
In police photographs of the scene, Acord’s mouth is open and his chin is up in the air Pasek is slumped over to her left. Eventually, both Acord and Pasek passed out. Thompson wrote in his police report, “I noticed his head was bobbing back and forth and his speech was almost unintelligible.” Acord tried to put the car in gear to drive away Thompson had to turn off the ignition and take away the keys. Both the driver, a forty-seven-year-old man named James Acord, and his passenger, a fifty-year-old woman named Rhonda Pasek, looked as if they were high. Up ahead, a school bus was discharging students, and the driver of the Explorer seemed slow to notice this he had to brake sharply, and then he started drifting into oncoming traffic, before coming to a stop.



Clair Avenue on September 7th when he noticed a Ford Explorer veering between the road and the shoulder. Kevin Thompson, a police officer in East Liverpool, Ohio, a town on the West Virginia border, was driving along St.
