OK, after I heard about Patti's untimely passing I googled and googled to try to make some sense of it all.
I found some video from local stations and newspaper articles. Patti lived maybe a mile from where she died on the freeway.
For her to get on the freeway the wrong way the night she died she would have had to drive the correct way down a one way frontage road, then make a 180 degree turn to go down the off ramp into oncoming freeway traffic. Eye witness accounts say she drove straight towards the SUV she collided with.
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The map above is the off ramp she took. She had to turn 180 degrees to get on that off ramp and pass numerous DO NOT ENTER and WRONG WAY signs.
Toxicology tests were negative. Patti was not impaired.
So apparently she knew what she was doing. What was so bad in her life that killing herself and her kids somehow became her only option?
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Why did her husband say this? Evans told DPS officers at the scene, "I knew she would do something like this."
Why did her husband tell three different stories about the night she died?
#1:
According to Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Tony Mure, witnesses reported that Evans was driving with the two boys in the back seat of her car, traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of the freeway when she collided head-on with another vehicle.
Evans was pronounced dead at the scene.
People who live near the accident scene said they heard the crash.
They say a man appeared moments later, wondering if the car he saw across the freeway belonged to his wife.
He told neighbors his wife was 40 minutes late returning home."He ran across the freeway and I saw him approach the car and there were all the medics and the fire department," said neighbor Stryker Aiton. "He just collapsed."
Neighbor Roberta Henning said the man tried calling 911 first, but frustrated, he just ran across several lanes to find out if the red Honda belonged to his wife.
#2:
What happened just after the wreck seems telling, though:
The woman's husband showed up at the collision scene last night, saying he'd been looking for his wife, says Officer Bob Bailey, a spokesman with the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
She'd left the house just moments before the crash, he told paramedics, and he'd been worried about her and the kids' safety.http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/12/husband_of_woman_killed_in_wro.php
#3:
Don suspected she'd been drinking when he phoned her at about 7:20 p.m. on December 9, though she denied it, the report states. He asked her to come pick him up at a friend's house near their home. After waiting a while, he decided to walk home. At some point, he called his friend and asked to be picked up so he could go looking for Patricia.The report doesn't clarify why Don wanted her to pick him up if he suspected she was drunk or what caused him to ask a friend to help find her.
Patti was a dedicated mother:
WHAT THE FUCK:
A Loop 101 collision in December that killed a Glendale mom and her 6-year-old son "appeared to be a suicide," according to one witness.
The witness statement and other clues that support the idea of a suicide appear in a state Department of Public Safety report reviewed today by New Times.
The report details how Patricia Evans -- dressed only in a gold bathrobe over her underwear -- drove her red Honda Accord from 51st Avenue onto the freeway exit ramp and punched the gas pedal.
It was just after 8 p.m. on December 9, and her two young sons were in the back seats. None of them were wearing seat belts. Evans barrelled down the exit ramp against the flow of traffic, passing several stunned motorists headed the other way, says the DPS report.
The Honda Accord veered right, then cut diagonally across the the freeway lanes, still accelerating, until it rammed a black SUV head-on.
Neither vehicle left any skid marks, indicating that Evans didn't hit the brakes before the impact. Evans' other son, 4-year-old Reed, was injured severely.
Patricia Evans was an alcoholic who had been sober for about two years, her husband, Don, later told authorities. She'd started drinking again about a month prior to the crash, and the couple had been having marital problems.
In late November, she was hospitalized after she drank rubbing alcohol.
Don suspected she'd been drinking when he phoned her at about 7:20 p.m. on December 9, though she denied it, the report states. He asked her to come pick him up at a friend's house near their home. After waiting a while, he decided to walk home. At some point, he called his friend and asked to be picked up so he could go looking for Patricia.
The report doesn't clarify why Don wanted her to pick him up if he suspected she was drunk or what caused him to ask a friend to help find her. A Channel 15 (KNXV-TV) news report makes it sound like Don Evans was on foot when he spotted the wreck of his wife's car.
According to the report, Evans told DPS officers at the scene, "I knew she would do something like this."
It's unclear whether Patricia Evans was impaired by alcohol or drugs. Results of an autopsy and blood-work weren't included the report DPS released to New Times today; investigators plan to write a supplemental report when that evidence comes in.
The DPS investigation revealed that the Honda had accelerated after leaving the westbound exit ramp before striking a westbound Acura SUV head-on.
When officers first came to the scene, they found the Acura's driver, Kristen Roman, disoriented and bleeding profusely. She was 17 weeks pregnant and worried about the health of her unborn twins. Hospital officials later determined the twins hadn't been hurt.
Evans was found crumpled under the Honda's steering column, her neck and both legs broken. A faint pulse soon faded.
Both boys were still seated in the back. Little Reed Evans was crying, bleeding from the mouth and looked to have suffered a neck injury.
Six-year-old Dean, also dressed in a bathrobe, was slumped over his brother. A woman who had stopped at the scene performed CPR on the boy, but he was declared dead before 9 p.m. at St. Joseph's Hospital.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/02/wrong-way_collision_that_kille.php
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OK what you just read is part bullshit. I repeat Patti's toxicology test came back negative, she was not impaired although you might surmise from the previous article that she was.
Watch another video related to Patti's death:
When I first saw that video I saw the following comment. It has since been deleted:
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> "I live 2 doors down and I am not surprised she is gone. He threatened
> her very life on some days a couple weeks ago. He abused her and hid
it very
> well. Don't want to be threatened myself so I can't say details.
> Signed,
> Backyard Buddy"
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Backyard Buddy posted this to the ABC 15 TV website in response to the video. He is known on the ABC 15 blog site as chubby19. I tried to contact him but no reply.
I found some video from local stations and newspaper articles. Patti lived maybe a mile from where she died on the freeway.
