Well, what a amazing coincidence.
We will have to add that to the large and ever growing lists of coincidences.
Likely cause of death for MY's second baby? Blunt force trauma to the abdomen causing damage to the placenta which meant less or no oxygen could get to the baby and he died of hypoxia (reduced oxygen due to restricted blood flow through the placenta) or anoxia (complete loss of blood flow with consequent complete loss of oxygen through the placenta). Long before Jason had racked up so many coincidences, that investigating highway patrolman probably did not think it was suspicious. Now though? Suspicious as he11.
Traffic accidents/investigations: now we're talking something I know something about, LOL. I also am quite experienced in the fine nuances (sp?) of what an officer will say in public and on paper (case reports) on causes of accidents. THEN there's his/her own personal opinions that will not be publicly stated, as it's their opinion only - yet can come from years of experience. In most investigations, there will be several levels of chain of command reviews. Some of those can become quite involved with disagreements, etc. Questionable details will be reviewed.
What is interesting to note is that unless an officer is absolutely sure, they will NOT want to put the burden of an accident on someone unless they are really confident. As it should be. There was a recent case where a HP officer was sure that the cause of a crash was a teen's suicide, but the public outcry was so loud over that, that the HP agency didn't want to go public with that at the time. They elected to determine it was an "accident" at the time, knowing that upon further investigation, time is on their side - they can amend the report and investigation later. It's awfully hard to tell a mother or father that their son committed suicide by vehicle. The officers better have those proverbial I's and T's handled before making such a finding. That's just human nature.
And...as you hit upon, initial case reports are based upon information known at that time, based upon investigation at that time. Details can become known at a later date, which may change the initial findings a little, or a lot!
IMO, but based upon a little experience as well...I haven't seen enough to convince me that that Jason's crash was anything other than accidental. So, I'm giving Jason the benefit of the doubt on this crash!
And I am 99.9998% sure that based upon what has happened since then, has been greatly discussed by the accident investigators (actually we know that)....but the key part of that? IF, and that's IF, they decide it wasn't a clear cut "accident" they will
NOT make that information public at this time. No way. It will be held tight, as part of the larger criminal investigation. They have no reason, nor duty, to alert the public or family, or even Jason, of such a change, at this time. JMO.
FYI, more agencies are revising their vehicle "accident" forms to change the word from "accident" to "crash" to greater distinguish that all auto crashes are indeed NOT accidents.
