AUDIO – TOO EASY –
Oct. 20, 2025 – …as her boyfriend drove while repeatedly inhaling nitrous oxide from a two-liter canister.
At roughly 100 mph, Mr. Loudermilk lost consciousness, the effect of the anesthetic drug. He swerved across a 21-foot-wide median and into oncoming traffic slamming head-on into a sedan, killing himself at age 20 and two people in the other car.
The September 2024 crash, described in a California Highway Patrol report and by Kalie’s family, left Kalie, then 21, with a severe traumatic brain injury, unable to walk or talk. And it prompted her family to call on legislators to ban nitrous oxide from store shelves, where despite its well-known dangers it remains widely available and surging in popularity.
“Most people don’t know that you can get it from any grocery store or gas station as freely as you could get a pack of gum, almost,” Kalie’s mother Nekita Schofield said. “That’s scary to me.”
