Monica Chavez: Seizure Mom

[DrPhil]

This is regarding the court case for the February 17, 2011 incident. I could not find a thread about this.

http://www.hlntv.com/video/2012/06/1...zure-mom-crash

http://abcnews.go.com/US/colorado-wo...ry?id=16564021

Originally Posted by ABCNews

Jurors will begin deciding this morning whether a Colorado woman ignored the medical advice of doctors not to operate a vehicle when she plowed her SUV into a pickup truck, killing a family of five.

Prosecutors say Monica Chavez, driving more than 100 miles per hour with her two kids, apparently had a seizure when she entered an intersection, went airborne and smashed into two cars on a Thornton, Colo., street Feb. 17, 2011. Randy and Crystaldawn Stollsteimer, and their kids, Sebastian, Darrian, and Cyrus, died instantly.

Prosecutors say Chavez should not have been behind the wheel because of another seizure-like episode she had in 2006. After the 2006 episode, doctors told Chavez in the emergency room that she should not drive until cleared by a neurologist, prosecutor Tiffany Score said.