Sword and Scale - Episode 143

Episode Date: August 4, 2019

Most of the time, accidents are simply just that. Accidents. Sometimes though, collisions are made with precise decision making, with little to no care in terms of the safety of human beings. We’re going to examine a few cases of wrong way drivers that have occurred over the past few years and question what may have been behind the lack of regard for the lives of others…See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hey guys, this is Mike Bu'Day. After the show, go check out the latest episode of Sword and Scale Rewind, number 123, where I drop in with Stephanie and Matt to talk about the Star Wars Obsessed Killer, Adrian Loya. Just search for Sword and Scale Rewind on any podcast player. Sword and Scale contains adult themes and violence, and is not intended for all audiences. Listener discretion is advised. Fear is irrational.

Like most instinctual emotions, fear does not respond in a sober and measured way based on factual information. It's primal. It's animalistic. For the most part, we fear things that don't make sense. A monster is in the dark, waiting for their turn to strike. We lock our doors at night, turn on our fancy alarm systems, and some of us even check to make sure a gun is nearby, adequately stocked with ammunition.

We fear the outside world, and all of the uncertainty that comes with it. We fear the depravity of man and what can happen when it's unleashed. But how logical is this fear? After more than 140 episodes, we've been telling you that this evil is all around us. This darkness inside each and every one of us is part of who we are. Sure, we've been playing into those fears to some degree, but do you know that there are many, many more things to fear other than homicidal psychopaths and face-eating junkies? There are fears that actually make sense,

that are actually based on factual information and statistics. In fact, out of the top 15 causes of human death, murder at the hands of another isn't even on the list. Instead, almost all of the top causes are based in disease. Heart disease, cancer, respiratory disease, diabetes. You are about 45 times more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than you are of being murdered. 45 times.

There are only two forms of unnatural death on the list. Way down at the bottom at number 15, there is suicide. But higher up, close to the very top, is a very mortal danger we take for granted almost every day of our lives. Vehicular accidents. There's a reason Elon is building self-driving cars. Our daily commutes are mundane. We spend the drive distracted by music, or our favorite podcasts. Sometimes the drive itself is so forgettable that we zone out completely, go into a sort of human autopilot and even forget where we're

going. There have been many times where I've driven to work on a Saturday when I just went to go down to the grocery store. And nowadays, texting and checking our social media has become so addictive that we risk our very lives doing so. Sure, we can make sure we're going straight and we don't hit the car in front of us while sending just the right emoji. But what happens when an unforeseen event unfolds on the road in just a matter of seconds?

And we don't have time to react. What if instead of cars around you with equally distracted drivers all going in the same direction in their morning fog, there was a car coming directly at you, driving against traffic towards you, en route to a head-on collision. In 2016, 1.3 million people died worldwide from road accidents. That's much higher than the 391,000 that were intentionally murdered. Today, we're going to examine a few cases of the phenomenon of wrong-way drivers. Buckle up.

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2.0% 2.0% 2.0% 2.0% During the early morning on Sunday, July 26, 2009, 36-year-old Diane Schuler and her husband Daniel awoke to begin packing the vehicles up from their camping trip at Hunter Lake Campgrounds in South New York. With them on the trip were their 5 year old son, 2 year old daughter, and 3 nieces aged 8, 7 and 5. They got all their children up from their tents to head back home. Diane was in charge of driving the kids in her brother's red 2003 Ford wind star minivan. While Daniel would drive his truck carrying the camping gear and their

dog. The family departed the campground roughly around 9.30 a.m. As they traveled back to their home, Diane stopped at a McDonald's for a quick bite to eat and then to a gas station nearby. After getting back on the road, eight-year-old Emma, Diane's niece, phoned her father, Warren Hance. After Emma and Warren spoke, Diane got on the phone with her brother, letting him know that they were stuck in traffic. Quickly though, things began to change in the car ride. Emma realized that her aunt was appearing to be quite ill. She phoned her father who didn't answer.

