Drunk Driver Finally Gets Caught and Prosecuted for DUI Offence

DUI story sent by my reader and published in Second Time DUI Offender reminded me of another DUI story that happened to my roommate a few years back and prompted me to rehash it here.

I once had a roommate who drove drunk all the time. When she came home late into the night I was asleep. Some days she asked me to come out and check out her car. She’d say, “Can you please look at my car? I am scared to look at it.” Sure enough, there were some dents but nothing major. I was always worried that she’d get drunk and kill someone. Deep down I was hoping that she’d get busted and could not drive any more. Drivers like her are a big danger of the road, especially at night, when there aren’t many cars on the road and the driver is not restricted by the speed of traffic and can drive as fast as she wants to.

One night she went out drinking again, just like she always did. She came home late and crawled into her bedroom. The following morning I didn’t see her car in the driveway when I went to work. When I came back she told me the car was impounded. The story was that she went to a bar in Walnut Creek and on the way home was speeding trying to get home as fast as she could. Just about a mile away from the apartment building we were living in she ran a red light and crushed into a car that was crossing the intersection. It was a pick up truck that she crushed into and her car was a sedan. The truck wasn’t severely damaged, but her car was smashed. She hit the steering wheel and her rib cage was injured. Not enough to warrant hospitalization though. The front of the car was totaled and she couldn’t drive. Otherwise, she said, she’d drive away scared of the consequences.

The pick up truck stopped at the time of the crash and the driver and his passenger helped my roommate out. They called 911. The police arrived shortly, impounded my roommate’s smashed vehicle and performed field sobriety test on my roommate which she naturally failed.

When she returned home she had no car, and no ability to drive to work. On top of that she was in pain from the sustained injury. Luckily she was the only one who sustained any sort of personal injury. Otherwise she would have been guilty and sustained criminal charges as well as civil penalties for personal injury.