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Today is a serious post. I am absolutely horrified by a story I heard this morning. A mother in NY loaded her two children and three nieces into the car and drove the wrong way down the highway under the influence of alcohol and marijuana. She hit an SUV head-on and killed all three passengers in that vehicle, herself, her daughter, and her three nieces. Her son was the lone survivor.
Read the article here...
Another man in MA was arrested for drunk driving...for the 12th time! Why is he still on the road???
Read the article here...
The problem is, as Jon Keller said on WBZ radio this morning, people make the choice to drive drunk. They may have a drinking problem, and they may need help, but they make the choice to be selfish and risk lives by driving drunk. Maybe they're too cheap to take a cab, or they don't want the inconvenience of retrieving their car the next day, or they just don't care.
But they make that choice.
Luckily, no one I know has ever been injured by a drunk driver. It has not affected my life directly. I do feel for the people affected by them, because I am far too empathetic and sensitive sometimes. I grieve for that little boy who survived and will probably be mentally scarred for life with survivor's guilt (he's five years old; he'll remember). I cry for the lives wasted, the futures that will never be, and the absolute horror of how preventable these tragedies are.
It sickens me. And it will never end.
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According to one of the eyewitnesses, she was in "total control" driving in the opposite direction. Sounds more like a suicide then a driving-while-impaired tragedy.
ReplyDeleteStill a sad story though.
But with the equivalent of 10 drinks in her, she couldn't have been in her right mind. There was vodka IN the car. Sick.
ReplyDeleteI don't disagree. I do agree that it will never end. My advice, if you want to avoid being sickened, is: avoid the news outlets.
ReplyDeleteI listen to the news for the traffic and weather, and get sucked in. And end up crying. I hate it.
ReplyDeleteHave Simon buy you an iPhone, get a weather app. Use the map traffic feature. Problem solved :)
ReplyDeleteHaha, we're trying to get me out of the Verizon contract so I can have his iPhone and he can buy a new one. =P
ReplyDeleteThe guy that was arrested for the 12th time actually did have his license taken away a few years ago. But, he used his brother's name to get a new one. Unfortunately there are apparently ways around the system. Although I don't know why it wasn't taken from him sooner...it should really be after the 1st or 2nd, that's it.
ReplyDeleteMy drunken father once coerced my drunken mother into the car for a 'driving lesson' with myself and my two older brothers in the car.
ReplyDeleteShe ended up wrapping the front end of the car around a rather sizeable tree. My oldest brother was the only real injury, with his leg being shattered in the impact.
She has not been behind the wheel of a car again. But then, she left the man that forced her into that position.
I hate drunk drivers.
I am so sorry. It's an illness, and it scares me how often it happens.
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