Two companies have agreed to pay $5 million to the parents of a woman killed outside a Ballwin urgent care by a driver who huffed inhalants before the crash.
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Marissa Politte was killed by a driver who huffed Whip-It! gas shortly before the crash. The jury wanted a verdict "big enough to put people out of business."
Marissa Politte was 25 years old when she was struck and killed by a driver who had just inhaled nitrous oxide from a product used to make whipped cream.
Whip Its are for gourmet whip cream. Instead, a man bought the nitrous oxide containers at a smoke shop in 2020, passed out behind the wheel and killed a woman.