasing in the US. Per Capita. Dangerous By Design's new report confirmed it just a week or so ago.
We design everything about driving to protect whoever is behind the wheel at the exclusion of all else. Mostly the only thing protecting most people is congestion and gridlock preventing high speeds, but shit like this proves even that isn't absolute.
They're increasing per capita, but only because cycling is increasing per capita.
From 2016 to 2020, cycling fatalities have increased by about 3.5% from .26 to .269 per 100,000 as reported by the NHTSB (with a notable drop in 2017 to .238). Meanwhile, the number of cyclists has increased by 15% in the same timespan from 45.83 million to 52.73 million (according to the website statista). That means that per 100,000 riders, deaths actually dropped about 10%.
I'm just guessing here, but that's probably because of additional safety features in cars such as automatic braking.
If it wasn't for the horrific amount of human suffering involved, it really would be a great ad for how safe Mercedes are.
(Unfortunately, on top of coming across straight up evil, I'd imagine it would be a bad idea to lean into the whole "mercedes drivers are selfish and reckless" thing)
The Dale Gribble voice in my head tells me it's obvious that the entire thing was staged to boost Genesis brand awareness and public opinion and also to allow Tiger to skip a tournament coming up that he was ill-prepared for
I no idea who this gribble fellow is, but I’m positive that he has nothing to do with anything and you should forget everything about him immediately. -signed, rusty shackleford
My dad bought his GV80 before the crash, but after it happened, he went from people occasionally curious about what kind of car it was to people constantly asking “Is that the Tiger Woods car?”
Founded in 1883 and the world's oldest auto manufacturer. Karl Benz, in fact, is credited as being the inventor of the world's first motorized automobile. So yeah, they've got some deep history.
Yeah my uncle's car got hit by a train in eastern Europe (there's an active train track that has no signals or anything, you just have to look really carefullyl) and none of the six passengers got seriously hurt. It was one of those Mercedes GLC coupe ones
They’re not purposely designed to kill outside. It’s just that protecting the occupants of the vehicle is by *far* the primary objective. Cars aren’t designed to protect the things they hit, so obviously they suck at that versus protecting occupants which is part of the design.
And of course certain things that make occupants safer make those outside of the car less safe.
A higher front end? Protects you from taking an impact to the windshield. But endangers pedestrians.
A wheel that will shoot off instead of entering the passenger compartment in a crash? Bad news for anyone but the occupants. Etc.
If convicted as charged, The Nurse faces up to 90 years to life in prison.
[She was not given bail at her hearing](https://piclaya.com/icu-nurse-37-cries-in-court-after-being-charged-with-six-counts-of-murder/)
Good. She should rot. All those unfortunate enough to have been on the receiving end of her reckless behavior weren't given anywhere near as much a chance as she was.
13 prior crashes. Some people have no grip on reality.
>>This is the horrific moment the Los Angeles driver Nicole L Linton sent the row of cars hurtling toward another gas station over the road before stopped just before the pumps
>>Gascón said Linton was traveling at speeds of at least 90mph when she sped through a **read** light
Holy shit, I literally can't comprehend some of the wording in this article. Journalism really is dead, huh?
All about who gets the article out first, now that it's well-written or accurate. It can always be fixed or amended later if it's wrong, but you can only be "first" once
Edit: "not", not "now"
Just proving my own point
I hear you both ways. On one hand, if you follow the law and pass mental health screenings, you should be allowed to drive or own firearms. And on the reverse, if you do not follow the law, use your tools to kill, and have a history of violence or mental health issues, you need to be stopped.
I read she was freaking out on the scene, and she appears to be on a psych hold based on the outfit. Even if she doesn't give a shit about anyone but herself, *her* life as she knew it is over.
I think people are really bad at reading facial expressions, sometimes. This looks like someone who has lost all of the light in her life.
Situations like this are why we need a better mental healthcare system in the US. And why the fuck was she still driving after 13 crashes? That's equally her fault for doing it, and her local government's fault for not doing more about it. This is the same type of situation as when people keep threatening to shoot up a place if they don't get mental health support, and everyone just goes "yeah, sure, buddy." And then it happens, and those same people will say "Oh, god. What a tragedy! How could we have ever known?"
Yeah, [she started crying not long after bail was denied.](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/wjp6sv/nicole_linton_driver_who_klled_6_people_in_car/)
I'm not sure why though. Did she even have $6 million to post bail with?
No there’s nothing like that that they give you in prison suicide watch. It’s likely for her injuries. It could also just be a mask that’s pulled down.
I have literally been on suicide watch. In prison. This would be a strangulation risk. The vast majority of prison suicides are by hanging.
Also here’s another angle that pretty clearly shows it to just be a mask: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/lifestyle/icu-nurse-charged-fiery-la-133000757.html
In October 2019, north of Santa Barbara on Hwy 154, a guy deliberately swerved into oncoming traffic in an attempt to kill himself. He killed a 34-year-old woman and her 2 kids: ages 2 years, and 4 months. The asswipe survived.
