# Darwin in action :Speeding woman on cocaine kills drunk driver high on meth, police say **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 8, 2022, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwin-in-action-speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-police-say/971173 "2022-09-08T00:57:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwin-in-action-speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-police-say/971173/1 "2022-09-08T00:57:48Z")
Just wow everyone was high and drunk at least 10 times the legal limits … at least it was morons hitting morons and not some mini SUV full of kids > **[Speeding woman on cocaine kills drunk driver high on meth, police say](https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-in-north-las-vegas-police-say/ar-AA11xu0D?ocid=BingHp01&cvid=d9f30ae685f54134f9aa0b63dc246c7a)** > > A speeding woman is accused of driving under the influence of cocaine and alcohol when she crashed into another car, killing its driver who was under the influence of methamphetamine, police said. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwin-in-action-speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-police-say/971173/2 "2022-09-08T01:04:53Z")
Even more bizarrely, apparently none of those involved were professional athletes. One wonders why all the news outlets reporting the story in the past day failed to hear about it when it happened back in January. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwin-in-action-speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-police-say/971173/3 "2022-09-08T01:08:03Z")
It’s not a Darwin candidate if somebody kills somebody else regardless of their status. This is a case of vehicular homicide. Darwin candidates via their own stupidity improve the human genome by removing themselves from it. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwin-in-action-speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-police-say/971173/4 "2022-09-08T01:11:10Z")
In other words: Wrong person got killed, as far as the contest rules go. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwin-in-action-speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-police-say/971173/5 "2022-09-08T01:24:05Z")
Yes. Conversely if both drivers had been killed it’s a double Darwin event. (on the technical proviso that neither had produced children and passed on their genes) Don’t have my copy at work but it might be that a Darwin Award requires that no one else is harmed. In which case neither qualify. “Just” a RTA double fatality. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwin-in-action-speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-police-say/971173/6 "2022-09-11T16:13:21Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > drunk at least 10 times the legal limits Wouldn’t they be blacked out and dead by that point? I don’t see that in the story. (The only BAC I see in the story is .102, which is just a little bit above .08.) ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwin-in-action-speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-police-say/971173/7 "2022-09-11T16:57:32Z")
> [@penultima\_thule](#): > > It’s not a Darwin candidate if somebody kills somebody else regardless of their status. I think it shouldn’t be a Darwin candidate unless the incident not only killed the person involved but also ended es genetic line. So a person who already has offspring shouldn’t be eligible. Or you know, the person managed to wipe out es entire family in the process. ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2022, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwin-in-action-speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-police-say/971173/8 "2022-09-11T22:15:48Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Or you know, the person managed to wipe out es entire family in the process. You shouldn’t have mentioned this. Now all the Darwin Candidates are going to switch from “Hold my beer and watch me!” to “Hold my beer and watch me and my entire family!” You know they will accept the challenge. ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwin-in-action-speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-police-say/971173/9 "2022-09-12T19:45:16Z")
Sorry, I did my Google diligence and cannot find anything. Is ‘es’ meant to be gender neutral, or is there a bug in my browser? ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2022, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwin-in-action-speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-police-say/971173/10 "2022-09-12T19:48:19Z")
Gender neutral: e, em, es, ers, emself