Dwi
 

Tonight about 2000 ft from my house some drunk idiot lost control of his truck at what appears to be high speed and hit three kids who were on there bikes in there driveway.I don't know how but they are not seriously injured.One kid went over the truck after hitting the windshield
When I got there there was a bike under the truck and everyone was screaming.It was a scene that I will never forget so please remember this because there needs to be zero tolerance on this issue and even more so with the kind of boats we all own.

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If You Get F#cked Up................type Dont Drive..........

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Apart from the DWI, hopefully he will be charged with aggravated assault or similar and will see some jail time. :mad:

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Accidents can happen to any of us but DWI is not an accident.This guy was in his early 20s and it turns out that this will be his second DWI I can't wait for his third.If he takes responsibility for his actions yes you can forgive but he still needs to be held accountable.And let me also add it looks like he hit the kids while trying to get away after the first impact (stone wall) so if he had just stoped kids would not have been hit...sorry thats planned

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SLANDREW

Drinking and then driving IS NOT AN ACCIDENT OR A MISTAKE.
IT IS A CHOICE.
It is a sign of stupidity.
There is NO excuse for being drunk behind the wheel no matter what.

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You hurt someone when you are impaired........you are incarcerated........give it some thought..........jail......has to many bars and all the wrong type.......m.m.........when f%cked up ......stick to the keyboard.......

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I couldn't

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I agree.

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You seem more concerned about this guy than the kids.Maybe the kid who broke his windshield with his head should offer to pay for it.
You plan how to get home before the first drink not after the tenth.You just don't get it sorry (which he never said) means nothing when some 12 year old is spitting up blood on the side of the road

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I'm not advocating the chair, however he was speeding in a residential area, a bad driver and drunk besides. He needs some time in jail to reconsider his decisions:(

Or are you saying that he was not responsible because he was drunk :rolleyes:

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Liberal point of view- They are never responsible for their actions.

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you're a turn the other cheek kinda guy, i happen to be an eye for an eye kinda guy. your choice...just out of curiousity do you also think terrorists are just misguided muslim youth, that need a good scolding?

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yal, he needs to spend some time in a cell to reconsider his decision and express to others what happens when you make these decisions, but we do not need to be happy about it either. No one wins in these situations, sad, so very sad...

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I agree. This site has SO many people that never make a bad choice. I think that if you do the crime than do the time. Thats why when I have a couple of drinks with my dinner that I try to be as careful as possible when leaving the restaurant, but if I get caught, I pay the price. I am responsible for my actions. If you can't handle the punishement, than you should not talk on the cell phone while driving (that is called reckless driving if accident involved and you WILL be charged with manslaughter if a fatality is involved). No speeding. ( same charge as cell phone). Get plenty of sleep before operating any machinery. etc etc etc. every time some one hears about something bad than you always get do gooders getting on here and talking about how good THEY are. Good for you! Do you want to buy a vowel? :eek:

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Golly Gee Whiz Batman. Are you saying that drinking and driving is ok with you as long as you are prepared to accept the consequences of YOUR descision? What a load of horse crap!

What about every single person YOUR STUPID descision endangers? Do you think they are ready to accept the consequences of YOUR descision? I guess if you think you are more important than those people, you are correct in your assertations.


As for Slandrew, you sir are a dipschitt. There is no mistake made, just a stupid descision made by a selfish fool when driving after drinking is the end result. I bet those 3 kids would rather not be injured by a "mistake" this poor misunderstood guy made. He made the descision to drink. He made the descision to drive. That is premeditated, not a "mistake".

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Wow this thread turned into a pissing match! :rolleyes:

How do we know the guy that hit the kids was drunk? Did you see him fail the breathalyzer?

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[QUOTE=Airpacker]Golly Gee Whiz Batman. Are you saying that drinking and driving is ok with you as long as you are prepared to accept the consequences of YOUR descision? What a load of horse crap![QUOTE]

I think his point was if he has 2-3 drinks at dinner he would probably blow hot because our almighty government tells us that is illegal, even though he is totally fine to drive. And if he gets pulled over he will suffer the consequences. This thread is way off topic already so I will throw my $.02 out there. Bottom line the .08 law is BULLCHIT.

Disclaimer: this has nothing to do with the topic of this thread. If the guy was wasted and hit three kids let him pay the price.

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I am amazed that some of you guys think that people that do not make the decision to drink and drive are doo gooders and we need to look in a mirror. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: I am lucky that my wife does not drink so I can and she will drive me home. Check with any of my friends if that option is not there then I do not drink.
A tire falling off your car is an accident. Drinking and driving, speeding, and so on are choices. Some carry a much heavier penalty then others.

Jon

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using a cell phone and getting in an accident is called distracted driving.
Same as driving and reading or putting on make up or eating or tuning the radio.
These are distractions not RECKLESS ACTIONS.

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I wonder how many people here can say they don't drink and drive :rolleyes: cars and boats :rolleyes: 0 beers

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0.

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Not in all states. In MA there is no law against driving with your cell phone on. Any other state that does have the laws such as NY if you have your hands free on then you are fine.

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How Many over 0 beers do you think that this guy had? How many is acceptable?

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Getting in an accident because you were on a cell phone is not a distraction it is very careless and can be avoided, just as drinking and driving can. I ride a motorcycle and see so many people on cell phones that don't even see me. It's scary, and not a whole lot different than drinking and driving.

