Another DUI tragedy....
Support swells for Ceran family
A special day turns to tragedy for a family from Cedar Hills. Due to some moron who allegedly got behind the wheel of his car after consuming 5 bears ran a red light hitting the car being driven by the mother of the family. Two of the children and the mother died leaving the father and two other siblings without the other part of the family. The situation is even worse when you learn that the family had lost 5 children (including twins) due to a rare illness.
This hits home for me as I had a former co-worker get hit by a drunk driver a couple of months ago. He was in the intersection waiting to make a left hand turn and was broadsided by someone driving 70mph in a 35mph zone and then ran another red light. My former co-worker spent two weeks in the hospital and then four weeks in rehabilitation. The only thing that saved his life was he was wearing his seatbelt and his car was equipped with side impact air bags. Still he will live with basically a zipper on his stomach and intense pain for the rest of his life. Is this bad enough? Oh there is more. The moron that hit him had been arrested not once, not twice, not three times no, this was his fifth drunk driving arrest in the last few years.
Clearly the judges are being way to easy on these people. The laws need to made tougher and the judges need to get tougher. I wonder if they would be so easy going on these people if they had someone who was hurt or killed?
Yet there is another problem. There are some out there, mainly extreme libertarians and road warriors who say that drunk driving laws out to be abolished. They say that if someone is driving impaired they should only be ticketed for what they did wrong and that they should not be prosecuted for drunk driving because its in their rights to drink.
What it comes down to is that driving is a privilege not a right.
A special day turns to tragedy for a family from Cedar Hills. Due to some moron who allegedly got behind the wheel of his car after consuming 5 bears ran a red light hitting the car being driven by the mother of the family. Two of the children and the mother died leaving the father and two other siblings without the other part of the family. The situation is even worse when you learn that the family had lost 5 children (including twins) due to a rare illness.
This hits home for me as I had a former co-worker get hit by a drunk driver a couple of months ago. He was in the intersection waiting to make a left hand turn and was broadsided by someone driving 70mph in a 35mph zone and then ran another red light. My former co-worker spent two weeks in the hospital and then four weeks in rehabilitation. The only thing that saved his life was he was wearing his seatbelt and his car was equipped with side impact air bags. Still he will live with basically a zipper on his stomach and intense pain for the rest of his life. Is this bad enough? Oh there is more. The moron that hit him had been arrested not once, not twice, not three times no, this was his fifth drunk driving arrest in the last few years.
Clearly the judges are being way to easy on these people. The laws need to made tougher and the judges need to get tougher. I wonder if they would be so easy going on these people if they had someone who was hurt or killed?
Yet there is another problem. There are some out there, mainly extreme libertarians and road warriors who say that drunk driving laws out to be abolished. They say that if someone is driving impaired they should only be ticketed for what they did wrong and that they should not be prosecuted for drunk driving because its in their rights to drink.
What it comes down to is that driving is a privilege not a right.
posted by JMD at 4:50 PM
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