You would think people would learn that if you drink and drive, you take your life and the lives of others into your very dangerous hands.
Day after day, week after week, year after year, people get killed by drunk drivers. Yet people continue to drink and drive. People continue to get seriously hurt or killed because someone made the stupid decision to get behind the wheel despite being inebriated. This is a case where two teens who should not have been drinking in the first place, decided to drink and drive. As a result, two people are dead and one is seriously injured after a single-vehicle rollover.
The police reports show that speed and booze were significant factors. Three teens, two 16-year-olds and a 15-year-old, were speeding along a roadway just before midnight, enjoy an evening of boozing and schmoozing. The car veered off the road, flipped, and landed on its hood. The 16-year-old driver was pronounced dead at the scene, as was one of his passengers. The lone survivor of the wreck was evacuated by medevac to the nearest medical center in serious but stable condition.
Evidently, the teens had been camping with a group of other students in the canyon where they began drinking to pass the time. All victims were last seen at the campsite about 8:30 p.m. When the three did not return, others went looking for them, found the crash scene, and called 911.
This is a tough case. The kids willingly got into a car with a drunk driver and were drunk themselves. The dead passenger’s family should be able to file a wrongful death lawsuit. The injured girl’s family should be able to file a personal injury lawsuit to recover compensation for her injuries. Whatever the families do choose to do, death and injury often cause a host of financial problems for victims and their families.
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