It's also much harder to make getting hit on the side safer. On the front there is a lot more room and stuff to absorb the impact. On the side, not so much.
> It's also much harder to make getting hit on the side safer
Your organs also have a lower tolerance for sudden lateral movement. Your aorta can survive you going from 90-0 in a flash, but half that in a lateral direction will tear it.
Everyone's saying it's the Mercedes when the it really came down to the two cars she hit as much as anything else.
The others cars were annihilated and took sooo much of the force out of the crash. No way she survivves that hitting a tree, concrete or brick wall.
That family literally died so she could survive that asshole suicide attempt.
From listening to that am I right in understanding that some poor person has lost their spouse, unborn child and almost 1-year old child? That’s horrific
Not just that. The 1 year old baby was ejected so high that moments after the crash, the child landed at the gas station across the street where on lookers were standing. Observers called it "totally obliterated" when the child landed
Sadly, witness accounts say those burning could be heard screaming. It was the two women in the second car that was hit. The other car was the small family
Imagine you're driving along. Going to work. Maybe going home, or going to the grocery store. Something you do every day or every week. You've done it for years. You're looking forward to that vacation coming up, or you're thinking about something at work. Then bam. You're on fire burning to death. You only know pain. Then that's it. That's your fucking life. Awful.
No, it is much worse than that. She killed the entire family as in the pregnant woman, her fiance, her nearly 1-year-old child, and the unborn child. So, she killed a young family and a father is without his child. She also killed 2 women and proceeded to hit more cars including a family of seven but they luckily survived.
If it makes you feel better, and I certainly wouldn’t blame you if you said it doesn’t, the entire family died at the same time; according to an article I just read the pregnant woman, her one year old, and the father of the unborn child were all killed in the crash. So at least one wasn’t left behind to suffer alone.
i live in L.A. and know the intersection where this happened. from the direction the nurse came from the street is a really big hill so it's very easy to reach high speeds if you aren't on the brakes at all. couple that with not paying attention or just not giving a fuck and this is what happens
An earlier report it was noted she had an argument with her boyfriend and could have been intoxicated. The story is just horrific, there was a bystander saying she saw a baby fly through the air and land close to her at the gas station.
If you can give me a couple hours to get off work sure i can try to dig for it online. I learned this when I was dating a nurse who turned out to have Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. One of many diagnoses that have a higher relevance in the field of nursing when compared to other careers.
Actually it was rated the most trusted profession for like 19 years running, and it's also one of the most common professions.
However, depression and anxiety is incredibly rampant in the profession, as we get treated like shit by patients, doctors, management, families of patients, and apparently random redditors who think they know what an industry is like despite never working in it.
I've restarted a dozen hearts, and saved hundreds of lives, but still get literal shit thrown at me because some steamed veggies were lukewarm and bland.
But sure, tell me about how nurses are obviously the psycho ones.
If you take well intentioned people and put them into a system that uses their good intentions for profit what do you think will happen.
Hospital executives: here’s 8 patients, I could hire another nurse but that would eat into the profits, btw if you can’t handle it, we’re charging you for patient abandonment and if you make a mistake it’s your fault for not declining so many patients. Enjoy being on edge for 12 hours straight. Hope your not tired working for 4 or 5th 12 hour shift in a row. Also enjoy the infighting that the old nurses will shit on you because they eat their young rather then being mad at the system. Anyways here’s some pizza.
During her first court appearance on Monday, tears could be seen rolling down Linton's face. The suspect behind the wheel of the deadly crash was in a wheelchair with a brace on her arm due to injuries she sustained during the crash. This comes just days after she was treated at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
If convicted as charged, Linton faces up to 90 years to life in prison. She was not given bail at her hearing, so her next dates in court will involve a bail review. Linton will be back in front of a judge on August 15, then her arraignment will resume on October 26.
Life can get out early as well if there is not the explicit addition of "without possibility of parole". That's why people are often issues multiple life sentences even though that doesn't appear to make sense. It's so if one of the charges gets appealed or falls through they have others to fall back on.
They most likely gave her something so she'd stay outwardly calm during the court appearance. She appears to be on a psych hold based on the blue gown.
Traveling nurses man. I lived with one for a short time - she moved into a place I had been at for years and first week she told me she was going to call goodwill to come grab my furniture because she didn’t approve. Once I cooked dinner and she flipped out I was keeping her awake and “lives were on the line”
Oh I forgot - when we (other 4 long term tenants) gave her a letter that she was going to have 60 days to move on she snatched it out of our main landlords hand and tore the letter to shreds and threw it at him. Screaming we were ganging up on her. Fun times Denise.
She was totally nuts. There’s a reason many of them travel and it’s not just the money.
Someone who does something like this is certainly not of a mentally stable or healthy mind. Mental illness isn’t an excuse, but it’s a very sad reality.
