unreal crash!!!!

[lgKido]

Originally Posted by Mdipinto

And that is why I don't get in my car until 1 hour after my first beer, or 3 hours after my second... and after the third is only next day...
And I tell everyone that... no one really believes me... I tell my girlfriend to stop drinking and driving, and she just gets annoyed that I'm always bugging her, and she still do it...

Don't give up. Drinking & driving is a sure recipe for disaster. Tell her to learn from me. Being responsible for someone's death is not an easy thing to live with. I tell everyone I know not to drink and drive, and the same goes for this forum. Just don't do it........

[lgKido]

Originally Posted by SabotAndHeat

You seriously couldnt have dodged jail time on that one.

I didn't dodge anything. I admitted my fault and was sentenced to prison....

[lgKido]

Originally Posted by Mr.Jgunn65

You should not even be here. You deserve everything you got. I hope you will be ready come judgement day.

I know that, and have never denied it. I will spend the rest of my life in sorrow, penance and spreading the message to not drink and drive. But let's not forget that speed kills too. And there are many members on the forum who do race on city streets, and I tell them the same thing.........

[HumanWiki]

Originally Posted by lgKido

Why does everyone think it was the driver's fault? For all we know, someone could have run a stop sign and hit this car. That happened to me once and the results look very similar. Only problem, I was the one that ran the stop sign and the car I hit, the girl died. It was my fault because I had been drinking. Sure there were extenuating circumstances like fog, but the bottom line is I SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DRIVING. So let's hope all is well because it's not an easy thing to live with..........

At least you can openly admit to your wrong doing. A friend of mine lost his sister and mother in a situation just like this. Drunk driver lived. They both died. She cut my hair for my entire childhood and was very involved in our Scout Troop.. So.. I knew her very well.. The loss hit me, even though it wasn't my mother and sister.

I'm not going to lecture you on what you did.. As you said. You have to live with that knowledge the remainder of your life.

I can kinda understand people on here going off on you like they are, but, I'd be willing to bet that a great deal of people reading this have done monumentally stupid things at one point or another in their lives.. Most just get lucky and never really hurt or kill anyone. It's truly hypocritical the way society acts towards those that lose that dice roll.

Yes, drinking and driving is illegal and dangerous.. But, those of you getting self-righteous better have 100% clean slates yourselves before you start chastising this person -- otherwise, you're just an internet tough guy hypocrite. There have been many people on here admitting to excessive (trip digit) speeding, racing, etc...

[Supermaro585HP]

Wait a minute!!! To all the asses on here giving this guy shit, get real.. I bet eveyone on here has drove at least one time buzzed. I can't believe that you guys are giving him shit. We all know he didn't do it on purpose. Holy shit!!

[90503]

Originally Posted by HumanWiki

At least you can openly admit to your wrong doing. A friend of mine lost his sister and mother in a situation just like this. Drunk driver lived. They both died. She cut my hair for my entire childhood and was very involved in our Scout Troop.. So.. I knew her very well.. The loss hit me, even though it wasn't my mother and sister.

I'm not going to lecture you on what you did.. As you said. You have to live with that knowledge the remainder of your life.

I can kinda understand people on here going off on you like they are, but, I'd be willing to bet that a great deal of people reading this have done monumentally stupid things at one point or another in their lives.. Most just get lucky and never really hurt or kill anyone. It's truly hypocritical the way society acts towards those that lose that dice roll.

Yes, drinking and driving is illegal and dangerous.. But, those of you getting self-righteous better have 100% clean slates yourselves before you start chastising this person -- otherwise, you're just an internet tough guy hypocrite. There have been many people on here admitting to excessive (trip digit) speeding, racing, etc...

I'll second all of the above....Tragic things happen in the blink of an eye, whether you cause them or are affected by others....There is forgiveness and redemption. It's the mark of a civilized society. There is also justice and punishment...a balance between the two is always a subject of debate...

The guy who admits to having caused a loss of life is a rare thing to see, and unfortunately will probably be ignored, and his lessons learned unheeded by others for the most part...Peace!

[soloknight6]

Originally Posted by Supermaro585HP

Wait a minute!!! To all the asses on here giving this guy shit, get real.. I bet eveyone on here has drove at least one time buzzed. I can't believe that you guys are giving him shit. We all know he didn't do it on purpose. Holy shit!!

I havent. I dont drink.

[HumanWiki]

Originally Posted by 90503

I'll second all of the above....Tragic things happen in the blink of an eye, whether you cause them or are affected by others....There is forgiveness and redemption. It's the mark of a civilized society. There is also justice and punishment...a balance between the two is always a subject of debate...