After attempts to reach Warren, Emma reached out to her father's best friend Brad, who quickly notified law enforcement for assistance to find them. We're trying to locate the kids and the best they could come up with was that they were on the Tarrytown Reth Center. I'm trying to help a friend of mine. His sister took his girls camping, they gave her a young girl. The oldest is nine. The girl just called in this dress. They said that the aunt is driving very erratically. We think she's sick.

The aunt has been picking up the cell phone right now. Drivers on Interstate 87 noticed a red minivan being driven erratically, flashing headlights honking its horn and switching between lanes in an unsafe manner. Other witnesses saw a woman outside of the van on the shoulder of the interstate, bent over as if vomiting. After Warren was notified by his friend, he began frantically trying to call his sister, but there was no answer.

Warren also contacted the state troopers, requesting any assistance to find his family. Captain Evelyn Mallard took the call and notified other troopers. I have a family here that thinks that they might have a medical emergency of their sister. There's three kids in the car. Five. They're trying to locate her. All the while, Warren and Brad were talking with state troopers. Diane began heading southbound on the northbound lanes of the Deconic State Parkway. One final call came in from Diane's phone. The call was from Emma to her mother Jackie. things were wrong with anti-entity. And I didn't understand. I said, what do you mean?

And I could hear Allison crying in the background. I said, let me talk to you and Diane. And so Diane got on the phone and I was just just saying they're playing, they're having fun. She just didn't sound right. The minivan traveled nearly two miles in the wrong direction before colliding with a 2004 Chevy Trailblazer carrying three adult passengers. At the time of the impact, its estimated Diane was traveling around 85 miles an hour. Upon colliding, the red 2003 Ford minivan bursts into flames and rolled into a field. All of the children were ejected out of the vehicle, while Diane remained inside. Burning alive.

A horrific head-on crash north of New York City has left eight people dead, including four adults and four young children. It happened Sunday afternoon in Westchester County, New York. When police airwoman driving her son, daughter and three nieces in a minivan, head in southbound and in northbound lanes of the Tukonic Parkway. Investigators say the minivan slammed into an SUV, hit a third vehicle and rolled over an embankment bursting into flames. Emergency services at the scene were shocked at the sight they were seeing. The other people were completely engulfed with a woman that was burning. Were the other people thrown from the vehicle? Yes, several people were ejected, most of them children. And we prioritized and we were able to save one young child's life.

Danielle and Diane's young five-year-old son, Brian, was the only survivor of the tragic accident. In the other vehicle, where 49-year-old Guy Bistardi, his 81-year-old father, Michael, and their family friend, 74-year-old Daniel Longo. In the aftermath of the accident, the Schuller, Hans and Bestardi families looked into every possible way this terrible accident could have occurred. It wouldn't be until Diane's autopsy results were released that they would get any answers at all. It turns out the toxicology report stated her blood alcohol level was 0.19, twice the legal limit. The theory was, she had downed at least 10 drinks and smoked marijuana up to 15 times

before the crash occurred. But those who had seen Diane before the accident occurred seemed to think she appeared completely sober. And Scott, owner of Hunterlake Campgrounds, where Diane, Daniel, their children and nieces had stayed, recounted what she remembered from that morning. If she was in the store and had alcohol on her breath, I sure didn't smell it. For Michael Bistardi, who had lost both his brother

and father in the crash, there were too many questions and not enough answers. who had lost both his brother and father in the crash. There were too many questions and not enough answers. You know, it's just kind of like disbelief right now, you know, how someone could jump in the car, put five kids in the car and drink. How could other people not know? And they have five kids,

supposedly leaving the campground or where was she was coming from, you know, from the morning to when the accident happened on 130. These are all questions that my family want to know. We want to know the truth. Daniel believed that Diane had suffered from an unidentified medical condition that caused her bizarre actions that day. Inside the wreckage that was the van, Diane was driving that day.