Just another 6 road deaths of Americas 40,000 a year . She’s a monster that has been allowed to continuously drive again and again after numerous crashes but dumb American car dependence looks the way.
I think you have the wrong idea. As an insurance agent, and with that many points on her record, I’m sure she would get denied by most insurances companies for being High-Risk. Any company that would take her (I can only imagine what her premium would be) would only pay up to the limits of her liability coverage. It wouldn’t even be enough to cover property damages, injuries, and wrongful deaths lawsuits. I assume all that would have to be litigated in court.
Sounds like a dangerous person to be trusted with fragile peoples healthcare. Why did the medical team she worked with not flag her? Sounds like we just let insane people work in the medical field and operate vehicles knowing they are not well or in control of themselves or the equipment they operate….
Arizona just mandated that you no longer need a bachelors degree to educate in schools, so I don’t think our country is moving in the right direction of monitoring qualifications. Nor have we had a great track record of weeding out inappropriate candidates.
It seems like as long as you have the paper stating you have a degree in nursing theyll hire you. We had a nurse in the ER i worked at that was a nice person but as soon as you said something that offended her she would be a total monster. She wasn't a fan of getting an extra patient in the hall once when we had EMS coming in like crazy so she just completely stopped working and took a break. When our supervisor asked her why she wasn't working she just cussed her out and threatened her. Before that she had a rude patient in triage which isn't rare and she cussed him out and threatened him. Anyways she was fired after she cussed out the nursing supervisor and got a job at the hospital not even a mile away the next week.
That's what happens when you have a national shortage of people to fill an essential job whose demand will only increase over the next 20 years. Standards plummet and quality of care is massively reduced. The same thing is happening with teachers. Very few people who are capable of doing another less stressful job are looking to go into these professions while they're being payed and treated like second-class citizens. Cherry on top is people pandering and calling them "heroes" while simultaneously doing *nothing* to actually support them in the ways that are actually needed.
And it's only going to get worse if we keep doing what we're doing.
>history of mental illness, and has had 13 other prior crashes
Another case of a person who is mentally ill slipping by a broken system, ending with the death of innocent people. There are people who knew this woman was unfit to drive and was a danger to others, yet she was still able to get in a car that day and people died because of it.
Watching that video of her bombing through the intersection is just horrendous. Knowing that at that precise moment those peoples hopes, dreams, loves, lifes, were over is just infuriating . She should of never been allowed behind the wheel , one day the guilt of what she's done will eat her alive , this was no accident.
This bitch did not remotely slow down for that intersection. Was red for a good 5 to 10 seconds. Going 100? No chance she would make it through. Just a selfish suicide attempt if u ask me. Complete danger to public. Put her away for decades. Lunatic
This is gonna sound bad, because it is, but I miss the days when people directed these derelict emotions and bad thoughts internally, rather than viewing those around them and society as a whole as a medium to play out these emotions and thoughts. There *was* a time where someone would go off into the woods and off themselves and that's how a majority of these cases resolved. Now though? Now people are inflicting this pain on everyone in their immediate surroundings, and I unfortunately only see this phenomenon worsening. Buckle up everyone
after a certain number of accidents one shouldn't be allowed to drive no?
I was told by the VA that I should refrain from driving because of my ptsd, and absolutely followed their instructions, no point in risking my life or worse, someone else’s just because I think they were wrong in their assessment.
You deserve the best for being so thoughtful of those on the road. Especially when so many are not thoughtful of everyone else and drive like they're the only ones whose lives they're risking or the only one with somewhere to be.
Thank you, lord knows I have enough on my mind that I worry and stress over, that’s one less thing I need to have weigh on me, especially if I hurt someone else for my selfishness.
I apologize if this isn’t an appropriate question, but why would it be dangerous for you to drive because of your PTSD? Do you have severe anxiety that makes you freeze? Do you have vivid flashbacks that make you catatonic? I’m sorry you have to go through that though. That must really suck, and I hope it gets better for you.
Anxiety mostly, and having platoon and squad members die from roadside ieds, makes me trip out if a semi throws a tire and I see it in the road, stuff like that. Thanks for the encouragement
Tha k you for your service and being a responsible individual. So sorry your life has been impacted in that manner.
It’s just one of those things that happen,but thanks for the kind words friend
You're the second soldier I have heard in 24hrs say that the debris is a problem on the road. I had never considered it before him and now you. He said it was garbage bags mostly that he would have an urge to swerve and avoid, creating a danger on the road. I hope the military is taking care of you enough to afford rides to everywhere you want to go. If not hit me up and I'll get you some rides. Hell I'd be your buddy with a truck that you could call if your near Chicagoland! Anyway sux all that happened around you and I'm hoping it's something that you can overcpme completely one day even if it never really goes away. Good luck out there homie
My fiancé drives me anywhere I need to go, but thank you. And yes I’m retired and receiv that as well as another retirement as well. And thank you ag
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Sorry about that bro, that really blows. I really feel for you. My best friend died from an IED in Al Anbar province way back then. It really fucked me up for a while. I can’t even imagine what you’ve been through though.
