Well, I'm glad you decided to finally jump in and I can tell you one thing, your theories by no means would fall into the category of being "crackpot"..lol..
ITA with you most of all on the issue of avoiding a DUI/LE involvement, period IMO was Maura's absolute first and foremost priority..and IMO it was such a priority that it overshadowed every other issue that was at hand that night on Wild Ammonoosuc Rd, including her very own safety..jmo, tho..
I honestly believe that this was of such priority and concern for Maura that AT THAT TIME she felt it was easily worth any risk for her to immediately flee the scene of that accident AT ALL COSTS.. IMO she could not, nor did she ever even think past that very immediate point in time of her avoiding trouble w/LE regarding yet another traffic accident, along with the more critical issue of her IMO very likely being under the influence to some degree(to be clear I've never attempted to paint her as having been stumbling drunk, IMO it honestly is actually irrelevant as to the degree of intoxication.. The issue starts/stops with there being alcohol open/and partaken in at/around the time of the single car accident), with an open container to boot..all very serious and detrimentinal consequences that would come with Maura's being "caught" that night..
IMO this issue by far took absolute precedence at that point in time when Maura found herself in this very, very unfortunate situation, to say the least..and like I said it was as if everything else just fell by the wayside regarding any other priorities, period(even the most basic such as one's very own safety/well being).. At that moment in time Nothing else mattered, IMO except her finding an immediate remedy to avoid detection/trouble wrt LE and her single car accident.. IMO she knew damn well that time was of the essence and every second counted against her likelihood of escaping the wrath that she knew would come with LE arriving on the scene of the accident..
As I'd mentioned in an earlier post it is exactly this that led to Maura's feeling it was top priority to attempt to remove all the liquor from the scene of the accident..therefor IMO is very likely the reason the decision was made to grab those bottles of liquor and take them with her as she fled the scene..Regarding every other item of Maura's left behind, including the car, itself, I totally believe that her intent was absolutely at some point to go back and retrieve her car AND belongings.. IMO these type of conscious, rational thought processes WERE NOT AT ALL taking place when Maura was attempting to as hastily, as humanly possibly to get the hell outta dodge BEFORE LE or anyone else for that matter, arrived on the scene.. IMO honestly that's as far as this young woman's mind was thinking regarding the future, even the very, near future..Imo she just was not thinking past the immediate problem at hand, and how to remedy it RIGHT THEN AND THERE, and not to deal with, or even think about what the future held as far as repercussions and consequences of those actions she was taking to flee the scene, that night..
I'm fairly near Maura in age(I'm 5yrs older) and I honestly find her actions/behaviors to not be "normal", but definitely not be "abnormal" either.. Let's see if I can explain a little better what I mean.. Its just that I see Maura as having been on a pretty negative, downward path wrt especially those last couple of years of her life.. I by no means am attempting to "diagnose" Maura, or even attempt to say I know why she was making the poor choices/decisions that she was.. Its more so that I've just seen it with my own two eyes, and much more than just once.. When for whatever reasons a young person begins to go down a path in life that will inevitably bring about ONLY heartache, hard times, and negative consequences..The young person may be bright as hell, have a heart of gold, and would give anyone the shirt off their back..yet, still they can be making poor choices/decisions repeatedly that just continue to bring about only more problems..and they still continue down that path, and with each bad decision made the rate of speed accelerates, faster and faster into that downward spiral..
IMO I see Maura as having been on a similar path, facing these similar repeated negative consequences, along with more heartache, and this only further fueling the downward spiral that Maura's life seemed to be taking.. Once inside that vacuum of negative actions/behaviors further breeding only more negative outcomes..well, I've seen many young people, without help, literally just being consumed in this death spiral their life feels it has now reached past the point of no return..they just keep making the wrong/bad choice with every negative obstacle/hurdle that they continue to be faced with(all due to repeated negative actions/behaviors on their part)..
Anyhow, now that I've rambled on into a ridiculously long post:blushing:.. My point is simply that for whatever reasons its not difficult for me to see this from possibly the perspective that Maura was seeing this as..and that I can so, so, so very, very easily believe and see how Maura ended up in this desperate situation that night, that IMO unfortunately ended up costing her, her entire life .. IMO I can see possibly how she came to that point in time, that night, that culminated in that single car accident, and from that crescendo point it was very literally like boom, boom, boom that from the car accident, the choice made to flee, leading to IMO her hopping in a strangers car..from there..it was all over for Maura, IMO..IMO that long, arduous road that Maura's life had been on..it all quickly came to an end in those last, spur of the moment choices/decisions that she made on that night that very literally sealed her fate and IMO directly led to losing her life at some point..all as a result of those last choices made...choices that, IMO, were likely made within no more than a blink of an eye..
All jmo, tho and my apologies for droning on into one of my grossly over worded posts.. Just my thoughts/theories..nothing more, nothing less..