Investigators at the scene found a broken bottle of vodka. For Jackie, Diane's sister-in-law, this didn't make any sense. I never knew her to drink, so why would she be drinking with my kids in the car? And her kids in the car? Like, it's in it. No, just, no. I just thought it's impossible and it was a mistake. After all was said and done, a total of four lawsuits were filed.

Three of those came after the estate of Diane Schuller, while her husband Daniel sued his brother-in-law Warren and Warren's wife Jackie. All the families have tried to move forward past this horrendous incident. Warren and Jackie Hance were blessed with their fourth daughter. They were my life. They were the reason I was put here. I believe. Because they were really just really amazing girls. I love you all. Make a silly face.

It just gives you a meaning, Danny. When you lose everything and then you get something to hold on to, there's really no way to be able to describe it. She brings a heartbeat to this house again. There was none. She brought us back to life. The Teconic Park Crash is one of the most intriguing and well-known cases of a wrong way crash. One with more questions than answers.

The case has been featured in the daytime shows of both Dr. Phil and Oprah Winfrey. It inspired an episode of Law and Order, entitled Dopeed. And there's even an HBO documentary called There's Something Wrong with Diane that explores just how this person may have been able to hide their addiction from even those closest to her, self-medicating herself with drugs and alcohol when nobody was looking. To this day, the Schueller family persists in refusing to accept Diane Schueller's autopsy reports. On October 8th, the New York Times, the New York Times, the New York Times, the New York Times, the New York Times, the New York Times, the New

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his own head. He had been looking at a sign on the wall that was a stasis in volunteers and I saw that you were reading it and I offered to write a number down the clock. Stephen turned to Joseph and agreed to have him write the number down. He attempted to hide in a room like no path that we carried. Then he left. After Stephen walked out of the emergency room waiting area, Joseph watched as he walked out into the parking lot. Quickly, Joseph headed back to the security room so he could watch in real time what Stephen was doing.

We hadn't established what he was doing in the department yet and wanted to see what he was doing next. Sometimes people will say the bell meeting and they'll have to go to the medical center. In fact, he showed up there two more times later that same day. Less than an hour later, Steven drove his Toyota Tundra pickup truck back to the medical center

and parked in the parking lot, which had caught the attention of Joseph. Why would he be back? He didn't need anything before, it just seemed really odd. Joseph wanted to establish contact with Steven again to make sure everything was okay. As someone who's there to protect patients as well as staff, this behavior seemed to be very much out of the ordinary.

We've had certainly situations where staff or visitors have a stalker or an ex-boyfriend or something who they don't want visiting them. Well, it was still a very open-ended interaction that I had with them. Certainly, by the resolution of this, when I saw that it was checking in, those questions were pretty much answered. That's OK. You should check in. Nothing more of that story, and I use on my radar that way.

After getting checked into the emergency room, Stephen was called to the triage area. He said that he was there for relationship concerns and some concerns related to you safe housing. It turns out that Stephen was having a mental health crisis. Something the triage nurse was taking very seriously for his safety and the safety of others. So when people come with concerns like similar to that, they land on an epic screen for mental health when they have a crisis as they're concerned. We are triggered to ask questions about if they are suicidal or a homesteadal. So those questions were asked of Mr. Regorne. He denied those questions.

The truth is, Stephen was going through a hard time in his life. His engagement had ended. He was only allowed to see his daughter once a week in a supervised state. He was unemployed and he was using marijuana on a regular basis. After seeing a physician in the crisis unit, Stephen left, only to show back up a few hours later in the same state of mind. According to his ex-fiance, while driving in the car in the days prior to Stephen visiting the hospital, he had threatened to drive himself, her, and their daughter into a pond, killing them all so they could be together. It was very clear that something was very wrong. Around 11.44pm on the evening of October 8th, 9-1-1 calls from drivers on Interstate 89 came flooding in. Here are excerpts from some of the other calls that had come in at around the same time.

