Posted on 11/14/2012 8:35:52 AM PST by raccoonradio
Video link below. An award-winning emergency room doctor, accused of careening through a Wellesley parking lot and ramming another car while allegedly high on drugs and alcohol, told cops she was just out trying to buy her Thanksgiving turkey, police report.
“I was listening to NPR radio ... in my car ... and decided I needed to get gas,” Dr. Kristin Howard told police.
“I was going to Whole Foods to buy a Thanksgiving turkey,” she said. What happened next on Friday morning landed her in handcuffs.
The doctor said she couldn’t control the accelerator in her Subaru Outback. Police said she failed or refused to take sobriety tests and had “numerous” pills inside her jacket pocket. Her speech was “slurred,” her eyes were “glassy,” police said, and she had “extremely constricted pupils.”
Howard, a 56-year-old emergency room doctor at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, was released on her own recognizance after her not guilty plea yesterday in Dedham District Court, where prosecutors asked a judge to hold her on $10,000 cash bail on a slew of charges, including driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, causing serious bodily injury and illegal possession of prescription pills.
Officers responded at about 8:45 a.m. to the corner of State and Washington streets, where police said Howard tried leaving the scene of the wild crash.
Dramatic footage of the accident shows Howard’s car whipping through a nearby parking lot, clipping a tree and — with the back end of the car several feet off the ground — crashing into a car waiting at the intersection, pushing it into a nearby truck. Police reported that the 78-year-old driver she hit suffered broken ribs and spent two days in the hospital.
Officials at Newton-Wellesley Hospital “immediately relieved her of all hospital related responsibilities,” said hospital spokesman Brian O’Dea.
O’Dea said the hospital is also conducting a “very active investigation” into allegations that Howard was writing herself prescriptions. Police report she had numerous depressants — from Klonopin and Diazepam to “unknown” tablets — in containers inside her jacket pockets.
“I don’t have any information where she may have gotten any medication she was using,” he said.
According to online records kept by the state Board of Registration, Howard, a 1992 Boston University School of Medicine grad, earned the 2008 Allen W. Locke, MD Award for “effective teaching of primary care” at the hospital.
Howard is due back in court Jan. 7.
I hear that those pro female cabinet builders employ the latest in construction technology - no studs, all tongue in groove.
Wild eyed, high on dope, moonbat, NPR, Subaru, Outback, booze-
Yeah, what could possibly go wrong?
That is scary video footage. She comes literally flying, all wheels off the ground, out of a parking lot, across a lawn and brakes hard enough to pitch the vehicle up on its front wheels. She t-boned the driver stopped at the light damn hard.
The middle class isn’t the only one getting HAMMERED
Maude Fricket
TV interviewed the elderly man she hit
>>’Doc of Year’ faces DUI charges after crash
Kristin Howard accused of prescribing drugs to herself
>>The driver of the Marquis, 78-year-old Paul McDonald of Wellesley, suffered injuries and was taken to a local hospital. “Out of nowhere, I got hammered, and I thought it was the end of the world. I thought a bomb went off inside the car. And then I had the feeling the roof was collapsing and I said, ‘Oh, what a way to go,’” he said.
McDonald said he suffered two cracked ribs.
Oh get this SHE WAS ON HER WAY TO WORK
>>Howard is an emergency medicine physician at Newton Wellesley Hospital, according to the Board of Registration in Medicine.
“She was wearing scrubs and indicated she was on her way to work at Newton Wellesley, where she is a doctor in the emergency room,” prosecutor Matt Friedel said.
S/B Frickert
Hmmm. According to my math she was 36 years old at the time she GRADUATED from medical school. MOST doctors graduate at age 25 - 26. Wonder what took her so long. Also ER docs (according to family members in the medical trade - I have nothing but personal anectodal evidence to support this claim) are not usually the top of the class anyway. So we have someone who took an extra 10 years to get through medical school who got some sort of BS award driving high and drunk.
WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS? TEDDY KENNEDY?
But of course this is MA where the massholes elected yet another proven liar (fauxcahantas) to represent them in the senate. I guess this is not all that susprising - I'm guessing that she IS an 0bama voter.
yup and he’s still with us
Reliving those Thanksgiving memories from her childhood. I remember when Dad used to get blitzed and we’d go sailing through the parking lots in the Oldsmobile looking for turkeys. Those are some special memories for many of us.
Ah but how about the (fictional) time in Cincinnati when a low rated AM rock station decided to drop turkeys* only to find they couldn’t fly? “As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”—WKRP in Cincinnati
*—supposedly inspired by a real incident in Atlanta?
Wiki. on WKRP:
“Mr. Carlson decides to take a more hands-on managerial approach by doing the greatest Thanksgiving promotion in radio history — dropping live turkeys from a helicopter.
Note- In 1997 TV Guide ranked this episode number 40 on its ‘100 Greatest Episodes of All Time’ list.”
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