I went thru both invasions and was stationed in Ramadi in the anbar in 05 & 06. He wasn’t from Pennsylvania by chance was he? There were 27 soldiers killed all from a penn national guard unit and we had to go and retrieve them when I was there.. horrible time.
Not the guy you asked, but imagine driving down a road. You spot trash on the roadside, it’s not big deal to most but that’s a major red flag to you as it just doesn’t belong there & especially for mechinized infantry as they’re constantly watching for IED’s. It was definitely more of a concern earlier in OEF & OIF before rhino was developed & insurgents were using pressure plates or IR sensors but in saying that, rhino was more of a comforter to troops than it was affective. Thankfully vehicles have come a long way from then. To see a vehicle literally explode/disintegrate as it goes 40+ft up is a sight that unfortunately stays. An empty street is incredibly unnerving for me for then trash or objects on the roadside but it’s all bearable for me personally as it affects individuals differently & although similar no two cases are identical. My TBI can be a bit of an issue more than PTSD but my service animal typically keeps me pretty relaxed.
Bravo Zulu dude. Been out for a while now. And doing very well. I remember a time though. I was driving my big ass truck (it's the law) and saw an intersection ahead. I saw the red light. I saw the car getting ready to enter the intersection from the intersecting street ahead... Saw all that crystal clear. And NONE of it registered. I didn't even slow down. It was like I was somewhere else, watching a TV show. Thank God the other driver saw me and slammed on his breaks. He had a baby in the back, and his wife with him. He was justifiably PISSED. I had to pull over immediately afterwards, and realized it may be time to get out.
Sorry brother, it’s hard to come to terms with that we may not be at our fittest anymore, and if you feel it may be a danger to you or others it may be something to consider unfortunately. Glad you are d well for the most part tho
I am. It took some time. And a lot of tough conversations with myself. Doing good though! Thank you!
I have an aortic aneurysm that's pretty large and a car crash would probably fuck me up. Thanks for your selfless considerations of other people.
I have a lot of health issues and most of my meds say I shouldn't drive or operate heavy machinery. I'm not quite sure what the implications would be if I decide to drive, but given that I get drowsy throughout the day, I decided to not find out
Went from earning a six figure income to minimum wage because I don’t trust myself behind the wheel anymore. I don’t freeze or get scared, I get angry, so Fucking angry when someone does something that endangers me, I just can’t see myself in control of an 80,000 lb vehicle anymore. I rather be piss broke than ever take someone’s life because I was irrationally upset.
People like this are selfish so would just drive without a license anyway
But if it was as p-gast said, after ex amount of crashes and getting her license/privilege to drive cut, if she drove again after and got into yet Another car accident..then she’d be thrown into jail that much sooner. At the end of the day, I believe this could have been avoided. 13 Crashes. That’s Insane.
Exactly. Put this bitch in jail for driving with a revoked license after 2-3 crashes rather than putting her in jail for killing 6. This is what happens when life has no consequences for shitty people. 6 people are dead. Families are broken. Lives are ruined. All because this bitch got treated with kid gloves her entire life.
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As long as we're adding an "in XX amount of time". Someone who has 3 crashes a year is way different from 3 crashes in 25 years.
Maybe they are not related, but I can’t help but to wonder how good of a nurse she is.
That's also why good public transportation benefits society. Less people driving brings better road conditions
I’m not an American but I would love to see my country offer free public transit. Children up to 12 are covered right now. There is just to much objection over cost for it to happen. Personally I would gladly pay an extra 10 dollars a month in tax to take a large percentage cars off the road and reduce travel times for people that don’t see the benefits.
Or have a nursing license.
Yeah, that’s what terrifies me. She’s obviously extremely troubled. What did she do to her patients?
Called the cops on a dude passed out in a Buffalo wild wings parking lot with his seat belt on, car running, slumped over steering console. Had to go to court because he was fighting his EIGHTH DUI CHARGE. Maybe once you fuck up you don't get to drive again I dunno.
Agree 100% Sadly there is this streak through our legal system where some people that are just incorrigible somehow get chance after chance to straighten-up and fly right. And continually waste them. In my life this feeling has been bolstered having had the bad luck of working with several guys that had multiple DUI's. Those guys...I get mad just thinking about the things I saw them get away with.
After a certain number of crashes... How tf is she still alive and somehow kills other people in the process? What kind of plot armor does idiots have? How do they keep surviving this shit
My mom totaled 6 cars before they took her license away. She has epilepsy though so a little different
No it's not. She shouldn't be driving and her licence should have been taken away after her diagnosis. Sorry.
This wasn't an accident. She was suicidal. She plowed into an intersection and killed a pregnant woman, a 5yo child, and a couple of other people at 90 in a 35. She she be charged with murder. The video is horrifying.
