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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (17901)	7/20/2002 12:55:06 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

And also that Bush....

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (17901)	7/20/2002 2:23:01 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 21057

My take on that one: I think he'd been drinking, and that he was probably not fully in in control of the vehicle at the time of the accident. I don't fault him in any major way for bailing out of the vehicle without bringing the woman along. In the dark, upside down, in the water it is very difficult for anyone to avoid panic. Self-preservation tends to jump forward and it is likely that he was out of the car before he even fully knew what had happened. I can't even fault him entirely for failing to go back and get her, assuming that he tried. Extracting a victim from a closed vehicle upside down in the water in the dark would be very difficult for a trained rescuer, almost impossible for someone without experience and training. I have a fair amount of training and experience in water rescue, and I can't say with any conviction that I would certainly have done better. I hope I would have, but I couldn't promise it. Some of those who criticize should ask themselves what they could have done. Failure to account consistently and reliably for actions immediately after an accident is pretty normal. I had a bad accident several years ago and to this day I have no memory whatsoever of the 10 minutes or so that followed. I know roughly what I did and said because other people have told me, but I don't remember a thing about it. What is beyond excuse, of course, is the failure to report the accident even after returning to the house and telling others about it. No extenuating circumstances will cover that one. Presumably there was a crime involved, though I don't know what it would have been, beyond (presumably) drunk driving and negligent failure to report an accident. Does anybody know what charges would be brought against an ordinary human being in such circumstances? I think we all know that investigations of politically influential suspects in most situations are treated somewhat differently than those involving the rest of us. That applies regardless of the political affiliation of the suspect.