Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:He's Madeline statement. He was on prescription meds.
So? He should not have been driving!
Agreed but given what time of day it was (3am) and other details of the police report (he was alone, asleep in his car on the side of the road, with two flat tires and some other damage), that he wasn't in the right state of mind. I suspect that he had some sort of episode from the prescription meds and either slept Walk/drove or started imaging he had to be somewhere. The police report also said he told them he thought he was in California and he was on the way to an appointment. Considering that he had no alcohol in his system and it doesn't appear he had been anywhere else that night, this suggest to me he may have gone beserk from meds. I believe he was on Vicodin and something else.
I have had two severe reactions from meds, and thankfully I wasn't home alone or I can see myself doing something like this. Once was from an ssri and benzo (lexapro and Xanax, which can be taken together, but shouldnt be by me) and the other was from tamiflu. Both times I wasn't making sense to the people around me, acting crazy paranoid, I thought I had to be somewhere and my friends/family told me to cool my jets and wouldn't let me drive. I slept it off but it was scary. I am so grateful I wasn't alone. Remember the Kennedy congressman who wrecked his car by the capital while on ambien because he was convinceced he needed to come vote on something, and blamed it on ambien? Drugs can mess with certain people. Doesn't mean he should get off, but does provide some explanation.