Around here if someone passes out and gets into an accident, you hear about a "medical condition or event" occurring pretty quickly without being specific. Seizure is not a terrible guess, but if he has no prior history or medical condition favoring seizures, I dont know how they could arrive at that conclusion. I have seen people crying foul that no tox screen was done as
Tiger said he doesnt even remember driving. I know the arriving officer had no suspicion of drugs or alcohol, but experts weren't even consulted to decide if a tox screen should have been administered. Maybe
@BigWill would like to weigh in on the above highlighted.
"Villanueva's statement about privacy issues did not make sense to Joseph Giacalone, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a retired New York City Police Department sergeant, who has criticized the sheriff's response to the Woods incident from the start.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen a department ever ask for permission like that,” he said. “What happens if his lawyers say ‘no, you can’t send it out now.’ And then where does that leave us?”
Giacalone said it's unlikely that deputies would have sought the permission of non-celebrity victims in similar crashes to release information. If the sheriff's hesitancy stemmed from a potential medical episode behind the wheel, Giacalone said authorities could simply say it was a medical emergency without giving additional details."