Here are some of the reasons why I thought this was a murder, not an accident.
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There are those who want to believe the future First Lady deliberately and with malice aforethought murdered her (ex-)boyfriend over some now forgotten teen tiff and who point to what they view as the suspicious circumstances of the accident and the subsequent lack of prosecution as proofs of their supposition. Yet to entertain such a hypothesis is to believe the young woman would have attempted to kill another by doing away with herself. (As the driver of what was intended to be a murder weapon, she would have had no reason to believe she would survive a collision severe enough to be fatal to her prey; that events turned out that way doesn't mean that outcome could have been reasonably foreseen.) Although the theory of "I'll kill you even though I have to kill myself to do it" might still play in a person sufficiently vengeance-minded (e.g., a suicide bomber), it is far better discounted in cases where an innocent life would also be taken (e.g., a passenger in the car). Those intent upon acts of revenge are generally impelled by a misguided sense of justice, and there is precious little justice (misguided or otherwise) in causing the death of innocent parties.
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Here is what I think: Head to head collision coming at same speed might be roughly equally damaging for both cars but in cases of collision to the side, most of energy is transferred to the car being struck. The aspiring killer may reasonably assume that the damage to herself would be minor. My question would be, how much were Laura Bush and her friend hurt? My guess is that they were not hurt much, if at all. Another question would be, were Laura Welch and her friend wearing seatbelt? My guess is that they were.
Another issue raised was:
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Then there are the circumstances of the crash. It was 8 pm on a November night in Texas on roads far removed from any town, so it was dark. With no stop sign facing him, the doomed young man would have had no reason to slow his vehicle even if he had seen another car approaching the intersection. He therefore would have been travelling at least 50 mph. Laura Welch ran the stop sign facing her, so there is reason to assume she too was going approximately 50 mph, the speed she would have been doing if she'd had the right of way.
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The aspiring murderer may greatly increase the chance of successful collision by placing obstruction at the intersection so that the victim has to slow down or stop. This may have been done by the accomplice waving down the victim's car as the driver and the car accelerated toward the intersection, or merely placing objects such as rocks or tree branches on the road.
Since we are in Paranoid forum, I'd might as well go all out crazy.
Doesn't she look a bit, well, reptilian?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_People
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According to David Icke reptilian humanoids are the force behind a worldwide conspiracy directed at manipulation and control of humanity. He contends that most of our world's leaders, from George W. Bush to members of the British royal family, are in fact 7-foot tall, blood-drinking reptilians from the star system Alpha Draconia.
According to an interview with David Icke, Christine Fitzgerald, a confidante of the late Diana, Princess of Wales, claims that Diana told her that the Royal Family were reptilian aliens, and that they could shapeshift. [11] David Icke and others have claimed that U.S. President George W. Bush and his family are part of this same bloodline (Icke, 2004).
Icke claims, based on his exploration of genealogical connections to European royalty, that many presidents of the United States have been and are reptilian humanoids. In his view, United States foreign policy after September 11 is the product of a reptilian conspiracy to enslave humanity, with George W. Bush as a servant of the lizards.
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