In May 2008, two women ran into oncoming traffic on the M6, the busiest highway in England. They were forty-year-old identical twins, Sabina and Ursula Eriksson. Despite being hit by a car, Sabina attacked a police officer and ran into traffic again before being sedated by paramedics.
What followed was an even more bizarre sequence of events that ended in madness and murder. When investigated, Sabina and Ursula’s behavior was attributed to folie à deux (the folly of two). This rare psychiatric condition manifests in hallucinations or delusions that are shared or transmitted between two individuals.