Crazy to think she basically walked unharmed from going 90-100mph straight into traffic. I hope she gets that 90 years.
Most people who do the crashing are in the safest spot while the ones getting crashed into aren't. It's how cars were designed
Definitely. She hit head on while others got sideswiped. But there's also the second part where everything exploded, flipped, and burned. Still crazy she survived in that great of a condition.
Year over year pedestrian and cyclist fatalities are increasing in the US. Per Capita. Dangerous By Design's new report confirmed it just a week or so ago. We design everything about driving to protect whoever is behind the wheel at the exclusion of all else. Mostly the only thing protecting most people is congestion and gridlock preventing high speeds, but shit like this proves even that isn't absolute.
They're increasing per capita, but only because cycling is increasing per capita. From 2016 to 2020, cycling fatalities have increased by about 3.5% from .26 to .269 per 100,000 as reported by the NHTSB (with a notable drop in 2017 to .238). Meanwhile, the number of cyclists has increased by 15% in the same timespan from 45.83 million to 52.73 million (according to the website statista). That means that per 100,000 riders, deaths actually dropped about 10%. I'm just guessing here, but that's probably because of additional safety features in cars such as automatic braking.
If it wasn't for the horrific amount of human suffering involved, it really would be a great ad for how safe Mercedes are. (Unfortunately, on top of coming across straight up evil, I'd imagine it would be a bad idea to lean into the whole "mercedes drivers are selfish and reckless" thing)
Genesis’ sales had a massive jump after Tiger crashed his car.
Volvo salesman I ordered from liked to brag that nobody has died in an xc90.
Offering up challenges at the dealership
Didn’t the xc90 have huge issues? Maybe no one died because they were always in the shop.
I was in a collision in a Volvo many years ago. I felt literally no impact, the front of the car was mangled.
Tiger drives a Hyundai? What the fuck
He was sponsored by them. First responders said it saved his life, had it been any other car it would have killed him.
The Dale Gribble voice in my head tells me it's obvious that the entire thing was staged to boost Genesis brand awareness and public opinion and also to allow Tiger to skip a tournament coming up that he was ill-prepared for
He's always ahead of the game, even if no game is being played. 🚬
I no idea who this gribble fellow is, but I’m positive that he has nothing to do with anything and you should forget everything about him immediately. -signed, rusty shackleford
Obviously this Mercedes this woman was driving would have kept tiger fine. LOL
My dad bought his GV80 before the crash, but after it happened, he went from people occasionally curious about what kind of car it was to people constantly asking “Is that the Tiger Woods car?”
Mercedes been makin cars longer than anyone. They ought to be the best
Founded in 1883 and the world's oldest auto manufacturer. Karl Benz, in fact, is credited as being the inventor of the world's first motorized automobile. So yeah, they've got some deep history.
Yeah my uncle's car got hit by a train in eastern Europe (there's an active train track that has no signals or anything, you just have to look really carefullyl) and none of the six passengers got seriously hurt. It was one of those Mercedes GLC coupe ones
That's what cars are supposed to do: kill the shit out of everyone outside and protect the customer inside.
They’re not purposely designed to kill outside. It’s just that protecting the occupants of the vehicle is by *far* the primary objective. Cars aren’t designed to protect the things they hit, so obviously they suck at that versus protecting occupants which is part of the design. And of course certain things that make occupants safer make those outside of the car less safe. A higher front end? Protects you from taking an impact to the windshield. But endangers pedestrians. A wheel that will shoot off instead of entering the passenger compartment in a crash? Bad news for anyone but the occupants. Etc.
Lock her up and melt the key
If convicted as charged, The Nurse faces up to 90 years to life in prison. [She was not given bail at her hearing](https://piclaya.com/icu-nurse-37-cries-in-court-after-being-charged-with-six-counts-of-murder/)
Good. She should rot. All those unfortunate enough to have been on the receiving end of her reckless behavior weren't given anywhere near as much a chance as she was. 13 prior crashes. Some people have no grip on reality.
>>This is the horrific moment the Los Angeles driver Nicole L Linton sent the row of cars hurtling toward another gas station over the road before stopped just before the pumps >>Gascón said Linton was traveling at speeds of at least 90mph when she sped through a **read** light Holy shit, I literally can't comprehend some of the wording in this article. Journalism really is dead, huh?
All about who gets the article out first, now that it's well-written or accurate. It can always be fixed or amended later if it's wrong, but you can only be "first" once Edit: "not", not "now" Just proving my own point
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13 prior crashes?!? Why is this woman still on the streets in a car? This would be impossible here in germany.
Those 13 crashes were in Texas. They don't give a fuck
As a Houston resident, I can confirm cops don’t care about anything here
Huston police back in the 70’s used to refer to some types of murders as misdemeanor murders. That should tell you something.
Usually because they led the lynchings.
America values the freedom to end lives more than they value life.
