Woman Tries to Kill Herself Following Car Wreck
After a serious five-vehicle accident that sent two people to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police reportedly found one of the people involved trying to set herself on fire inside another person’s home. Police said they found the woman, who was believed to be in her late twenties, inside an elderly woman’s home near a stove with all the pilots on. When the stove pilots did not work, the woman went outside and tried to set her hair on fire with a lighter.
The 50-year-old man involved in the accident suffered non-life-threatening injuries. The woman reportedly ran to a home that was more than 1,000 meters away from the scene of the car wreck. The five vehicles involved in the wreck were found spread across the sidewalks on both sides of the street where the accident occurred.
Police were not sure why the woman attempted to set herself on fire following the accident. It is possible the woman suffered some sort of head injury and was not aware of what she was actually doing. If the woman was aware of what was going on, she was willingly putting herself in danger and she could have easily put others in danger in the area around the home. The owner of the home was not inside at the time when the woman ran into the home but if the woman had successfully started a fire, it could have spread far if it could not be contained.
There is also the question of what caused the five-car pile-up in this incident as well. Police were still investigating to figure out exactly what caused the crash. Although there were others who were unharmed in this incident, it could have been far worse and there could have been multiple fatalities in the crash. If an investigation finds that one of the parties involved in the accident was responsible for it, they could be held liable for the injuries that did occur. A two-vehicle accident could sometimes be serious itself but when the damage is multiplied as in this incident, it puts more people at greater risk for serious injury or death. If police find someone was responsible for this accident, they should be held accountable for the damage and injuries that occurred.
