03-19-2012, 11:52 AM
(03-19-2012, 08:42 AM)Lady Cop Wrote: i'll bet everyone here knows someone whose life was affected by a drunk driver.
Yep.
Just reading the title of this thread brought back a memory from when I was 10. A family visiting the grandparents - a mother, father, and their three little girls in their cute little dresses - attended our church. That night, as they drove home, a drunk driver hit them and the mother and three girls were killed.
In my local area, a drunk driver killed two 16 year olds and a 14 year old. Two of the kids were brother and sister - the only children in the family. The other girl was an only child. Her mother had died a year earlier from cancer. Her father died about a year later - from no apparent cause but a broken heart. Of course, the guy who hit him had a string of DUIs.
Sweden is a nation of heavy drinkers. But they have tough drunk driving laws. They don't have much of a problem, because the consequences are severe - it's very easy to lose your license there.
IMO, if a drunk driver kills someone, the charge should be the same as if that person had been walking around with a bomb that could go off at the slightest jostle.