WIFE SPEEDS TO SAVE STRICKEN HUSBAND: BICYCLIST EXPENDABLE

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A WOMAN IN A HURRY ALLEGEDLY KILLED BICYCLIST

Christina Jewett
Sacramento Bee
June 21, 2005


SACRAMENTO - A man who called 911 while having chest pains in a Wal-Mart
parking lot also phoned his wife, setting her on a wild tear Sunday
night that resulted in a fatal hit-and-run, according to authorities.

"She was on a mission, she was not going to be stopped - a very bizarre
story there," California Highway Patrol spokesman Max Hartley said.

The trek began about 10 p.m. Sunday, Hartley said, when Nicole Meshell
Patterson, 34, received the call from her husband. She didn't have a
vehicle, so she took a van belonging to a neighboring day care center,
rammed through a locked gate at Mission Avenue and sped onto El Camino
Avenue, Hartley said.

Witnesses said she failed to stop for the red light at Watt Avenue at
10:34 p.m. and struck an adult bicyclist, Hartley said.

The victim, who had not been identified by Sacramento County coroner's
officials as of Monday evening, died at 10:56 p.m.

Hartley said Patterson then sped across a landscaped median into the
Wal-Mart parking lot, saw her husband and then ran into the store.

Patterson's husband turned her in later.

She was arrested on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter while
intoxicated, driving under the influence of alcohol with injury, felony
hit-and-run and violation of parole. She was jailed on a no-bail hold.

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