Did Laura Bush kill someone????

I've read it around D.U. from time to time- that Laura was in a drunk driving accident with a former boyfriend? Is this right?


Does anyone have links to the story etc?

Thanks guys

What could get more mainstream than that?

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e1698.htm

but she did have an accident as a teenager or while in her early twenties in which she did kill someone. The accident was her fault. I have no link, sorry.

those details were not in the report.

''As far as we know, no charges were filed,'' said Midland city attorney Keith Stretcher. ''I don't think it's unusual that charges weren't filed.'' -- amazing!!

How conveeeeeeenient:eyes:

She was just 17 years old at the time, and, horribly enough, her boyfriend was in the other vehicle and was killed.

There was no alcohol involved.

I am not comfortable in condemning Laura Bush for this tragedy, years before she even met that dipshit over the barbecue pit. I have a relative who was in a similar cirumstance, and it's a tough burden to bear.

Maybe she was high, not drunk.

Of course, she was a society girl, so it was made to go away. Then she married into the perfect family to make it go away forever.

You wonder why these people have no concept of death? There is never any consequence for them, no matter how many people they kill.

I remember reading that when she was young she ran a stop sign and hit another car killing someone in it who had been her boyfriend. I don't think she was charged with anything.

I have often thought that if Hillary had done something like that the right wing would have hammered it over and over. I think the right wing would have made the boy's family famous by having them on TV and in books and tabloids. I also wonder how the boy's family feels about Laura Bush now.

Check this out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Dutton_Douglas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Michael_Dutton_Douglas.jpg

in high school

I was telling my mom about this earlier & she was not believing me

at the same time a jilted lover was driving through an intersection? What are the odds? Astronomical

The odds would have been better than you think. Small town, few roads, fewer people.

Hardly a tiny little town.

Since they went to the same school. They probably hung out at the same places since they obviously knew each other and by extension, the same people.

You aren't telling me you never r saw the people you knew from high school around town?

It was on a farmer's market road outside of town.

I live just a few miles away and travel those roads for business quite often.

The roads are flat and straight as arrows. The intersections are at right angles. There is just mesquite and tumbleweeds as far as the eye can see with a house here and there. It may be a mile or more between intersections.

Usually you are the only car within sight.

Cars go 60 and above on them today. It would be totally amazing for two cars going 60 to hit each other at one of those intersections because there just aren't any cars there and you can see them coming from so far away.

It's a hard accident for me to explain.

I don't think it could have been on purpose as you couldn't time a hit like that if you tried ten times with two cars going 60 miles an hour at right angles to each other. Also, there's no light on those roads, so yu wouldn't be able to tell who was in the other car coming from the other angle.

Laura Welch was certainly not part of the Bush clan back then. Her family had no influence in town as far as I know. She was just a 17 year old going to a party.

I'm assuming she was going to a party, paying no attention and wasn't familiar driving on the roads outside of town.

I'm surprised there wasn't some punishment though. It was obviously her fault and she obviously ran the stop sign. I'd have to see how similar accidents were handled back then in the same town.

PS - Once I was stopped by a sheriff's car late at night on one of these roads. He told me he stopped me because I was "weaving in and out of traffic". "Traffic?" I squeeled, "There's not a car within a mile of us" He said that was "neither here nor there," but he thought I might have been drinking and could see I wasn't so let me go on. I was driving in the middle of the road as I do on those roads at night because so many small animals jump in to the road without warning. There are almost no shoulders. You can see approaching cars a mile away so there's no danger.

So why didn't Laura see the other car? Even at a right angle, she should have seen it ong before hitting it.

in a town of 80,000.

It isn't astronomical.

:rofl:

The First Lady made a brief remark in March 2000 about the crash, "I know this as an adult, and even more as a parent, it was crushing ... for the family involved and for me as well."


ME AS WELL cut me a break

In May 2000, a two-page police report about a fatal car crash caused by Bush when she was 17 was made public. The report says that on November 6, 1963 Bush (then Laura Welch) was driving her Chevrolet sedan with her classmate Judy Dyke. It was shortly after 8 pm on a clear night when Welch entered the intersection of U.S. Highway 349 and Texas Farm Road 868. Bush failed to observe the intersection's stop sign and collided into a Chevrolet Corvair sedan driven by her ex-boyfriend Michael Dutton Douglas, also 17. Bush and Dyke sustained minor injuries; Douglas was pronounced dead on arrival at Midland Memorial Hospital. Welch was not ticketed or charged in connection with the collision.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Bush

kill someone and not get a ticket ? And no tests done for alcohol.


But thank God she never made money on cattle futures.

at spreading awful things about wonderful people. "liberal media," meaning "only the liberals know?"

Dime bag Laura ring a bell to some of you?

Even then the Bush clan was above the law.

At the time, Laura's family were Democrats. That was when Texas was a solid Democratic state, as were ALL the southern states. In fact, in 1972 Laura helped campaign, locally, for McGovern.

She was not a "society girl". He father has a home construction business that he had started himself, from scratch. He had done well with the business, and had become affluent, but wasn't "society rich".

W had already been sent away, years earlier, to a rich boarding school. Laura stayed in the public school system.

In 1963, many things were a LOT different than today. In an accident like that one, there were not the intensive investigations that one would see today. If the officer on the spot decided that the driver was sober, then the decision stood. There was would have been no ticket as it would have been seen as needlessly adding to the grief.

To attack her for the things she does today is fair game. But to try to make a conspiracy theory out of a 17 year old girl's fatal accident only shows a pathological hatred. In the governor's race, Ann Richards knew about the accident, and told her campaign to be completely silent about it. Attacking her about the old accident is counterproductive. A moderate, persuadable, voter will view such an attack as unfair and will feel sympathy for the modern Laura.

But I think that most of us who attack ANYTHING and ANYBODY having to do with Shrub do so from a therapeudic venting, in reaction to how the wingnuts have NEVER EVER let anything thoughtful or reasonable or FACTUAL get in the way of their bile.

it's called tit-for-tat.

I await the "are we not better than THEM?" comments.

if she had had that in her past? I think that it's very fair game bringing it up with respect to Laura. I guess the Republicans have sort of altered my beliefs about what is acceptable in public discourse.

And the Sheriff said they didn't charge her because she really didn't mean to do it and she felt bad.:puke:

as well, but I still paid the consequences. No wonder no one wants to accept responsibility in this admin. No one ever has before.

I've never got any do-overs in my life.
However, I guess we should be happy that at least one of the Bush's does feel bad for something.:shrug:

But was Glossed over as a regrettable youthful indiscretion. Kinda like hitting a deer or something. See how that goes over with a grieving family! Evil is as Evil does.

Do you propose that all teenagers that are in the wrong in an auto accident should get life in prison? That seems to be what you are advocating.

She ran a stop sign. No charges were ever filed.

west of Midland.

This accident happened a few miles south of Midland I believe. That would be far away from Odessa.

This was an extremely popular boy--not only accomplished and intelligent, but genuinely well-liked He was killed in a tragic accident by a girl who was also well-liked and in the same social circle.

If something had happened like this at your high school, wouldn't you talk about it? Wouldn't his death be a "landmark" type event in your life and the life of the community? Wouldn't the other suvivor talk about it? But no one has, not when Bush was a failed oil/man politician, not when he was governor, not when he was president.

Also interesting that the speed of Laura's car is illegible in the police report.