Oh man, I hope they get this person before they hurt someone. from some of the other calls that had come in at around the same time. Oh man, I hope they get this person before they hurt someone. He just screamed by me at 100 miles an hour. By the time these calls had come in, it was far too late. The person who had been driving northbound in the southbound lanes had violently smashed into a Volkswagen Jetta. As normal traffic continued, a man and his wife noticed a car in the distance, pulled off on the shoulder of the road with its

hazard lights on. Getting out of his vehicle, he noticed the wrecked vehicle in the middle of the passing lane, as well as another vehicle in the embankment. When he got near the wreckage, there was a man standing there observing the crash. I guess the first thing I noticed is that he was standing close to the wreckage of the cab with a truck, and he had a facial hair. And he spoke to me, I believe before I said anything to him. He just says, I don't know what happened, I just lost control. And kind of that cadence. I think I was, yeah.

The man who was standing there was Stephen Borgoin. Police arrived on scene and had begun trying to extinguish the flames from the Jedi. After the fire was partially put out, deputies began trying to get whoever was inside the vehicle out. But the other image I did see again right around that same time as the officers coming from Williston is at least two individuals pulling what looked like the body of a female away from the car. A critical care nurse who had also been traveling down the interstate stopped to provide help. He did what he could after they were able to get the young woman's body away from the

car. We wanted to get her away from the car, so we got her away from the car, turned it over and she was not breathing and had no pulse. So we started to do CPR. While working on the young victim, police noticed there were others inside the car that was still on fire. Four other people were trapped inside the Jetta, but this incident was far from over. While everyone was trying to help those trapped inside, Steven disappeared. A police cruiser parked at the scene began driving through the debris, continuing on a

southbound path. Prior to leaving, the vehicle had been the only source of light that was helping to illuminate the scene. And now it was, there weren't any more lights. And then a way out at the same time, another cruiser is coming down the highway from Wilson. And when I was very confused when the second cruiser came, kind of swirved, slowed down, and swirved around me. I remember feeling like I can get something like another power thing for sure. And he swir the round me and then

just keep going and I was baffled by that I didn't know. But it wasn't another police cruiser coming to help. When Stephen walked away from the scene, he jumped into one of the unoccupied police vehicles and began driving away from the crash at a high rate of speed. This time, he was heading the correct way on Interstate 89. As Williston police officer Brian Klaffey arrived on the scene, he saw flashing lights in the distance heading away from the crash. He was then advised that a cruiser had been stolen. And so did you continue to self-bound that in the day 89? I did. How long were you driving in self-bound? Oh, I'm going to take a guess.

Probably about a mile and a half. OK. And did you stop? I did stop just self officer Nadu from the Richmond Police Department. Advises that he was at the U-turn by just North of X and 11. And he saw the cruiser stop and then turn around. Officer Klafi pulled over and advised a van driving behind him to stop and get off the

road. The stolen cruiser sped past him towards the site of the original crash. He radioed in to the officers letting them know that the vehicle was coming back towards them at a speed and excess of a hundred miles an hour. Shortly after this call, he heard 1050 come through the radio, which meant there had been another collision. scene when he arrived back to where it all started. There was a lot more debris, quite honestly, it looked like a bomb went off or a war zone. It was going to shock at all that would happen, but there was more victims now that we had injured.

There was a car on its side in the ditch off to the slow passing lane, but it was in the ditch on its side, which somebody inside of it. As Steven barrelled towards the crash site, he hit seven other cars and smashed back into the jedda, once again setting it ablaze. All of the occupants in the jedda that evening were only 15 and 16 years of age. Every one of them died that night. Steven himself was in bad shape after the incident and was taken back to the University of Vermont Medical Center. Steven Borjan has been in critical condition since the incident on Saturday.

He hasn't been charged yet in the crash that killed the teens between the ages of 15 and 16, but he was arrested for his alleged use of a police cruiser. Police said that after crashing into the teen's car, he took a police cruiser and crashed into seven more cars. Less than a week after the accident on October 14th, Stephen was wheeled into a conference room at the hospital on a bed, still in very bad shape, to be arraigned on charges stemming from the events of October 8th. He was charged with five counts of murder. And what is the estate's position regarding conditions to do this?

