{"id":1431979,"date":"2022-04-11T22:45:08","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T02:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431979"},"modified":"2022-04-11T22:45:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T02:45:11","slug":"police-utah-woman-says-uncontrollable-defecation-led-to-fatal-hit-and-run-of-bicyclists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/police-utah-woman-says-uncontrollable-defecation-led-to-fatal-hit-and-run-of-bicyclists\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Utah Woman Says Uncontrollable Defecation Led to Fatal Hit-And-Run of Bicyclists"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpolice-utah-woman-says-uncontrollable-defecation-led-to-fatal-hit-and-run-of-bicyclists%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1431979&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A Utah woman who police say killed two bicyclists in a hit-and-run crash allegedly told authorities the collision occurred when she \u201cbegan to uncontrollably defecate on herself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crash took place Saturday in Washinton City on Telegraph Street close to Coral Canyon Boulevard, KUTV <a href=\"https:\/\/kutv.com\/news\/local\/two-brothers-die-after-being-hit-by-car-while-biking-in-washington-county\">reported<\/a>. A witness said a Hyundai Genesis crossed into the bike lane and struck the two men just before 12:00 p.m., according to a police affidavit <a href=\"https:\/\/kutv.com\/news\/local\/arrest-report-woman-accused-of-killing-cyclists-said-she-was-uncontrollably-defecating\">obtained<\/a> by the outlet. After being transported to St. Geroge Regional Hospital, the men died of the injuries. The affidavit indicated the victims were brothers from California. They were in town competing in the Spring Tour of St. George race, and authorities have not released their identities,\u00a0KSTU <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13now.com\/news\/local-news\/southern-utah-woman-arrested-for-dui-in-crash-that-killed-cyclists\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>According to KUTV:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Police made contact with the suspect, Julie Ann Budge, 47, who told officers that she was taking multiple medications for several various medical issues, one of which was irritable bowel syndrome [IBS]. The IBS has been causing her to \u201cdefecate on herself without warning,\u201d she reported told police.<\/p>\n<p>According to the probable cause statement, Budge told officers she was driving from her home in Hurricane when she \u201cbegan to uncontrollably defecate on herself while driving, so she swerved,\u201d the arresting officer reported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WCPoliceDept\/posts\/289760913336437\" data-width=\"640\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/100069075914876\/posts\/289760913336437\/\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WCPoliceDept\">Washington City Police Department<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/graph.facebook.com\/100069075914876\/posts\/289760913336437\/\">Monday, April 11, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>Budge allegedly told police she was aware that she struck the bicyclists but said she continued driving as her vehicle would not stop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA witness at the scene of the accident stated that it appeared that Julie did not have the intention of stopping after hitting the two cyclists,\u201d the arresting officer wrote, according to KUTV. \u201cThe witness stated he followed Julie\u2019s vehicle until she pulled over and stopped several hundred yards away from the accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Budge allegedly informed law enforcement that she was hospitalized a day earlier, adding that she was hooked up to a fentanyl IV drip, according to KUTV. Authorities asserted that Budge did not pass any of the field sobriety tests she underwent after the accident. The arresting officer apprehended her on the suspicion she was driving under the influence. In 2015, Budge was convicted of driving under the influence, the affidavit noted.<\/p>\n<p>Police obtained a warrant for a blood sample and took Budge to a hospital where a sample was collected. She was then booked in Washington County Jail, KSL <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksl.com\/article\/50385040\/utah-woman-who-hit-killed-2-cycling-brothers-failed-all-sobriety-tests-police-say\">noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She faces two second-degree felony counts of criminally negligent automobile homicide, two third-degree felony counts of leaving the scene of an accident involving death, two third-degree felony counts of driving under the influence with serious bodily injury, and a misdemeanor count of reckless driving, online inmate records <a href=\"https:\/\/news.washeriff.net\/divisions\/corrections-division\/bookings\/\">show<\/a>. She was also hit with an improper lane travel violation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Utah woman who police say killed two bicyclists in a hit-and-run crash allegedly told authorities the collision occurred when she \u201cbegan to uncontrollably defecate on herself.\u201d The crash took<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}