Vehicle accidents involving drunk drivers are commonplace occurrence and there seem to be no end to the number of innocent victims, harmed or killed, in DUI-related incidents.
In the article,”Woman Charged in Church Van Drunk Driving Accident”, posted on August 20, 2008, some factors tended to complicate matters as two elderly women were among those injured.
The collision involved a car driven by an intoxicated woman and a church van carrying seven members, most of them elderly, from the Light Oak Missionary Baptist Church.
Luckily, for the van passengers, including the two elderly, they suffered only minor injuries but the vehicle was damaged extensively.
According to the article, the female driver of the car that collided with the van had been charged with “drunk driving and driving left of center” before. When police confronted the suspect, the officers smelled her reeking of alcohol.
As an excuse, the car driver denied being drunk and said she just took a few sips of vodka before she left the house. She also claimed that she was only driving at 20 miles per hour, and was just trying to reach for something in the back seat when the accident took place.
Apparently, it was not the first time for the same driver to be involved in a similar accident and for all other accidents, drunk driving is the scourge of motorists.
Perhaps in the future, the authorities could implement stricter laws that will ultimately prevent occurrence of similar accidents.
In the article,”Woman Charged in Church Van Drunk Driving Accident”, posted on August 20, 2008, some factors tended to complicate matters as two elderly women were among those injured.
The collision involved a car driven by an intoxicated woman and a church van carrying seven members, most of them elderly, from the Light Oak Missionary Baptist Church.
Luckily, for the van passengers, including the two elderly, they suffered only minor injuries but the vehicle was damaged extensively.
According to the article, the female driver of the car that collided with the van had been charged with “drunk driving and driving left of center” before. When police confronted the suspect, the officers smelled her reeking of alcohol.
As an excuse, the car driver denied being drunk and said she just took a few sips of vodka before she left the house. She also claimed that she was only driving at 20 miles per hour, and was just trying to reach for something in the back seat when the accident took place.
Apparently, it was not the first time for the same driver to be involved in a similar accident and for all other accidents, drunk driving is the scourge of motorists.
Perhaps in the future, the authorities could implement stricter laws that will ultimately prevent occurrence of similar accidents.
