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Report: Car Headlights Suspect in Death of White House Adviser's Wife
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| Feb 9 2011
| Fox news
Posted on 02/09/2011 2:54:05 AM PST by crosslink
Edited on 02/09/2011 6:51:12 AM PST by Admin Moderator.
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Several sources familiar with the ongoing investigation tell WTOP fire and police investigators believe the radiator in Turton's 2008 BMW X5 was punctured when it rolled into a workbench. The halogen headlights, which emit a bluish light and illuminate the road better than conventional headlights, stayed on after the radiator was punctured.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: antifreeze; ashleyturton; atf; bmw; cultureofcorruption; democratscandals; lobbyist; lowspeedcrash; obamascandals; progressive; suv; turton
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This is getting very interesting, so a fire is caused by antifreeze? Even so why did she not just jump out of the vehicle? What headlight burns at 240degrees? No cause of death?
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posted on
02/09/2011 2:54:11 AM PST
by
crosslink
To: crosslink
No cause of death? ... Let me speculate: zero won't release the long form death certificate.
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posted on
02/09/2011 2:56:16 AM PST
by
C210N
(0bama, Making the US safe for Global Marxism)
To: crosslink
Put me in the category of someone who finds those new bluish halogen headlights to be a road hazard to oncoming traffic. Why the DOT approved them is beyond me.
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posted on
02/09/2011 3:01:59 AM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: crosslink
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posted on
02/09/2011 3:04:34 AM PST
by
crosslink
(Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
To: crosslink
It says she was “stricken and unconscious” before the fire but it doesn't give a reason? No autopsy?
Those headlights may be good for the driver but they are hard on the drivers coming the other way.
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posted on
02/09/2011 3:06:00 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: crosslink
Actually that’s not the “original” thread. That’s a “related” thread. This is a different article, with additional information, published on a different website, regarding the same incident.
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posted on
02/09/2011 3:07:47 AM PST
by
SpaceBar
To: SpaceBar
Sorry it is early ,thank you for clarifying.
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posted on
02/09/2011 3:09:58 AM PST
by
crosslink
(Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
To: crosslink
..she missed the turn at Fort Marcy Park
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posted on
02/09/2011 3:12:43 AM PST
by
Doogle
((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
To: Ditter
Thank you I was speed reading and missed that so she was unconscious before the fire?
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posted on
02/09/2011 3:16:26 AM PST
by
crosslink
(Moderates should play in the middle of a busy street)
To: crosslink
The antifreeze we use in cars is mostly a mixture of water and ethylene glycol. It has an MSDS flammability rate of 0. I suppose if you boiled all the water out of it you might get it to burn. Sounds mighty strange to me.
MSDS sheet for prediluted Antifreeze
To: crosslink
The last sentence of the articles say the autopsy was pending.
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posted on
02/09/2011 3:21:17 AM PST
by
Ditter
To: SpaceBar
I think you mean the xenon lamps.
To: crosslink
These and other new halogen headlights are not sealed beam.They do emit heat but the housings are all plastic so that doesn’t wash with me that they are 240 degrees or hot enough to ignite antifreeze. This will now cause me to break out the infrared pyrometer to do some spot checking to see what temperatures they are getting.
This sounds much more of a coverup looking for an excuse that people will gobble up. When a car overheats for whatever reason, the temps of the coolant will exceed this 240 mark. So maybe they need to explain to me why cars all over this country overheating are not bursting out in flames at the same time.
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posted on
02/09/2011 3:26:38 AM PST
by
mazda77
(Mike Hogan - JAX Mayor)
To: crosslink
No mention of a criminal investigation. HMMM....seems those spouses in DC sure do love to home barbecue themselves in their cars these days.
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posted on
02/09/2011 3:29:01 AM PST
by
Earthdweller
(Harvard won the election again...so what's the problem.......? Embrace a ruler today.)
To: crosslink
She was unconscious before the fire but.....
“From the start, investigators have not suspected foul play.”
Did she have a condition where she frequently blacked out? If so why would she be allowed to drive a car.
To: crosslink
The more interesting thread is why was she killed. Domestic dispute or something she overheard at home?
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posted on
02/09/2011 3:32:43 AM PST
by
Lessthantolerant
(The State is diametrically opposed to our search for a better living.)
To: crosslink
Ii wouldn't be surprised if alcohol was involved.
Leni
To: crosslink
It’s been nearly a month, and this is all they’ve come up with?
To: crosslink
It sounds to me like the car might have had an electrical fault in the Center Fuel Tank.
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posted on
02/09/2011 3:39:32 AM PST
by
Haiku Guy
(You can't beat something with nothing, no matter how bad that something is.)
To: Haiku Guy
Dod anyone see any contrails?
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posted on
02/09/2011 3:40:52 AM PST
by
Lessthantolerant
(The State is diametrically opposed to our search for a better living.)
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