Judge, we asked that Mr. Briego and be held without mail. We filed a motion on early this morning, and Mr. Caino's will not object to that, I mean the competency and other questions. That's great. Okay, so I will issue the order. I'm going to be held without bail. And then what I'll do then is, when you request the hearing then, if you contact the clerk's office and we'll set a hearing then on that motion.

Thank you, sir. Okay, is there anything else in there we should cover today? No, you're on it. Okay, thank you. When Stevens Trial began in May of this year, his defense team wanted to show that their client was psychotic at the time of the crash due to overwhelming stress. They claimed that Stephen had believed he was on a secret mission for the United States government and was receiving messages from normal things such as the car radio or television. Could he have been one of those alleged, targeted individuals? Or was this just another case of schizophrenia?

But the prosecution alleged Stephen was in a bout of rage, and that in the months and years leading up to the crash, everything there was to know about Stephen's anger issues showed he was more than capable and more than willing to commit such a horrendous act. So rather than relying on what Mr. Purgoyin told these doctors about his history and how he was behaving in the months weeks before the crashes. Let's talk a little bit about what the evidence showed. In 2014 Mr. Bergoin assaulted the mother of his child and Neil Lawrence. He grabbed her, he pulled her hair and he went asked about it by Dr. Rosemary and he stated that his disappearance was traumatic for him. He

stated that she upset him. And in 2016, when he again assaulted Miss Lawrence, he pushed her, he held her against the wall while she held their baby. And then when she attempted to leave, he took control of their vehicle for over 45 minutes while she asked to leave, demanding that they split custody, and that if they didn't, he would drive them all off the road into a pond, killing them all off the road into a pond killing them all. And when asked about this later, he stated that he did it, but he didn't do it intentionally, that she got in his way, so he pushed her out of the way. That he did threaten them, but he didn't mean that either. He was just telling them that he could drive them all off into a pond and kill

them, not that he would. Steven's girlfriend at the time had told investigators that on the day of the crash he was very angry because he couldn't get his hands on any marijuana and was acting very out of character. On May 22nd, 2019, after 16 days of trial and 12 hours of deliberations, the jury had finalized their verdict. With regard to count two, the charge involving the second degree murder of Syrish Shao, how did the jury find? Charge guilty? A second degree murder.

What's that verdict unanimous? Yes. With regard to count three, the second degree murder involving Liam Hale, having the jury find. Founders who were going guilty, a second degree murder. Stephen Borgoyne was found guilty of five counts of second-degree murder and charges stemming from stealing the police cruiser to causing additional injuries at the scene of the accident. The verdict came just shy of when 16-year-olds

Eli Brookins, Mary Harris, Liam Hale, Cyrus Show, and 15-year-old Janny Cossie were due to graduate from high school. The young teenagers were just on their way from a concert when Steven Bergoin made a decision that took all of their lives and destroyed the lives of all of the people that cared about them, and loved them. Like an atom bomb, a single explosion followed by ripples of endless damage, seemingly extending in every direction. Alright, what's going on guys? Mixed skillet here with another video. This is Mixed Skillet. Today I thought I would switch it up and just do a real life video because I've been

seeing plenty of new car videos on YouTube for the longest time and people seem to like those videos, they seem to get a lot of views. So yes, I did say Mixed mix skillet and for this video I want to do a really big giveaway and this one you don't even have to put a steam link or anything this is just ten one hundred dollar steam gift cards yet a lady at best by was very confused when I bought these just wait for it but yeah just like comment subscribe and reply the winning comments saying that I sent you a PM on YouTube and I'll even say how you check your PMs on YouTube if you don't know how to because it's kind

of weird now But yeah, this is actually my car now It's not actually like my new car because I've had it for a few months now But uh, so yeah if I put a new car in the video the new part is the part your clickbait on not the part itself like Where the youtubers just like go and film some car like looking at or like make some like sort of meme video Which it was funny when PewDiePie did it but I feel like this plan I mean people just want to see like the actual cars and stuff that YouTubers actually have. This video is from YouTube and McLaren is a $450,000 sports car.

