Authorities are investigating a newly surfaced video that suggests a woman who hit and killed a man while driving in the Chicago suburb of Zion, Illinois, on Monday night was livestreaming on TikTok at the time of the crash.

The video in question was reportedly taken by a user in Zion, and it shows a woman behind the wheel of a car reacting to a loud thud by saying, “Fuck, fuck, fuck … I just hit somebody.”

According to the Lake and McHenry County Scanner, which first reported on the video, the Zion police department investigations commander, Lt Paul Kehrli, said drugs and alcohol were not suspected of being factors in Monday’s crash, and the driver involved – a 43-year-old woman – remained at the scene to speak with authorities.

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        I think it is a bad thing no matter what. Sounds like it was an accident, so even if it was Peter Theil, that woman has to live with that.


        Just want to clarify, what she did was not okay on any level. Phones in the console; eyes on the road people. But it is still a bad day when you realize you took somebody’s life because you were irresponsible. At least, I assume for most people.

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          Living with running over [Peter Thiel] and living with running over some random schmuck out walking in his neighborhood are two completely different plotlines, and only one of them’d help her sleep at night.

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            Idk I feel like the first one would be a bit more difficult. You’d get a LOT of fan mail and it would be difficult to sort through. Constant interview requests…

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            thiel would likely have you defenestrated in a florida apartment(his bf last year, not his husband), than to let it get into the news, he really hates being in the news for shady shit he has done.

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              I’m not sure anyone in history’s been able to have another person bodily remove a window from under said person’s car, freshly pancaked. 🤔🤷🏼‍♂️

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            Again, not defending her, but what? Just because she was being reckless, doesn’t mean running over a person was intentional. That is why one would get charged with something like manslaughter rather than murder. Or maybe she was saying “I’m about to run this guy over. Watch this.” But that wasn’t in the story.

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          Something tells me she’s more worried about herself than others, or this wouldn’t have happened in the first place. She deserves the guilt, but her behavior shows a serious lack of empathy in the first place.