Fortunately, she didn't take anyone with her. Behold, a woman who killed herself putting on makeup behind the wheel:

"There was makeup all over the air bag," said a police source.

Open containers of cosmetics also were found in the front seat, the source said.

Perez was driving a 2005 black Mitsubishi northbound on the parkway about 7 a.m. when she veered off the road by a bend where the Henry Hudson turns into the Saw Mill River Parkway, police said.

Alone in the car and not wearing a seatbelt, Perez careened over 200 feet of grass before hitting a tree, authorities said.

I suspect that she raised the average IQ of New York City, and the rest of the world, too. Not sure whether it rates a Darwin, though, it doesn't say whether or not she'd bred.

Hey, at least with all that fresh makeup on, the guy at the funeral home won't have to do much.

I suspect that she raised the average IQ of New York City...

Of Westchester County.

Geeze, as though Rand and all of you are Einstein reincarnate. For all I know, she may have been the friendliest, nicest woman I could have ever known. Mocking her death just shows what type of people you jerks are.

Do you deny, X, that it is indeed a mockable death?

Anyway, shouldn't you be out saying "shame, shame" to warbloggers talking about that al Qaeda mullah our forces recently sent to his just reward?

X, the fact you think the US is some evil totlaitarian force shows what a deranged idiot you are.

I feel bad about almost any traffic fatality providing they are wearing their seatbelts.

If you drive and don't buckle up, you get what you deserve.

The consolation here is that she didn't take anyone else with her.

I agree with Mike; if you get killed in an automobile accident having taken no precautions, and especially while not taking notice of the road and traffic (for whatever reason - the favourite appears to be talking on a mobile phone) then you deserve all you get. Let's hope she didn't have kids, for two reasons; no kids left without a mother and no transmission of her obviously inferior genes.

There is a little story that I heard a little while ago. On one of the UK's motorways (interstates would be the closest in the US I suppose) a patrol car arrested someone, who didn't realise, even when it was pointed out, that he was doing anything wrong.

What was he doing? Driving at 93mph (legal limit here is 70) in heavy rain and spray, with visibility of about 50 yards max. Not only that, but driving while talking on a mobile (held between shoulder and face) and taking notes on a pad propped up on the wheel.

With driving like that, he's probably dead now. let's hope he didn't take anyone else with him.

I have to ask this - she wasn't blonde, was she?

I have to ask this - she wasn't blonde, was she?

It's possible, but given her name, if she was, it likely came from a bottle.