Man killed after driver shows him "how you drive crazy"

[matcom]

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"This is how you drive crazy," Victoria A. Zell allegedly told the two passengers in her sport-utility vehicle July 20 as she sped away from a SuperAmerica store in south Minneapolis.

Minutes later, after speeding through a stop sign on 17th Av. S., Zell's vehicle crashed into a pickup truck at E. 46th St., according to criminal charges filed this week.

Joshua Schmidt, 30, of Stillwater, who had been in the back seat of Zell's vehicle, was killed. Amity Dimock, 31, of Minneapolis, who was in the front seat, was permanently paralyzed.

Zell stumbled away from the accident clutching her broken shoulder, witnesses said. She was later found lying in a patch of tall grass a few blocks away.

Zell, 44, of Minneapolis, was charged with three counts of criminal vehicular homicide and three counts of criminal vehicular operation, according to a complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court.

She is scheduled to make her first court appearance today.

"This is a tragic situation," Hennepin County Attorney Amy Klobuchar said Thursday. "She now faces homicide charges because of a bad decision she made."

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/4950506.html

[BigMcLargehuge]

1. Stunned...

I don't even have a witty response for this. What kind of an asswipe pulls a stunt like that? Shove her in the clink until she's way too old to drive again.

[GOPisEvil]

4. I'm with you...just stunning...

[sui generis]

2. dang - moral of the story?

1. if you drive crazy make the passengers get out and watch as you get diggity with Darwin?

2. if somebody says "this is how you drive crazy" knock her in the head before she stomps on the gas. Then get the hell out.

[redqueen]

3. Thank goodness the driver of the pickup wasn't injured.

I just *knew* alcohol must've been involved.

:grr:

[name not needed]

5. Are all people named Zell dumbasses?

Zell Miller, and then this guy.

[fob]

6. Read the whole story!!! That's the looniest thing I've read in a long

time.

Apparently this woman is the ex-wife of a Powerball Lottery winner too!

Just read the story. Wow.