Originally posted by Stry-ped: For those who NEED to know, alcohol was involved. Please keep this in mind the next time you think you can drive after having a few.
this doesnt tell me if he was stumbling drunk (which i doubt) or just a little tipsy or what. this is a significant factor imo. for all we know, a dog ran out in front of his car which caused him to swerve in avoidance. obviosly alchohol would cut down on your reaction time but this kills sober people as well. im not excusing your friend's having drunk alchohol and then driving but we havent been told the level of intoxication here. like reasonable people dont go home from a restaurant after having one drink. get in an accident and suddenly youre a drunk SOB condemned to death.
regardless of fault, i am glad that no one else was injured and hope that your friend makes a full recovery. im sure he'll have learned his lesson from that one. and please, if this was an uncle or your own father, i doubt so many would be quick to write him off as deserving of all this. you'd be right at his side crying "why God, why?!" i doubt if your mother were to call and tell you that your own father or uncle or brother were in a severe accident after having driven while under the influence you'd say "ah screw the bastard ma, he deserves to die"
go ahead, flame me for having compassion for someone who is on their death bed because of a mistake, one in which no innocent persons were injured.
Originally posted by Tourgasm:
Sometimes you can mess up a word so bad that spell check doens't know what the hell you're talking about.
