Yesterday, I reported a story in which the mother of a young girl was killed in a car accident as she rushed to pick the girl up from a family member’s house. Initial reports made it seem as though the woman was speeding and driving recklessly as she hurried to get her daughter in time for a doctor’s appointment. She lost control of her vehicle while navigating a turn and crashed into a brick pillar.
However, the Anderson County Deputy Coroner Don McCown has made a statement that the 26 year-old woman likely crashed as a result of going into insulin shock. The woman was a diabetic dependent upon insulin and at the time of the crash her blood-sugar level was zero. With diabetics, their body’s blood sugar is used up quickly and needs to be replaced with food. Since she was in a rush to pick her daughter up, she may have neglected to eat.
The coroner stated, “If you have low-blood sugar, your brain is not functioning like it normally does. That’s why most diabetics are so conscious about their diet because they know their risk of insulin shock,” he said in this news report. When a diabetic’s blood sugar dips to dangerously low levels, they can become lethargic, disoriented or unconscious. As a Columbia personal injury lawyer, I apologize if my original post made it sound as though the woman was driving recklessly, when in fact she suffered a medical emergency.
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