For her to get on the freeway the wrong way the night she died she would have had to drive the correct way down a one way frontage road, then make a 180 degree turn to go down the off ramp into oncoming freeway traffic. Eye witness accounts say she drove straight towards the SUV she collided with.
View Larger Map
The map above is the off ramp she took. She had to turn 180 degrees to get on that off ramp and pass numerous DO NOT ENTER and WRONG WAY signs.
Toxicology tests were negative. Patti was not impaired.
So apparently she knew what she was doing. What was so bad in her life that killing herself and her kids somehow became her only option?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Why did her husband say this? Evans told DPS officers at the scene, "I knew she would do something like this."
Why did her husband tell three different stories about the night she died?
#1:
According to Phoenix Fire Department spokesman Tony Mure, witnesses reported that Evans was driving with the two boys in the back seat of her car, traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of the freeway when she collided head-on with another vehicle.
Evans was pronounced dead at the scene.
People who live near the accident scene said they heard the crash.
They say a man appeared moments later, wondering if the car he saw across the freeway belonged to his wife.
He told neighbors his wife was 40 minutes late returning home."He ran across the freeway and I saw him approach the car and there were all the medics and the fire department," said neighbor Stryker Aiton. "He just collapsed."
Neighbor Roberta Henning said the man tried calling 911 first, but frustrated, he just ran across several lanes to find out if the red Honda belonged to his wife.
#2:
What happened just after the wreck seems telling, though:
The woman's husband showed up at the collision scene last night, saying he'd been looking for his wife, says Officer Bob Bailey, a spokesman with the Arizona Department of Public Safety.
She'd left the house just moments before the crash, he told paramedics, and he'd been worried about her and the kids' safety.http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/12/husband_of_woman_killed_in_wro.php
#3:
Don suspected she'd been drinking when he phoned her at about 7:20 p.m. on December 9, though she denied it, the report states. He asked her to come pick him up at a friend's house near their home. After waiting a while, he decided to walk home. At some point, he called his friend and asked to be picked up so he could go looking for Patricia.The report doesn't clarify why Don wanted her to pick him up if he suspected she was drunk or what caused him to ask a friend to help find her.
Patti was a dedicated mother:
WHAT THE FUCK:
A Loop 101 collision in December that killed a Glendale mom and her 6-year-old son "appeared to be a suicide," according to one witness.
The witness statement and other clues that support the idea of a suicide appear in a state Department of Public Safety report reviewed today by New Times.
The report details how Patricia Evans -- dressed only in a gold bathrobe over her underwear -- drove her red Honda Accord from 51st Avenue onto the freeway exit ramp and punched the gas pedal.
| A DPS sketch shows how Patricia Evans, her two kids in the car, steered toward an oncoming vehicle. |
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It was just after 8 p.m. on December 9, and her two young sons were in the back seats. None of them were wearing seat belts. Evans barrelled down the exit ramp against the flow of traffic, passing several stunned motorists headed the other way, says the DPS report.
The Honda Accord veered right, then cut diagonally across the the freeway lanes, still accelerating, until it rammed a black SUV head-on.
Neither vehicle left any skid marks, indicating that Evans didn't hit the brakes before the impact. Evans' other son, 4-year-old Reed, was injured severely.
Patricia Evans was an alcoholic who had been sober for about two years, her husband, Don, later told authorities. She'd started drinking again about a month prior to the crash, and the couple had been having marital problems.
In late November, she was hospitalized after she drank rubbing alcohol.
Don suspected she'd been drinking when he phoned her at about 7:20 p.m. on December 9, though she denied it, the report states. He asked her to come pick him up at a friend's house near their home. After waiting a while, he decided to walk home. At some point, he called his friend and asked to be picked up so he could go looking for Patricia.
The report doesn't clarify why Don wanted her to pick him up if he suspected she was drunk or what caused him to ask a friend to help find her. A Channel 15 (KNXV-TV) news report makes it sound like Don Evans was on foot when he spotted the wreck of his wife's car.
According to the report, Evans told DPS officers at the scene, "I knew she would do something like this."
It's unclear whether Patricia Evans was impaired by alcohol or drugs. Results of an autopsy and blood-work weren't included the report DPS released to New Times today; investigators plan to write a supplemental report when that evidence comes in.
The DPS investigation revealed that the Honda had accelerated after leaving the westbound exit ramp before striking a westbound Acura SUV head-on.
When officers first came to the scene, they found the Acura's driver, Kristen Roman, disoriented and bleeding profusely. She was 17 weeks pregnant and worried about the health of her unborn twins. Hospital officials later determined the twins hadn't been hurt.
Evans was found crumpled under the Honda's steering column, her neck and both legs broken. A faint pulse soon faded.
Both boys were still seated in the back. Little Reed Evans was crying, bleeding from the mouth and looked to have suffered a neck injury.
Six-year-old Dean, also dressed in a bathrobe, was slumped over his brother. A woman who had stopped at the scene performed CPR on the boy, but he was declared dead before 9 p.m. at St. Joseph's Hospital.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2011/02/wrong-way_collision_that_kille.php
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OK what you just read is part bullshit. I repeat Patti's toxicology test came back negative, she was not impaired although you might surmise from the previous article that she was.
Watch another video related to Patti's death:
When I first saw that video I saw the following comment. It has since been deleted:
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> "I live 2 doors down and I am not surprised she is gone. He threatened
> her very life on some days a couple weeks ago. He abused her and hid
it very
> well. Don't want to be threatened myself so I can't say details.
> Signed,
> Backyard Buddy"
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Backyard Buddy posted this to the ABC 15 TV website in response to the video. He is known on the ABC 15 blog site as chubby19. I tried to contact him but no reply.
