Reality Check Time - both kids will be acquitted.
Drunk = how drunk? Obliterated? Good riddance. 0.19 or something small above the legal limit, that's only drunk in news articles trying to promote drama. Either way shitty deal for a death. Going too slow? How slow is too slow? 15 in a 35? 35 in a 70? Any way around it, fast drivers make accidents more lethal, slow drivers cause accidents. Kids street racing in excess of 100? Prove it, someone show the radar gun that had those kids going 100. They'll probably both get a short jail sentence and community service for being idiot *******s on the road.
We had a similar case in Michigan not too long ago, except it wasn't street racing it was a 'at approximate 2am a drunk driver (over twice the legal limit with a history of DUI) traveling at speeds in excess of 100, strikes a squad car on the freeway killing the officer and putting his prisoner in critical condition. the driver was also admitted in critical condition'
That's how the news presented it anyways. Reality? Fire fighting academy graduate in standard unmodded ATX Focus ZX3 goes out celebrating his graduation with some other firefighters. They have a few drinks, his BAC at the time of the ambulence arrival on scene is .16. Michigan legal limit is .08. For those of you who don't know how BAC relates to drinks, 2 beers and you're over the legal limit. .16 is 3-4 beers earlier in the night and coming down.
In excess of 100mph? Not a single concious witness. Only those involved in the accident. Why was it claimed? Well because people are idiots, and figured how else could a Focus hit a squad car on a 70mph freeway hard enough to kill 1 and critically injure 2 more.
Here's how. On review of the dashboard camera in the car, captain dipshit of the sooper troopers pig department pulls over a drunk driver on the southbound lane of a freeway. Arrests the man, and get's ready to head back to the station and call it a night. Since Piggy McDeservedtodie is in a hurry he chooses to make 3 of the most bone headed decisions of his life, ironically ending it.
1) He doesn't turn on his headlights even though its 2am on a cloudy michigan night.
2) He doesn't turn on his emergency flashers, despite the fact that he's about to do #3
3) He goes from the right shoulder on the southbound side of the freeway (there are 4 lanes traveling in either direction with a 30 foot wide median at this location, I take it to work every day) and cuts across ALL 4 lanes of SB traffic, the median, and the first 2 lanes of NB traffic, at which point he's hit by the focus.
