Excerpt:
"The NTSB’s investigation of the crash is ongoing, and investigators continue to gather information including data to analyze the crash dynamics, postmortem toxicology test results, seat belt use, occupant egress and the post-crash fire."
Still waiting for blood alcohol numbers.
OK, now ya got me to comment...the driver was an anesthesiologist So while a tox screen was done if alcohol is there it probably won't be the only drug.
Now to what I posted weeks ago...so they did get neighborhood footage to prove there was indeed a driver. Not a surprise there. I am a bit surprised that no other neighbor got footage of the car that night (still might be)...rich neighborhoods went crazy with street-facing cameras when porch pirating became an easy high for the crack crowd.
I think I gave two scenarios. Though my first one, and the most likely (at the time) seems to be wrong. Which was that three people were in the car but the driver got out before the car caught fire.
If I am understanding all the reporting correctly the driver's seat belt was not buckled post collision, but the steering wheel showed deformity from a driver when rapid deceleration occured?
So the owner was driving, and was behind the wheel on impact, and then released his seat belt buckle. And eventually was found in the rear seat. Which leads me to believe that the passenger did not regain consciousness after the collision, the driver did, and was unable (vegetation outside the car door, injury to upper extremities of the driver, especial the hands, or mechanical failure within the door).
The driver then went into the back seat either to attempt to open the back door in the hopes there would be no vegetation blocking one of those doors, or the back seat area allowed more room to use the working parts of his body, or he was shifting to the otherside of the car to open the door with the least damaged portion of his body.
Or he freaked out because of the fire and went into a panic mode and just climbed away from the fire as far as he could, and still could not open any door due to reasons given.
(The deformity of the steering wheel makes it highly improbable that he was not in the front seat from the time the car started to roll until the car stopped.)