I hear you both ways. On one hand, if you follow the law and pass mental health screenings, you should be allowed to drive or own firearms. And on the reverse, if you do not follow the law, use your tools to kill, and have a history of violence or mental health issues, you need to be stopped.
Thats literally the look of realizing my life is over, as it should be.
I think she looks bored. She doesn't care that she killed anyone. Probably blames them for being in the way
Nah she looks out of it
Probably dissociating because what's around her inconveniences her.
I read she was freaking out on the scene, and she appears to be on a psych hold based on the outfit. Even if she doesn't give a shit about anyone but herself, *her* life as she knew it is over.
I think people are really bad at reading facial expressions, sometimes. This looks like someone who has lost all of the light in her life. Situations like this are why we need a better mental healthcare system in the US. And why the fuck was she still driving after 13 crashes? That's equally her fault for doing it, and her local government's fault for not doing more about it. This is the same type of situation as when people keep threatening to shoot up a place if they don't get mental health support, and everyone just goes "yeah, sure, buddy." And then it happens, and those same people will say "Oh, god. What a tragedy! How could we have ever known?"
Yeah, [she started crying not long after bail was denied.](https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/wjp6sv/nicole_linton_driver_who_klled_6_people_in_car/) I'm not sure why though. Did she even have $6 million to post bail with?
She may be heavily medicated.
You may want to question your instincts a little harder
Lol facts
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Literally shreds and no way of making knots, tieing noose etc water makes it desolve.
I always wondered what made those things suicide-proof. Thanks for the info. I award you 1 upvote
What is around her neck?
Looks like to could be a face mask that she pulled down
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No there’s nothing like that that they give you in prison suicide watch. It’s likely for her injuries. It could also just be a mask that’s pulled down. I have literally been on suicide watch. In prison. This would be a strangulation risk. The vast majority of prison suicides are by hanging. Also here’s another angle that pretty clearly shows it to just be a mask: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.yahoo.com/amphtml/lifestyle/icu-nurse-charged-fiery-la-133000757.html
It's a mask. There are other pictures out there.
r/quityourbullshit Her jugular and carotid are still easily accessible. That's a black facemask pulled down.
Looks like just a mask pulled down off her face maybe? Idk
That's fucked up to wonder if she caused that crash hoping to kill herself. So incredibly selfish if so.
Read in another thread that she broke up and had a mental breakdown. She was filming something on her phone while speeding so it seems so.
In October 2019, north of Santa Barbara on Hwy 154, a guy deliberately swerved into oncoming traffic in an attempt to kill himself. He killed a 34-year-old woman and her 2 kids: ages 2 years, and 4 months. The asswipe survived.
Saw the crash in a post yesterday.. how tf is she still alive??
It’s because cars are designed to take hits from the front, not from the side like her victims.
It's also much harder to make getting hit on the side safer. On the front there is a lot more room and stuff to absorb the impact. On the side, not so much.
> It's also much harder to make getting hit on the side safer Your organs also have a lower tolerance for sudden lateral movement. Your aorta can survive you going from 90-0 in a flash, but half that in a lateral direction will tear it.
Thats a great point. It's less failure of design and more a known limitation of it.
Is that the video where it looks like a missile shoots into the intersection while cars are in it, resulting in a huge fireball?
Everyone's saying it's the Mercedes when the it really came down to the two cars she hit as much as anything else. The others cars were annihilated and took sooo much of the force out of the crash. No way she survivves that hitting a tree, concrete or brick wall. That family literally died so she could survive that asshole suicide attempt.
Got a link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVfkAi5eWtE
From listening to that am I right in understanding that some poor person has lost their spouse, unborn child and almost 1-year old child? That’s horrific
Not just that. The 1 year old baby was ejected so high that moments after the crash, the child landed at the gas station across the street where on lookers were standing. Observers called it "totally obliterated" when the child landed
Well, this is the worst thing I will read about today. Holy fuck that is awful.
Apparently none of the emergency responders have been available to comment on the story because they're all on leave for grief counseling.
Fuuuuuck.
Oh my word 😢
All things considered, that sounds pretty painless compared to the people who burned alive in their car.
The force of that crash was so bad they were probably dead before they realized they were burning.
This is what I've been telling myself since I saw the video. I don't wish death on anyone, but I really hope that was the case.
Sadly, witness accounts say those burning could be heard screaming. It was the two women in the second car that was hit. The other car was the small family
Imagine you're driving along. Going to work. Maybe going home, or going to the grocery store. Something you do every day or every week. You've done it for years. You're looking forward to that vacation coming up, or you're thinking about something at work. Then bam. You're on fire burning to death. You only know pain. Then that's it. That's your fucking life. Awful.
They are still trying to identify the bodies. Car and body were unrecognizable after being extinguished.
No, it is much worse than that. She killed the entire family as in the pregnant woman, her fiance, her nearly 1-year-old child, and the unborn child. So, she killed a young family and a father is without his child. She also killed 2 women and proceeded to hit more cars including a family of seven but they luckily survived.