The guy who admits to having caused a loss of life is a rare thing to see, and unfortunately will probably be ignored, and his lessons learned unheeded by others for the most part...Peace!

When I was 19, I worked as a C.Ph.T in a Pharmacy filling prescriptions, mixing meds, etc. One day, a woman and an infant came in with an order for the child for some anti-biotics. I incorrectly typed in tbs instead of tsp in to the system for the dosing requirements (a 3x dose difference). The label had been printed and affixed to the the medicine bottle already. The patients were waiting in the lobby, so this was a rush order for them.

Thankfully, the Pharmacist, doing his job caught the error and it was corrected before it left the building. He pulled me aside later and informed me that had the bottle left written with that error, that infant would have died from starvation as the anti-biotic killed off all the helpful bacteria.

That infant got lucky that day and I wasn't right for a week....

[lgKido]

Originally Posted by caverman

Are you typing this from some jail house computer? I hope you're not serious otherwise our justice system has failed again. Intoxication Manslaughter! If this is true you should be put away for life. After all look at the sentence you gave that girl.

I'm just going to pretend you're just looking to stir up the pot here and this is not actually true.

No need to pretend because it did happen. And our justice system hasn't failed. I got what I deserved. You know I didn't have to post about my accident and set myself up to ridicule and condemnation, but I did it anyway to let people know that drinking and driving is wrong and very dangerous. I don't wan't to see anyone else go thru what I went thru and what the victim's family went thru as well.

Keep in mind that speeding kills a lot of people too. I just had a friend who was speeding and went flying off a curb and hit a building. He died unfortunately.

Finally, I'm sure that many of us on this forum have gotten behind the wheel of a car at one time or another after they'd been drinking. So I ask all to not do it anymore. If you're going to drink then get a designated driver or take a cab. Being responsible for someone's life is not easy to live with. So regardless of what people think and say about me, I'm going to continue to preach not to drink and drive and not to race either........

[lgKido]

Originally Posted by HumanWiki

At least you can openly admit to your wrong doing. A friend of mine lost his sister and mother in a situation just like this. Drunk driver lived. They both died. She cut my hair for my entire childhood and was very involved in our Scout Troop.. So.. I knew her very well.. The loss hit me, even though it wasn't my mother and sister.

I'm not going to lecture you on what you did.. As you said. You have to live with that knowledge the remainder of your life.

I can kinda understand people on here going off on you like they are, but, I'd be willing to bet that a great deal of people reading this have done monumentally stupid things at one point or another in their lives.. Most just get lucky and never really hurt or kill anyone. It's truly hypocritical the way society acts towards those that lose that dice roll.

Yes, drinking and driving is illegal and dangerous.. But, those of you getting self-righteous better have 100% clean slates yourselves before you start chastising this person -- otherwise, you're just an internet tough guy hypocrite. There have been many people on here admitting to excessive (trip digit) speeding, racing, etc...

Thank you. And you're right, it's not easy to deal with. I just don't want anyone else make the same mistake.......

[lgKido]

Originally Posted by Supermaro585HP

Wait a minute!!! To all the asses on here giving this guy shit, get real.. I bet eveyone on here has drove at least one time buzzed. I can't believe that you guys are giving him shit. We all know he didn't do it on purpose. Holy shit!!

Thank you. You can't imagine what it's like to live with something like this.....

[HumanWiki]

Originally Posted by lgKido

Thank you. And you're right, it's not easy to deal with. I just don't want anyone else make the same mistake.......

That's one of the misunderstood points of why people such as yourselves speak about their past wrong doings, especially when it lead to death.

People generally don't listen to the maybes and could be statements. They're written off as inflammatory and exaggerations of possible outcomes. It's only when the outcomes occur when people start to listen.

As you stated. Your intent is to reach others, so maybe, just maybe, this story will resonate in their minds at some point -- hopefully at the cusp of a bad decision and a life or lives will be spared at that juncture.

By the way, fellow Camaro5 people, you can be "under the influence" as well just by taking certain medications -- even prescription ones and be cited as such if you're caught. There's a reason many medications talk about using heavy machinery on their warning labels... So, don't think it's just drunk drivers that can kill.

It's truly a sad consequence of the nature of time that we can't tell who has been saved before by someone admitting fault in a meeting, a speech, a program or just to a friend.

Any one of us could be alive today from an incident that never occurred because someone spoke up about and admitted to their past.

[Wabbit]

Originally Posted by Supermaro585HP

Wait a minute!!! To all the asses on here giving this guy shit, get real.. I bet eveyone on here has drove at least one time buzzed. I can't believe that you guys are giving him shit. We all know he didn't do it on purpose. Holy shit!!

I'll take your bet.

Never been buzzed.

[robertgss3]

Trajic all the way around. ;o(