But this is the McLaren 650S, of course, and I'm just doing the audio recording over the footage. As you can probably tell, because I don't really know how to be like a YouTube vlogger. I don't really have like a live audio setup but yeah this car is 641 horsepower and it beats just about every single other supercar and a drag race. I'm not talking about like hyper cars like Porsche 19 Spider but we're talking about like even like a Lamborghini eventador Huracan any of the Ferraris it beats all of those. As technology has rapidly evolved. New fads and trends have shaped this thing that we call the internet. Could you imagine 10 years ago that people would be streaming themselves playing games online

or more importantly, that other people would actually watch them? If you did, would you imagine that the players would then be making a whole hell of a lot of money doing this? Well believe it or not, here we are in the new age of Twitch. At just 18 years old Trevor Heitman was known online as McSkillet and he was one of those players. Trevor loved to play the first person competitive online game called CSGO or Counter-Strike

Global Offensive. Not only was he very good at this game, but he was also good at turning this into a career path that made him a lot of money. As most modern day streamers do, they want to dispred the wealth with their fans and supporters by doing giveaways frequently. In the video you heard just previously, Trevor went out and purchased $10-$100 steam gift cards to give away to the fans who supported his YouTube channel. But fame and fortune sometimes isn't all it's cracked up to be, especially when money

comes so fast and so easy. In January of 2018 Trevor had lost almost $100,000 of cosmetic skins on Counter Strike, and his steam account had a trade ban placed upon it due to online gambling with the website CSGO Magic. This trade ban meant he was unable to trade or sell any of his collection of digital items. I did talk to make skill at quite some time ago and he told me he's now been trade ban for about four to five months and that was actually a month or two ago. So yes, make skill was actually trade month or two ago. So yes, Mick Skill was actually trade-banned,

I believe, for the time being, around six months ago, and has trimmed trade-banned ever since, he did actually tell me through Twitter DMs, which I will not show you guys, but I'm not going to lie to you about this. He actually was going to tell his viewership about why he was banned, and what he did apparently was a small mistake on his end, and he never made that video for his viewers.

So yes, I'm going to link a great video down below to go in in detail about what skins were actually banned on his account. It's going to be an link a great video down below to go in in detail about what skins were actually banned on his account. It's gonna be an insane inventory to go through. A lot of $10,000 plus skins, a lot of several thousand dollar skins in his inventory. And as of right now, he will not be getting them back. Now, alleged rumors right now, as well,

I'll link his trade link and steam profile down below. The trade bet is not shown on his actual steam account. But if you go to try and trade with him, you can clearly see he is trade-bend. And on top of that, as well. And it might also be alleged rumors saying his ties to CSGO Magic, CSGO Kingdom, other sites out there he's been affiliated with, and you guys are very well aware that Valve does tend to trade band a lot of accounts and bought accounts that are actually or even to where your accounts are tied to any of those gambling websites,

and just so having them skill it was one of those people. So according to him, you know, in DMs with him, he made a small mistake, he was going to make us all aware of exactly what he did to get trained bent. He has never made that video. Will he make it now that he's been, I guess you could say called out or been brought to light most likely not. He really has no reason to, but it is quite sad to see all those amazing skins now seemingly go to waste. Not long after the news broke in the gaming community. The usually active YouTuber seemed to just disappear. It was said that Trevor had spiraled into depression quickly. On August 18th, he told his parents

that he believed he was having a meltdown. A few days later, Trevor told his mother that he had driven his McLaren 150 miles an hour through a 25 mile an hour school zone and was traveling in the wrong direction. His parents knew there was something very wrong, something even more wrong than an 18-year-old having a McLaren. But Trevor wouldn't open up to them. Instead, on August 23rd, Trevor's parents had found him crying in the early morning

