Woman dies while trying to apply makeup and driving

[teforde23]

Most drivers have done it - fiddled with a CD, talked on a cell phone or scolded a child while behind the wheel, getting momentarily distracted from the road.

But a Yonkers woman who tried another mundane task while driving - putting on her makeup - paid a terrible price yesterday when she lost control of her car on the Henry Hudson Parkway in the Bronx and slammed into a tree, police said.

Lusaed Perez, 34, went into cardiac arrest and later died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Yonkers, police said.

"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.

Witnesses driving alongside Perez told cops they saw her applying makeup as she drove, the source said.

But a family friend doubted the story.

"She doesn't even really wear makeup," said Alberto Irizarry, 31, who stopped by Perez's and her husband's home last night to fetch some belongings. "Just when she goes to church, or for a special occasion. I'm still kind of in shock. I couldn't stop crying earlier."

Neighbors at the seven-story building where Perez's husband, Jose, is the superintendent described her as quiet and pretty.

Her family was due to arrive in New York from Florida last night to spend the holidays with Perez, Irizarry said.

"She was very fun and loving. She used to joke around a lot. She made people laugh," he said.

Instead of arriving last night to see Perez for the holiday, her family changed their reservations, he added.

"They came up this afternoon instead."

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/sto...p-405876c.html

[Grimmlok]

Natural selection

[greysfang]

And they say Darwinism is fake.

[KrisNine]

I see it everyday and always think something like this is going to happen.

[crumpet]

I see it everyday and always think something like this is going to happen.

Yeah, we all see stuff that is bound to happen.......to someone else. Nobody ever thinks of this happening to them.

[Grimmlok]

It's that lack of forethought that gets people wrapped around trees

[MrsDark]

Doesn't she know this is what long stoplights are for?

[DeChayz]

At least she didn't take anyone else out with her. Psshhhttt and people worry about drunk drivers...

[Lily]

"She doesn't even wear makeup" is what her family says. And there was makeup all over the airbag.

People are just.....frightening. For so many reasons.

[MrsDark]

Cellphone blabbers are way worse.

[DitaPage*]

Its official, beauty kills.

[greysfang]

Originally Posted by MrsDark

Cellphone blabbers are way worse.

Yes, I got hurt pretty good by one 3 months ago. Asshat.

[KrisNine]

I think there are many things that take your eyes off of the road for a few seconds that are extremely dangerous, i.e. cell phones, eating, changing a cd, but I think applying makeup is the worst. You're actually applying makeup to the very eyes that are supposed to be on the road! One of the new hazards I see are people playing with the navigation system in their car. They're all over the road.

[suede]

Originally Posted by Grimmlok

Natural selection

It really doesn't get better than that as a response.

[WitchHazelEyed]

Maybe she doesn't wear makeup and this was all a elaborate and sacrificial plan to show the world the dangers of careless driving..... or the family is trying to keep their loved one from looking like a idiot who shouldn't have hit the snooze button 10 times before getting up for work.