Woman drives 185 miles while asleep

[Saint in Paradise]

The dangers of texting and driving are well documented but a Hamilton woman has increased those risks

even further - doing both while asleep.

 

The woman, who suffers from a sleep condition and was taking sleeping pills, was asleep when she drove

more than 300 kilometres from her Hamilton home to Auckland and then to Mt Maunganui late on Tuesday night.

 

Police say she was texting throughout her unconscious drive and has no recollection of the incident, which

began around midnight on Tuesday.

 

Police were tracking the woman's movements via her mobile phone throughout the five hour ordeal after they

received a 111 call from a concerned friend. ( So why didn't they find her, wake her up and stop her ???? )

 

"Last night's events could have so easily ended in tragedy which is something I am sure, we all want to avoid,"

Senior Sergeant Dave Litton said.

 

They have sought an urgent order forbidding the woman to drive

 

Yeah that will work

 

http://news.msn.co.nz/article.aspx?id=8705774

 

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