Of course she wasn't law abiding on that day. That's not what that phrase even implies. They're saying the person in question was law abiding before they uncharacteristically drove their car into a gate.
I get that people say it all the time, and it doesn't make sense when that person has a history of criminal activity, but we don't know all the facts of her life before this. That's why you're really trying hard to reach with this one.
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