Migden says leukemia treatment may have caused crashes

State Sen. Carole Migden was first described by the CHP as "disoriented" when she rear-ended another car on her way to an appointment in the Bay Area. Then her office issued a statement saying she was reaching for her cell phone when the accident occurred last Friday morning.

Then a Bay Area TV station said multiple people called 911 before the accident saying a driver was acting "crazy." Migden may have, in fact, been involved in three nonserious accidents that day along her route. (One driver suffered minor injuries in a fender-bender near Fairfield.)

Now, Migden has "revealed publicly for the first time that she has been battling leukemia for the past decade and that medication she takes may have caused her to become disoriented while driving," according to the S.F. Chronicle. "My only explanation is that it is medically related in some way," Migden, 56, said in an interview with The Chronicle. She said she would undergo neurological tests.

Story by Greg Lucas here.