Oldie Newbie and Drunk Drivers
One of the topics suggested, for Oldie Newbie Stories, is drunk drivers.
Personally, I have had my share of experiences with drunk drivers.
My family was almost wiped
out, by a person, from the school that I attended.
He was drunk, the road was wet and in
his own drunken words, "I stuck her on 100mph."
Only for the fact that I ditched
my car, we would have all been killed or seriously injured.
There were injuries because his
car side-swiped mine, even though my car was on the shoulder of the road.
No
matter what the cost, we have to keep drunk drivers off the road.
Do you have a story of
a "near miss" or other information concerning drunk or impaired driving?
Please e mail general information
of an incident.
Note: We cannot publish names or locations
Between two cars
A
number of years ago, I was walking along the road, in a small town. It was near midnight and I saw a car coming at me,
with the lights on hi-beam. The car was on the wrong side of the road and there was another car coming from behind
me.
I couldn't move. As it passed, the car brushed my clothing,
The
other car passed me on the inside shoulder of the road. Nobody stopped.
When I got home, my mom knew something
had happened because I was shaking and I was that I was white in the face.
I told her what had happened. I am assuming
that the driver was impaired.
My Father
My father used to drive
his car when he was impaired. He was involved in a number of accidents and some of them were serious.
I recall one rainy night, when he was in an accident with another car and the other driver was drunk as well. Both of them
were
hospitalized with serious but not life threating injuries. Thankfully, there were no other
cars involved and nobody was walking,
on that busy section of highway.
He
was picked up on one occasion for being impaired. I made a decision, not to drink alcoholic beverages because of my father's
recklessness and driving while impaired. If I were to have an accident, it would be an accident.
