The Netflix documentary about Mackenzie Shirilla.

I just finished watching the documentary The Crash on Netflix.

Here were my thoughts as I prepared to review this.

Will this documentary be objective? Will it present all sides and let the viewer decide? Will the documentary follow an agenda or advocate a position, or will it present the information truthfully and accurately?

I was pleased with the result.

I think a person who had been living in a cave for the last 4 years walks away from this movie really unsettled and unsure of exactly what happened on that morning in July of 2022. In that sense, it is one of the best documentary accomplishments I have ever seen because this is such an emotionally charged situation. Presenting this story so objectively had to have been incredibly difficult.

If a person went into this movie convinced of her guilt or convinced of her innocence, they likely left the movie without having their mind changed. If a person went into this movie confused, they likely came out of it just as confused.

It seemed to paint 17-year-old Mackenzie as a typical 17-year-old in this generation. Fiercely loyal to her friends, narcissistic and even mean to those who didn't like her. She was immature, selfish, self-absorbed and bratty. In other words, 17. Neither of her parents would receive my vote for parent of the year either. They both seemed flippantly unconcerned about her drug use and irresponsible life choices.

On the other hand, the so-called police "investigators" come off as absolute buffoons. It's clear that once this case reached national attention, these assholes saw an opportunity to make names for themselves by creating a spectacle. A great big, filmed spectacle of 10 police cars arresting an 18-year-old injured kid leaving physical therapy tells you all you need to know. The detectives took great pride in grandstanding in front of the camera, pushing each other over to grab the spotlight. "I'm detective ____, Mackenzie. I am the one who has been investigating the crash" This grandstanding asshole had to have his 5 minutes of fame.

This documentary shows, without even conspicuously attempting to do it, how arrogant and corrupt these investigators were. They didn't even attempt to look at all factors and, incredibly, they pretty much openly state it. One of them says, with a straight face, words to the effect of, 'we can't come to an explanation of what happened, so it has to be intentional'. You could see that they were only willing to interview people who disliked Mackenzie, and they had no interest in corroboration of the testimony of even the most dubious sources. One convicted felon Christopher Martin comes to mind. The screen captures of the text messages directly refute Martin's assertions, so you have to feel they had an agenda in suppressing that information

However, the most damming part of the prosecution's case was their open admission that Mackenzie Shirilla was not in control of that vehicle at the point of impact. The detectives argued that, in the last 5 seconds, someone jerked the vehicle to the right and manipulated the shifter. The detective says he believed that was Dominic and Davion trying to save their own lives.

I agree and that's why their case is absolute garbage.

Just think about what they are admitting! At some point, prior to impact, those two young men attempted to take control of that vehicle. What they cannot tell you is when.

Oh, they can give you a window of about a minute. It was after the car turned right on Progress drive but before it smacked the wall beyond Alameda. You literally have about a one-minute window.

The car turned right off of Pearl Road onto Prospect Drive at the location of the pin.

The car is caught by a building camera going about 100 miles per hour at the location of this pin. At 35 miles per hour, the vehicle would have reached this point about 60 seconds later. It actually reaches it about 50 seconds later. This means that whatever happened, happened very quickly and this vehicle was not going that fast for more than a few seconds by the time it reached this point.

The vehicle left the road where the pin is and took a hard right turn, impacting the wall where the arrow is. Even the corrupt police agree that Dominic made that right turn, not Mackenzie.

What they cannot answer is how long before that impact did Dominic take control of that steering wheel and why? Without those answers, their entire case vanishes.

I admit that I cannot prove my theory either, but I don't have to. The burden of proof is on them.

However, here is what anyone who is not a complete moron would logically conclude. These are Grok calculations using the type of vehicle and distance. The accelaration of the vehicle began somewhere between Pearl road and where this pin is. Likely much closer to the pin than Pearl road.

The acceleration was sudden and unexpected.

When Mackenzie was pulled from the vehicle, she was laying on her side, across the seat, pinned under the passenger side dashboard.

At about the point of the pin, Mackenzie suffered a medical episode and collapsed onto the seat. The seizure caused her body to spasm and lock which caused her foot to mash the gas pedal.

This has been proven to have occurred in similar crashes of people with a similar medical issue. One in Garfield, NJ, for example.

Once the car began to accelerate, it reached a speed of 100 miles per hour in about 9 seconds. About 5 seconds after that, it punched into the wall of the Plidco building.

Dominic and Davion recognized that something was wrong, unbuckled their seat belts and frantically tried to take control. However, with only 14 seconds of reaction time, they tragically had no chance of success.

This is what happened. Anyone who can't see this and thinks this was murder is just a dumb ass. It's that simple. This was a tragic and sickening accident. It makes me physically sick to imagine the terror those two young men experienced. It makes me sicker that a bunch of rabid people with an agenda would try and pin this on the 3rd victim as if she did this intentionally. Anyone with 3 firing brain synapses can see that conclusion is complete horse shit.