Anonymous wrote:Yes I knew. I'm afraid of driving in the UK or Ireland because you have to drive on the other side of the road and from the passenger side of the car. I don't think I could do it.

Anonymous wrote:I am 45 and when I read the thread title, I was like "that can't be right" but now reading about the details it's very distantly jogging my memory. I'm sure I saw news coverage of it or like tabloid headlines about it, but I was 7 and did not know who Matthew Broderick was at that point, because I was too young to have seen or appreciated Ferris Bueller at that age.

I did know about the Laura Bush thing because in addition to it being covered during her husband's campaigns, I have a lot of family from Midland including people who went to school with Laura and George (he moved away after elementary and went to boarding school after that, so people don't really remember him well). Laura's accident was something almost everyone knew about because it was so tragic and it was not a big town. She ran a stop sign while driving at night and hit another car and the driver died. But the crazy thing is that she knew boy who died, who was also a teenager, and they'd actually dated previously. Most people I know who knew her thought was a very nice person despite that ordeal. People are pretty religious down there so I think that's sort of how the community got through it, including Laura.

Anonymous wrote:I am 45 and when I read the thread title, I was like "that can't be right" but now reading about the details it's very distantly jogging my memory. I'm sure I saw news coverage of it or like tabloid headlines about it, but I was 7 and did not know who Matthew Broderick was at that point, because I was too young to have seen or appreciated Ferris Bueller at that age.

I did know about the Laura Bush thing because in addition to it being covered during her husband's campaigns, I have a lot of family from Midland including people who went to school with Laura and George (he moved away after elementary and went to boarding school after that, so people don't really remember him well). Laura's accident was something almost everyone knew about because it was so tragic and it was not a big town. She ran a stop sign while driving at night and hit another car and the driver died. But the crazy thing is that she knew boy who died, who was also a teenager, and they'd actually dated previously. Most people I know who knew her thought was a very nice person despite that ordeal. People are pretty religious down there so I think that's sort of how the community got through it, including Laura.

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Anonymous wrote:Stars often have this stuff scrubbed from the internet.

See also Whoopi’s “rape rape” comments. For which she received mild backlash.

It never needs to be scrubbed from the internet if it never happened while the internet was in existence!

Anonymous wrote:Stars often have this stuff scrubbed from the internet.

See also Whoopi’s “rape rape” comments. For which she received mild backlash.

Anonymous wrote:No, I didn't, that's crazy.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, but only because I read Jennifer Gray’s memoir and she was in the car with him. She was badly injured and he didn’t let her get checked out in the hospital because of his pride - she later developed back issues and when she went on dancing with the stars and got injured, a back surgeon said she’d essentially been walking around one tiny wrong move and she could be paralyzed for life. I believe she eventually had back surgery.

She did not paint him as a good person at all. He constantly cheated with her too. It makes me doubt that he stayed faithful to Sarah Jessica.

Anonymous wrote:He grew up in NYC. Kids who grow up in NYC tend to be terrible drivers IME.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, common knowledge to my cohort, but I'm late 50s. How old are you, OP?

+1 I’m 52 and knew this. It also got some mentions recently when the wife of an American stationed in the UK killed people in a similar fashion - not drunk or speeding just driving on the wrong side of the road.