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State Police: Man drives into state worker at Ted Williams work zone while drunk
By adamg on Mon, 06/27/2016 - 9:50am
UPDATE: Bail set at $25,000.
A Boston man faces OUI and other charges while the MassDOT worker he allegedly hit early this morning remains in the hospital with serious injuries, State Police report.
State Police say the 60-year-old worker was in a marked construction zone just past the Ted Williams Tunnel westbound around 1 a.m. when Carlos Gonzalez, 59, hit him and then kept driving. A Suffolk County sheriff's deputy found him in the Congress Street tunnel not long after, State Police say.
Gonzalez faces charges of OUI causing serious injury, leaving the scene of a personal-injury crash, negligent operation in a turnpike construction zone and marked-lane violation. He is scheduled for arraignment in Boston Municipal Court today.
Innocent, etc.
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Social Acceptance of Drunk Driving
This weekend marked the 2nd time in a few weeks in which I overhead someone causally talking about getting a DUI -- in this case it was someone complaining to a co-worker that they couldn't rent a van due to a previous DUI. Go to any bar and you'll hear friends joking with one another about not getting caught while driving home buzzed.
Why is this so accepted? No one would ever causally talk about being charged with shoplifting or beating a spouse. Yet drunk driving is worse. (Or at least as bad as domestic violence.)
At times I wish cars were paper thin with no protective devices. At least people who drive drunk would be just as injured as the people they hit. Now days the safest place for a drunk to be (for them) is behind the wheel of a new SUV. That's a real social problem.
Has drunk driving....
... by allegedly responsible adults EVER (especially middle to upper class white ones) been met by severe social disapproval in most parts of the USA (barring some sort of extraordinary circumstances)?
Valid question, but
Why in the world is race involved in the discussion?
Because the consequences are different
Not that evaluating/weighing the consequences of your actions is likely to work well when you're drunk...
But since you're already more likely to get pulled over if you're a minority, and the punishment is likely to be more severe if you're a minority, the overall consequences are worse if you're a minority. If you're a WASP, you might get a slap on the wrist or wriggle out on a technicality because you can afford a good lawyer.
No, that's the problem
People are more critical of smokers then people who drive drunk.
Hate to say it but
There's a difference between drinking and driving and being drunk and driving. The onerous standards of .08, which (correct me if I'm wrong) can be as low as 1-2 drinks depending on when your tested means a lot of people simply choose to ignore it. I'm not saying it's right, but it's obviously true. As long as there is drinking, there will be drinking and driving.
By failing to hit a judge's kid
This piece of crap ensured that he will have gotten away with his act.
Why?
You don't think someone will be punished for hitting someone with a car?