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Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 03:17 PM Jun 2012

Washington State Patrol says man accused of throwing wife from moving car on interstate

SEATTLE - Washington state authorities say a man shoved his wife from a moving car on a highway and later attacked a state trooper.

The Washington State Patrol says troopers responded Sunday morning to a report of a woman being thrown from a vehicle on Interstate 90, about 70 miles southeast of Seattle.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that troopers found the woman and sent her by ambulance to a hospital. The woman's condition was unknown and it was unclear how fast the car had been moving.

The patrol says that a trooper later pulled the man's car over near Snoqualmie Pass. He was taken into custody and placed in the back seat of the patrol car. But the man broke out the patrol car window, climbed out and attacked the trooper.

The patrol says the man was finally subdued after a scuffle.
http://www.startribune.com/nation/160198935.html

Meth-head tweeker?

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Washington State Patrol says man accused of throwing wife from moving car on interstate (Original Post) Blue_Tires Jun 2012 OP
hope the woman will be ok. Liberal_in_LA Jun 2012 #1
All I can think of is that's got to be a pretty tricky maneuver. SheilaT Jun 2012 #2
I'm thinking one or both of them were under serious influence Blue_Tires Jun 2012 #3
That's a lovely area. Quantess Jun 2012 #4
 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
2. All I can think of is that's got to be a pretty tricky maneuver.
Tue Jun 26, 2012, 04:46 PM
Jun 2012

Throwing someone out of a car while you're driving. Unless she was already unconscious, then it wouldn't be too hard.

I also thought to myself, if she'd been wearing a seat belt it might have made it harder. Of course, if he was sufficiently determined to throw her out, and especially if he was very much larger, he'd have been able to do it.

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