before he fell asleep for a few hours. Upon awakening, he grabbed his car keys and noticed that his McLaren was parked in front of his father's vehicle. Being in the stable frame of mind that he was, Trevor got into his car and rammed his dad's vehicle so he could get out of the driveway and then drove away from his Carmel Valley home. His father began trying to contact him and when Trevor answered the phone, his dad asked him what he would think when the cops found him. Trevor said neither the police or their

bullets could hurt him. His parents then contacted the San Diego police in an attempt to get the young man a psychiatric evaluation. But the officer stated nothing could be done as Trevor had not yet broken any laws. Little did they know, the chaos that was about to ensue on Interstate 805. Trevor entered the wrong way on Interstate 805 and began traveling against traffic in

the HOV lane at a high rate of speed. His McLaren collided with an SUV containing a 43-year-old woman at a 12-year-old daughter. The impact of the crash caused both vehicles to burst into flames. I can tell you, based on my personal experience as an officer with the California Hatchel, I've been to several horrible crashes. The speeds did do what he did to that vehicle. That vehicle was completely disintegrated up that scene for lack of better words, high speeds. You know, I can't be specific, but...

What did you say over a moment, would you say to that, couldn't you cooperate with your own? It could cooperate with the amount of damage that was sustained at that scene. Trevor was killed instantly from blunt force trauma, while the mother and daughter in the other vehicle were trapped as they burned a death from the engulfment of fire. For those in the gaming community, it was hard to know whether or not Trevor was actually the one involved in the car accident. It was just something they didn't wanna believe. But not long after the crash,

the news came out and identified him as the driver of the wrong way crash. The wrong way driver has been identified as YouTube and E-game star Trevor Heintman. In the aftermath of the crash, people in the esports industry are still torn on whether it was an accident, questioning if Trevor simply took the wrong exit, or that he was in a

manic state and unintentionally drove the wrong way. But the outcome of the crash and the fate of Trevor means that we will never really know just what went through his mind that day. It's a sobering reminder that we never really know the state of mind of anyone sharing the road with us. Our complacency and assuming everything is going to be okay is highly misplaced. Everyone on earth goes through things, deals with things, some in more healthy ways than others, and when one of us gets behind the wheel of a one-ton missile with the wrong frame of mind, everyone else out there is a potential target, just going about their mundane day to day lives. Okay, here we go.

This is Daddy and Cal. Having some apple strawberry, which we like, definitely. We like apple strawberry. it's very delicious. But in a minute, we're gonna have to have veggies, the chicken king-wa. Here we go. That's delicious.

In early January of 2018, 29-year-old Ryan Fulsome departed from his home in Medford, Oregon to begin a west coast trip of interviews for a possible medical residency. His wife Lauren, who was pregnant at the time with the couple's third child, and his two sons stayed home while he was traveling. Ryan was looking for the perfect opportunity in his career as a physician and a new home for his young family. Originally from Medford, Ryan had made quite a name for himself. He was a star football player at North Medford High School and had earned a scholarship to bring him young university where his talents on the field were just as superior as those

off the field. While studying neuroscience, the former Eagle Scout served a mission for the Church of Latter-day Saints in South Korea. But what was most important to him was his family. After graduating from BYU, he attended the University of Texas at San Antonio Medical School, where he was set to graduate in the spring of 2018. On January 7, after successful interviews in the Pacific Northwest, Ryan departed down Interstate 5 for an interview in Sacramento.

