It looked like a routine traffic accident, until a patrolman with no forensic training suspected something worse, but he couldn't prove it until a bent steering wheel, a security camera and a physics calculation showed what really led to a young woman's death.

Highway patrolman Tony Snyder was heading home after finishing his night shift when he got a call about

a traffic accident on Route 95 just outside of Princeton, Minnesota. It was maybe 10 miles from

my house. So I said I would do it. When Snyder arrived, he saw that there had been a two-vehicle accident.

Apparently, a Jeep collided with an abandoned car that had broken down and was parked on the side of the highway.

When I was met by the deputy, he informed me that one person is deceased, the female passenger in the red jeep.

And the other vehicle that was struck was unoccupied.

I could see the ambulance personnel working on a male who was covered in blood and he was screaming.

The Jeep driver, Steve Hollerman, was rushed to a nearby hospital.

Steve's passenger, his 41-year-old

wife, Deborah, was dead. Everybody knew her. I mean, she was that well loved. There

was just disbelief and shock. If you got to know Deb, you liked them. She was the life

of the party. She was somebody that people gathered around

because she was fun to be with. Steve Hollerman survived the crash with only minor injuries,

and toxicology tests revealed no drugs or alcohol in his system. He told investigators

that he and Deborah were on their way home from shopping when he inadvertently drove off the highway and struck a parked car.

I said, do you remember what you hit? He said, yeah, I hit a car. I said, do you know where the car was? He said, yes, it was on the shoulder.

I said, did you see the car when he hit it? He said, yeah, said yeah I saw the tail lights and I then asked him if he tried to maneuver the vehicle

or break to avoid collision and he said that he didn't have time to do that the right

front end of Steve's Jeep hit the back left side of the parked car Steve said he was

driving approximately 60 miles an hour at the time of the accident,

and he was wearing his seatbelt, but Deborah was not.

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