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hammerdrill376:
I can't remember when it was but you can research the posts about my personal incident with drinking and driving. Your friend will survive this and hopefully with a ton more wisdom. By the time my specialty insurance was paid, fines, lawyer, etc. one FREE night of drinking cost me over $13,000.00. I wish others could read our stories that have been through things like this and not make the same mistake. Unfortuanately experience has taught me that most people end up having to learn this lesson on their own. Someone I was very close too, saw what I went through ended up getting a DUI himself. I used to do alot of "preaching" about this but now I don't. But if there is anyone out there with an ear to hear it's real simple............DON"T DRINK AND DRIVE!

LatinCoffee:
Wow---sucks to be your friend but he made that choice now has to face up to his responsibility. I'm glad no one was hurt, including him.


I hope this taught him a lesson!

skinhead002:
Speaking as a law man, they are indeed serious.  People complain about guns but intoxicated drivers are far, far more dangerous and have killed and injured far more than guns. That doesnt even include the surviving family members and what they live with.  :popo

buddha:
In 1977 I was involved in a head-on collision with a drunk driver. I was driving a squad car and my training officer was seated on the passenger side. We both survived the crash but spent some time in the hospital as a result. He did no jail time.
He later killed a guy in a drunk driving crash but that occurred prior to the enactment of the reckless homicide charge in Illinois so he did no jail time.
Sometime later he was boating on the Chain O' Lakes along the Illinois/Wisconsin state line. He drove his boat over another boat and decapitated the other boat's driver. At that time there was no DUI law for boating. He did no jail time.
He finally got into another head-on collision in McHenry County Illinois with a car containing a mom, dad, and 2 young kids. The mom and dad were killed along with one of the kids. He finally went to prison.
In spite of all that I continued to drink for another 13 years, driving the whole time. It was just blind, dumb luck that I never repeated what happened to me and his other victims. I have to confess to not having the slightest idea as to how to reduce the number of drunk drivers and alcohol related deaths on the roads. It doesn't appear that anything works. Drunks get sober for the long term when they realize the need for sobriety. Everything else merely forestalls the inevitable.
On average treatment facilities achieve success with one out of 28 patients. By that I mean that one person out of 28 achieves one year of sobriety after completion of a 28 day residential program. People who are court ordered into AA many times head straight for the tavern from a meeting and then drive home.
I wish I knew the answer to this problem.  

Slyfive:
Important message, thanks for posting, don't play Russian roulette with other people's lives

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