As he made his way into the small city of Reading, California, he was unaware of what would happen just a few miles away. Just south of Reading, 28-year-old Grace Ward was driving her 2009 Chevy Impala in the northbound lanes heading towards Reading. At some point, she pulled into the median of the interstate and slowly continued to drive north until finding a gap in the wire barrier separating the north and southbound lanes. After pulling through the gap and facing her car towards oncoming traffic, she called her mother to tell her she was going to end her life by driving head-on into

another vehicle. Seven minutes passed and Grace hung up the phone. Her mother frantically called 911 but it was too late. Grace stepped on the gas after she hung up the phone and began driving towards other drivers. Many were able to maneuver out of the way, but Grace's car smashed into a 2012 red Honda Accord. The car driven by Ryan Folsom. Both cars mangled. Emergency services did everything they could to get Ryan out of the car and take him to Mercy Medical Center. Unfortunately, later that day he succumbed to his injuries and died. Ryan was just two weeks shy of meeting his newborn son. He didn't

get to see all of his hard work and dedication to the medical field come to fruition. They say there is a cosmic sense of humor in the universe demonstrated by the irony of certain events, the absurdity of it all. Grace Ward, who had tried to commit suicide by driving her car head on towards another innocent driver, survived the crash. She left the scene with nothing but a broken tibia. Your tibia is the bigger bone on the bottom of your leg, right where your shin is. This non-life threatening injury would eventually heal. But after receiving medical treatment, she was arrested and charged with second degree murder.

Three counts of attempted murder for almost hitting three other vehicles and was slapped with a $1.5 million bail. District Attorney Stephanie Bridget announced the charges in a press conference. The case has now been officially submitted to my office against Grace Elizabeth Ward. She is the individual who chose to drive the wrong way on I-5 on January 7th, ultimately resulting in the death of Ryan Fulsome that was submitted today. However, I have decided what charges were going to file against her. I'm going to file one count of murder for the death of Ryan Fulsome. I'm going to file three counts of attempt in murder for three

other vehicles that she intentionally drove towards. We're going to file three counts of assault of a deadly weapon also related to the other vehicles that she drove towards as well as a felony count of vandalism based on her actions on that day. Word made a choice that day to use her vehicle to try to kill herself. Her choice was very selfish, and the method she used has been determined to be a criminal. Her actions demonstrated a complete disregard for human life and ultimately did result in taking the human life,

that being of Ryan Falson. In the wake of his untimely death, Ryan's childhood friend Ian Cropper posted a GoFundMe page to raise finances for his friends' family. One that surpassed almost $150,000 in only a day and a half. I didn't know what to expect. This is just, you know, we knew we wanted to do something. You can imagine like the mixed range of emotions that one would feel of, you know, on the one end you've got this total tragedy and on the other end you just see this positive example

of humanity. This terrible, terrible thing happens and yet at the same time it reminds you that humanity is out there and that people really do care for one another. On August 28th of last year, Grace took a plea deal. She was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after serving at least 18 years of her sentence. It's one thing to want to kill yourself, but to do it in such a selfish way. Taking someone else with you, just because you're a little sad or depressed, is disgusting and worthy of a murder charge. How is your life any better now, Grace Ward, now that you've taken away Ryan's life?

Destroy the lives of his family, take away a husband and a father, and now serving a life sentence. How is your life any better? There's no doubt that getting behind the wheel of a car, a mundane task we do every single day is one of the most dangerous things we can do. Terrible things can happen in the blink of an eye. Oftentimes it's the last thing on our mind. We're thinking about work or relationships.

Tasks we need to accomplish. Goals we've set for ourselves. Maybe a conversation that turned into an argument. We're thinking about things that in the long run, in the grand scheme of things, don't really matter all that much. While operating heavy machinery capable of killing or maiming, it is a glaring example of why we should always pay more attention to our surroundings, why it's preached to put the phone down and keep your eyes on the road. Being aware of your surroundings doesn't just mean looking around for serial killers at the supermarket, being suspicious of people in the park. It means there are very real dangers that can threaten our lives. And although probably not as interesting as

being stabbed a hundred times by a psychopath, there's absolutely no fun in flying through a vehicle window in excess of a hundred miles an hour. Remember even if you're the best driver in the world, there are people out there on the road with no regard for your life or theirs. Two o'clock and ten o'clock. Put your phone down, keep your eyes on the road, and until next time, stay safe. 1.5% 1.5% 1.5% 1.5% 1.5% 1.5%

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