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It is a lot different.
It doesn't matter what state you are in if you get in an accident and were on the phone the officer CAN give you a ticket for distracted driving.

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Last Sunday night, I was laying in bed and heard a huge crash and then a horn blowing. I ran outside in my boxers and a pickup truck crashed into my breakwall! :eek: Some A-hole turned the wrong way leaving the corner bar and headed toward the lake and fell asleep. He ran thru my neighbors yard and landed sideways into my breakwall, about 40' from my bedroom! He was running down street by the time I got out there. He reported it stolen 2 hrs later. He had 2 prior DUI'S :mad: !, and killed someone in one of them! :mad: They eventually got him to confess. :cool:

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I don't. I'm in the same boat so to speak as Audiofn. Debbie doesn't drink, so I always have a dd. If she can't go with me, I simply don't go out drinking. Not even one. I can't say I was always that way, the State of Florida made a believer out of me ten years ago. I got popped for a dui, and to be honest with you, in retrospect, it's probably the best thing that ever happened to me. It wasn't so much the punishment of the dui that made me make the decision to never drink and drive, believe it or not, it was the dui class. I then understood what a stupid, careless, and selfish act it is. I could not live with myself if I killed or injured someone because I figured I can handle it. I am truly thankful that my eyes were opened before something terrible happened. I even thought how sad my mom and dad would be if I killed myself being drunk while driving. Like I said, it's just plain selfish, putting your wants ahead of the rest of the world. The reason I don't even have one drink, is because I KNOW how I am. One's too many, and a thousand ain't enough. It's real easy for me to not take that first drink, but after the second drink, there's no stopping me. I'm the same way in the boat. Ask anyone who's ever boated with me if they have seen me even take a sip of beer while driving. You won't. Don't misunderstand me, I often tell Debbie that the only time I'm truly happy is when I'm drunk, but I will not endanger other people to make me truly happy.

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He blew a 1.3 got info tonight.And he was only 20 so he has been locked up twice before he can even legally drink.
Was also in a bar prior to accident ....underage drinking in bar
One kid still in hospital (punctured lung) among other things other two knee,ankle, face trama just left the girls house her father told me she keeps having nightmares and is in a lot of pain
I want to thank everyone who left intelligent replies.those who did not you are the problem with high performance boating.My point of this thread was to raise awareness.It was like 3:00AM and I was too wound up to sleep
So we have one 20 year old going to jail
and three kids that will be spending a lot of there teen years going to doctors and probable a few knee surgery's
Cab fare and picking you car up the next day dosen't seem like a big inconvenience compared to the alternative

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For the record I don't drive or boat with any alcohol in me

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I don't want out of control drunks on the road either but the breathalyzer method for determining how "drunk" someone is sucks. But, unfortunately it's all we have for now and it makes our government a lot of money!!! :rolleyes:

Bottom line this guy screwed up big time and he does need to suffer the consequences.

As far as comparing cell phones, eating, etc while driving I totally agree. I think they pose a much bigger danger than the guy that just had three beers at dinner!

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expensive date,

I too wont drive after any alchohol. Seeing an event like that first hand is a sobering experience in all aspects - I can relate. About 15 years ago, I was in SanFran on business and a drunk passed out while driving into an intersection - he plowed into a crowd at a crosswalk after hitting a car coming through the intersection- I was in that crowd and luckily heard the first impact and moved just enouogh to be missed as the car spun through the group. Others were not so lucky.........I still remember the eyes of a beautiful Asian girl as she laid partially under the car and what appeared to be her family around her.....she was conscious but no emotion in her eyes - my guess was paralysis - others had many significant injuries but I believe no deaths. The driver had passed out from drinking as he approached the intersection - he died of what appeared to be head unjuries from the impact. That day changed a lot of my thoughts and actions related to drinking.
Prayers for the kids and all impacted.

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I got a DWI {knocked down to a DUI} in 1983. The experience changed my drinking habits considerably. Same as Cuda...if I have 1 or 2, I wanna keep going. So I just don't drink when I go out unless I have a designated driver to take over. Wife is a pretty good sport about that :drink: I won't drive the truck, car, or boat if I drink.

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Was it a 1.3 or a .13 bac? 1.3 is 13 times the ouil limit in michigan and way past legally dead,.13 is about 5-7 drinks in 2 hours depending on your body weight,Smitty

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I do see there are alot of people on OSO who don't drink and drive no matter what (or say they don't). Right or wrong other than the poker runs I have been around I see about 80% of my fellow boaters drinking some kind of alchohol while boating,Smitty

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.13 test was taken about 1 1/2 after accident so was probably higher at time of accident

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I also don't drink and drive anything.
If I got a DUI and lost my drivers license I would not be able to work.
It sure isn't hard to pick out the ones here that drink and drive.
PREATTY DAMN STUPID IDIOTS.
I hope the only ones they hurt are themselves - And I hope they are single and their parents are dead allready so that no one misses them.
Preatty immature children ( can't call them adults )
You arn't an adult untill you learn what responsibility is all about.

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I would rather be in a car with a guy that has had six beers than teen age girl on a cell phone in a fight with her boy friend. :eek:

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Bad drunks giving good drunks a bad name.

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Cell phones and other distractions while driving are bad. But, if one of those drivers notices an inpending accident, they can drop the phone and focus on driving with sober perceptions, responses and reflexes. Drunk drivers can't stop being drunk to advoid an accident.

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While arguing with their girlfriend :evilb: