Road to Damascus, extremely abrasive

A woman who apparently jumped from a Hummer limousine as it traveled on Interstate 405 early today was killed, authorities said.

A preliminary investigation showed the woman was struck by several cars after jumping out of the limousine, said police Sgt. Loren Wyrick, adding that investigators have not ruled her death a suicide. "We don't have her ID yet, we don't know what the motivation was and the circumstances leading to her death," Wyrick said.

Investigators are working on the basis that the victim had a sudden debilitating insight into the state of mind that leads anybody to believe a Hummer is in any way at all an aspirational vehicle, not merely a grotesque indicator of multiple personality disorders.

This was probably compounded by the awful realisation that stretch vehicles are now purely the preserve of minor porn entrepreneurs, and ten-a-penny cackling hen-nights.

"When you look at it in this light, it's not really surprising"