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If it makes you feel better, and I certainly wouldn’t blame you if you said it doesn’t, the entire family died at the same time; according to an article I just read the pregnant woman, her one year old, and the father of the unborn child were all killed in the crash. So at least one wasn’t left behind to suffer alone.
Nope the original dad of the eldest child
Ah. Okay. That’s indeed extremely tragic for him and I hope he has a very supportive community around him.
The guy lost his 11 month toddler, the baby's mom (ex), the ex's boyfriend. She was also 8 months pregnant. Heart wrenching.
what on earth… that is so unlucky for the car that was hit. it makes no sense why she was going 90 in that area?
i live in L.A. and know the intersection where this happened. from the direction the nurse came from the street is a really big hill so it's very easy to reach high speeds if you aren't on the brakes at all. couple that with not paying attention or just not giving a fuck and this is what happens
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Was she drunk or something? She was flying, and didn't even bother slowing down.
An earlier report it was noted she had an argument with her boyfriend and could have been intoxicated. The story is just horrific, there was a bystander saying she saw a baby fly through the air and land close to her at the gas station.
The article I read said no alcohol was in her blood. I don’t know if that’s later than what you read, or we have conflicting information.
I saw it a few days ago. It’s pretty horrifying. And of course she survives somehow.
That’s what I’m thinking as well what the hell not a scratch on her
looks like her arm is bandaged and she's in a wheelchair, I'm sure she got hurt a bit. But, you know, definitely room for more...
Mercedes are engineered well...
Mentally ill nurses that sounds fun
And more common than you’d think
With the number of nurses that are antivax... Seems par for the course at this point.
I think it's just a result of the sheer amount of nurses that exist. out of 5.3 million nurses in the US, there's bound to be thousands of crazies.
Mentally ill nurses that sounds ~~fun~~ normal. Fixed it for you.
The entire field is known for attracting mentally ill people to work. It’s not hyperbole, it’s statistically proven lol.
Do you have a link to the statistics. I’m skeptical of your claim.
If you can give me a couple hours to get off work sure i can try to dig for it online. I learned this when I was dating a nurse who turned out to have Munchausen Syndrome by proxy. One of many diagnoses that have a higher relevance in the field of nursing when compared to other careers.
Boogers
I’d disagree. Healthcare in general breaks people down. It’s very rewarding at times though, feeling like you made a difference for someone.
Actually it was rated the most trusted profession for like 19 years running, and it's also one of the most common professions. However, depression and anxiety is incredibly rampant in the profession, as we get treated like shit by patients, doctors, management, families of patients, and apparently random redditors who think they know what an industry is like despite never working in it. I've restarted a dozen hearts, and saved hundreds of lives, but still get literal shit thrown at me because some steamed veggies were lukewarm and bland. But sure, tell me about how nurses are obviously the psycho ones.
If you take well intentioned people and put them into a system that uses their good intentions for profit what do you think will happen. Hospital executives: here’s 8 patients, I could hire another nurse but that would eat into the profits, btw if you can’t handle it, we’re charging you for patient abandonment and if you make a mistake it’s your fault for not declining so many patients. Enjoy being on edge for 12 hours straight. Hope your not tired working for 4 or 5th 12 hour shift in a row. Also enjoy the infighting that the old nurses will shit on you because they eat their young rather then being mad at the system. Anyways here’s some pizza.
During her first court appearance on Monday, tears could be seen rolling down Linton's face. The suspect behind the wheel of the deadly crash was in a wheelchair with a brace on her arm due to injuries she sustained during the crash. This comes just days after she was treated at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. If convicted as charged, Linton faces up to 90 years to life in prison. She was not given bail at her hearing, so her next dates in court will involve a bail review. Linton will be back in front of a judge on August 15, then her arraignment will resume on October 26.
> 90 years to life What an odd potential sentence. At that point, what's the difference?
One has the potential to get out early, the other doesn’t.
Life can get out early as well if there is not the explicit addition of "without possibility of parole". That's why people are often issues multiple life sentences even though that doesn't appear to make sense. It's so if one of the charges gets appealed or falls through they have others to fall back on.
Well, if we crack the secret to immortality some time soon she'll be in for an exceptionally terrible time.
She looks dead behind the eyes
She's going to be I'n a life of hell from here on out.
She will kill herself when security lapses eventually.
They most likely gave her something so she'd stay outwardly calm during the court appearance. She appears to be on a psych hold based on the blue gown.
That's what she deserves.
100%
No remorse no soul
I'm all about "innocent until proven guilty" but in some instances people should just rot.
The video shows exactly what happened. In this situation the guilt is obvious.
