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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 month ago (3 children)

This seems a bit odd.

A) Nobody knows where or when this crash happened, which supposedly involved a school bus hitting her at 110km/hour? I feel like that would make some news.

B) It's an Instagram post with only a single picture that looks... questionable??

I'm wondering if she is trying to disappear after threats were made to her. Or maybe this is a real thing that didn't make the news because the royals were involved and had it hidden.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago

Not sure about the pic being questionable. Hard to look up local news about the incident without knowing the city where it happened. Searches with her name only call up versions of this story. If there were no school children on board it probably wouldn't make the news otherwise.

There are crashes from 2024 and 2022 which involved children.

Looks like we just have to wait to see the story get fleshed out.

Edit: She lives in north Perth. There was a school bus crash reported on March 28 with no injuries. Other recent crashes seem to be other types of buses.

Second Edit: The BBC has also been looking into it and found no matching incidents (so far). Starting to seem like some info is twisted. Her spokesperson did not confirm the terminal diagnosis.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Bad April fools?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Very odd.

Add to that not being able to confirm what medical facility she is in.

Maybe she already had a fall out of a second story window but sometime didn't get the cover story correct.

[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Poor girl just got Princess Dianaed.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Would it be in poor taste to suggest the bus driver who caused the crash was possibly paid or otherwise coerced to do so? Accidents happen, to anyone, but still...

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Why was a school bus going 68mph? Especially in the UK where much less time is spent on freeways.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

She lives in Australia, so the crash may have happened there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Like, none since there are no freeways in the UK.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is the M1 not considered a freeway? I've never driven in the UK, only trains everywhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I’ve only heard them called motorways in the UK. It’s obviously pretty close to equivalent of course.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I don't live in the UK but I do drive school bus and we go up to 70 on the freeway. Some districts limit to 60 but that can very often be more dangerous because of the traffic around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I dunno. Growing up in the 1980s, my school bus drivers did stuff that should have landed them in prison.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's in poor taste to speculate about blame with very little information.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes; the royal family does leave a poor taste in one's mouth, generally.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Writing that the royals paid someone to crash into this woman's car with almost no details about the crash is misinformation. It easily spreads. We need to make social media more fact-based wherever it's in our control.

If I were the bus driver and this were an accident, I'd be worried about what conspiracy wackaloons might do to get revenge. Andrew is a lot harder to touch than some middle class Australian bus driver.

If you didn't like someone threatening a pizza restaurant, then you should be a bit more restrained about a story like this.

Already people are taking the lack of reporting of the crash even happening as evidence of a cover up.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I mean honestly, why would you at this point? Damage's already been done, drawing attention to her again would only make things worse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It would be a powerful message to other would-be whistleblowers. "It might take a decade but if you oppose us, you will eventually pay the ultimate price".

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Note for medical accuracy: often, renal failure can be compensated for with dialysis and life prolonged until a transplant is found.

After a trauma like a car crash, there might be other issues that prevent some treatment, however.

Basically, despite the headline, I will say that I hope she lives and finds a donor.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Cars are death. Literally murdering people and the planet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Of all the takes, this is the most technocit one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So she's dying and still finds it important to share all this on social media. We are doomed as species.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Some people have noted that it's very likely she doesn't have "4 days to live". It's more likely she's heavily on pain meds and was told "if you don't start dialysis or get a kidney transplant, you will die in 4 days" and in her state misheard it. She's a young healthy person and renal failure doesn't work like that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)