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I concur with Ken.

1. Don't drink and drive.
2. Don't Drink and Drive.
3. dont drink and drive.

It's easy.  It doesn't matter if he had "only a few" and "may not" have been
"technically drunk."  He drank, he drove, three people died.  He drank. He
did. No one else.  No one forced him to take one sip of beer and get behind
the car.  He pays the consequences.

If he hadn's had a BAC, then he would have simply been a reckless driver and
charged accordingly (recently here in D.C. an SUV hit a semi-truck which sent
the semi careening across 4 lanes of traffic, through a concrete barrier, into
the air and down on top of two vehicles heading south in the HOV lanes.
Killed five people.  They didn't even have time to react - the truck landed on
them.  The driver of the SUV was charged with "improper lane change" and
received a $200 fine.)

 But he wasn't drinking.  Now as deplorable as our regular driving laws are
(IMO - "improper lane change = stupidity which = you lose your right to drive
which = take a bus where you can't hurt anyone) at LEAST our drunk driving
laws are getting a bit harsher.

Let's say the guy had only had "one line of cocaine."  Would people still feel
that he was being railroaded?


"Ken M." wrote:

> x-no-archive:yes
>
> DPH wrote:
> >
> > Anyone catch the account of the US Navy member that rear-ended another
> > car and killed 3 people a couple years ago?  He drive off - left the
> > scene - and attempted to get rid of the beer bottles.  Didn't work.  He
> > was 0.11 BAC.
> >
> > Judge gave him 51 yrs in prison, 34 suspended.  He'll be gone 17 years.
> >
> > What to think?  The 0.11 BAC is only slightly over the limit.  Driving
> > off was bad but it was an Interstate and there were others around to
> > help.  State sentencing guidelines are 4 yrs and 11 mo. on average for
> > this sort of thing.  The guy didn't have priors.  But he killed 3
> > people.
> >
> > How bad of a guy is he, really?  If he'd have not had anything to
> > drink,.would he have reacted that much sooner to prevent the deaths?  I
> > don't have the info on how the accident actually occured.  That would be
> > helpful.
> >
> > What do people think about this, if they saw the account.  Story is
> > here: http://fredericksburg.com/news/stories/0325term.htm
> >
> > DPH
>
> How bad a guy is he? He's a drunk driver who killed three people. What
> are
> their lives worth now? Nothing, he killed them.
>
> With all the attention and laws that have been passed since the mid 80's
> on DWI and DUI, you would think people should have caught on now --
> DON'T DRINK
> AND DRIVE!
>
> (ken)
>
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