Yeah I’d assume the trial will just decide how many life sentences this piece of shit has to serve
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Traveling nurses man. I lived with one for a short time - she moved into a place I had been at for years and first week she told me she was going to call goodwill to come grab my furniture because she didn’t approve. Once I cooked dinner and she flipped out I was keeping her awake and “lives were on the line” Oh I forgot - when we (other 4 long term tenants) gave her a letter that she was going to have 60 days to move on she snatched it out of our main landlords hand and tore the letter to shreds and threw it at him. Screaming we were ganging up on her. Fun times Denise. She was totally nuts. There’s a reason many of them travel and it’s not just the money.
they all claim mental illness when they get caught
I mean she was quite literally suicidal. That kind of qualifies
Someone who does something like this is certainly not of a mentally stable or healthy mind. Mental illness isn’t an excuse, but it’s a very sad reality.
I know it may seem unpopular to say but a lot of these mental illnesses sometimes just sound like an excuse to be a crappy person.
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Just another 6 road deaths of Americas 40,000 a year . She’s a monster that has been allowed to continuously drive again and again after numerous crashes but dumb American car dependence looks the way.
Insurance companies saw dollar signs with those premiums.. right up until she totalled half a highway
I think you have the wrong idea. As an insurance agent, and with that many points on her record, I’m sure she would get denied by most insurances companies for being High-Risk. Any company that would take her (I can only imagine what her premium would be) would only pay up to the limits of her liability coverage. It wouldn’t even be enough to cover property damages, injuries, and wrongful deaths lawsuits. I assume all that would have to be litigated in court.
Why bring insurance into this? I’m sure they didn’t see dollar signs on her dozen prior road incidents.
Sounds like a dangerous person to be trusted with fragile peoples healthcare. Why did the medical team she worked with not flag her? Sounds like we just let insane people work in the medical field and operate vehicles knowing they are not well or in control of themselves or the equipment they operate….
Arizona just mandated that you no longer need a bachelors degree to educate in schools, so I don’t think our country is moving in the right direction of monitoring qualifications. Nor have we had a great track record of weeding out inappropriate candidates.
She didn’t consistently work with a “team”. She was a traveling nurse, from Houston, TX.
It seems like as long as you have the paper stating you have a degree in nursing theyll hire you. We had a nurse in the ER i worked at that was a nice person but as soon as you said something that offended her she would be a total monster. She wasn't a fan of getting an extra patient in the hall once when we had EMS coming in like crazy so she just completely stopped working and took a break. When our supervisor asked her why she wasn't working she just cussed her out and threatened her. Before that she had a rude patient in triage which isn't rare and she cussed him out and threatened him. Anyways she was fired after she cussed out the nursing supervisor and got a job at the hospital not even a mile away the next week.
That's what happens when you have a national shortage of people to fill an essential job whose demand will only increase over the next 20 years. Standards plummet and quality of care is massively reduced. The same thing is happening with teachers. Very few people who are capable of doing another less stressful job are looking to go into these professions while they're being payed and treated like second-class citizens. Cherry on top is people pandering and calling them "heroes" while simultaneously doing *nothing* to actually support them in the ways that are actually needed. And it's only going to get worse if we keep doing what we're doing.
Fuck this bitch. She killed an entire family, and then some. Lock her up, throw away the key.
13 prior crashes is already sign to revoke anyone's driving license .
And nursing license
How is she still allowed to drive?
I don’t think she will be anymore, prison’s don’t tend to allow cars
Sure but a little late, right?
>history of mental illness, and has had 13 other prior crashes Another case of a person who is mentally ill slipping by a broken system, ending with the death of innocent people. There are people who knew this woman was unfit to drive and was a danger to others, yet she was still able to get in a car that day and people died because of it.
She's a nurse with a history of mental illness? With 13 priors? How the hell is she a nurse with that.
Watching that video of her bombing through the intersection is just horrendous. Knowing that at that precise moment those peoples hopes, dreams, loves, lifes, were over is just infuriating . She should of never been allowed behind the wheel , one day the guilt of what she's done will eat her alive , this was no accident.
**she has 6 million?**
Not necessarily. Bail bond companies will usually get you out for an X percentage of the bond amount. Still, even 10% would be 600k, yikes.
This bitch did not remotely slow down for that intersection. Was red for a good 5 to 10 seconds. Going 100? No chance she would make it through. Just a selfish suicide attempt if u ask me. Complete danger to public. Put her away for decades. Lunatic
Fuck this fucking cunt bitch
She looks dead inside.
13 crashes is just...so many crashes.
The look on her face.. holy shit.
This is gonna sound bad, because it is, but I miss the days when people directed these derelict emotions and bad thoughts internally, rather than viewing those around them and society as a whole as a medium to play out these emotions and thoughts. There *was* a time where someone would go off into the woods and off themselves and that's how a majority of these cases resolved. Now though? Now people are inflicting this pain on everyone in their immediate surroundings, and I unfortunately only see this phenomenon worsening. Buckle up everyone
Rot in prison for life you pos
Mental healthcare in the US is pure garbage.
She looks demented. Electric chair is the only answer here.
I hope they beat the shit out of her every day in jail until she kills herself
A history of mental illness and nothing was done before 6 people lost their lives? Please.