[Cerek the Barbaric]

Originally posted by WillowIX: Must be some misunderstanding or something in there. I don't think a nurse's aid would take her three children along if she were trying to harm someone. ABC also mentions that she was trying to locate her mother-in-law. Perhaps she needed a sitter. Anyone can become irrational.

Normally, I would agree with you Willow, although I would base it more on a mother not wanting to harm her children rather than it having anything to do with her occupation.

Just a little over a year ago, another nurses aid hit a homeless man on her way home from a party. But she didn't just knock him off the road, the man was thrown onto the hood of the care and impaled on the windshield. What did the nurses' aid do? She drove home, parked her car in the garage, and LEFT THE MAN ON HER WINDSHIELD!!! He died a very slow and painful death...all because she was scared of losing her job (she had been doing drugs at the party she was coming home from).

But, alas, even the "Maternal Instinct" is no longer as solid as it once was. Just this past week, a mother her in our rural little town set her trailer on fire with all 5 of her daughters inside. According the story in the newspaper, she at first had planned to just kill herself, then decided to leave the girls in the trailer too, then lost her nerve about committing suicide and ran outside. Fortunately, she also had a final burst of maternal instinct at the last minute and got her daughters outside before they were injured....but it could easily have been another tragedy of a mother killing all her children.

They're have been a handful of "high profile" cases of this occurring here in America over the last several years.

So - until more clarification is given - I can't automatically assume the mother just had some type of mishap with her car that caused it to careen out of control (although I certainly HOPE that is the case).