The SJ Merc adds that she was driving a Mercedes and refused a field sobriety test. Hopefully, there will finally be some consequences for this woman. You can't drive around punch drunk at noon on a Tuesday and send someone to the hospital. Even if you live in Atherton and drive a Mercedes. Shame on you.

Drunk drivers aren't going to learn their lesson until we have mandatory jail sentences for every conviction.

In Sweden, you lose your driver's license forever after one DUI arrest. Works like a charm!

I used to work over there.
It'd be interesting to see a map with her path and x's at the impact locations.

I wonder how they knew she was driving under the influence if she refused a sobriety test. Smell it on her breath? Sometimes there can be another medical condition going on that mimics drunkenness.

Bella-

A phlebotomist checked her blood-alcohol level at the police station.

If you have a "medical condition" that causes you to drive like that and flee the scene of an accident, you should not be driving, regardless of what the "medical condition" might be. No "medical condition" trumps the safety of others.

Bella, whatever the cause of her condition this woman should not have gotten behind the wheel of a car.

Anyone care to take a bet as to whether it turns out that she had one of those medical conditions? Anyone like to speculate as to why, if she had one of those medical conditions, she refused the field sobriety test?

There is a word for people like this: KILLER. If they can't admit to that, they are still in denial about their problem.

I wonder where she had been drinking. The business(es) that overserved her could be in a bit of trouble, too. She was apparently not out having high tea with her lady friends.

Someone with diabetes who has a sharp drop or spike in blood sugar could act this way. Not likely in her situation . . .

Hmmmm, If a person is obviously of proper age (62) it is not always so obvious how much that person had to drink (Perhaps at another establishment) Some drunks can put on quite a convincing show. Don't start looking for others to blame.
This person did the drinking, got behind the wheel and she alone should be held responsible.

Are people no longer innocent until proven guilty? To read the comments posted by supposedly well educated Palo Altans, one would think that the main purpose of the comments section is to be judge and jury of whomever is arrested, or even suspected, of a possible crime.

Speculation based on limited information is not proof. Nevertheless, it is nice to know that one's community is so full of people gifted with prescience