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Question

So for our final exam we are supposed to right a paper about anything driving related. Something that we have experiance in. So I kinda want to do mine on the long term mental effects of someone who was involved in a drunk driving accident. Like...stories about what it is like a few years after the accident. I am totally open to both sides of the story (from the driver and/or families or the victim) So...anyone have and stories or know of sites that people would have shared their stories at?? Thanks!

Answer 1

I have never been in that situation but I found this article and I think that you could use it............

Jan. 17, 2008

A proposed law in Oklahoma appears to be among the first in the nation that would require convicted drunken drivers to have a special mark placed on their driver's licenses.

Lawmakers hope the designation, which would remain on licenses for up to four years, will induce bartenders and others to refuse to sell as much alcohol to those with previous drunken driving convictions.

States have tried a variety of ways to combat drunken driving, including suspending licenses and using car ignition locks that require alcohol breath tests. Three states require some drunken drivers to use special license plates. Virginia and New York have proposed to do same, but other states have a tried and abandoned similar license plate measures.

No states currently require convicted drunken drivers to have a notation on their licenses, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

In 2006, about 17,000 people died in alcohol-related traffic accidents, accounting for more than 40 percent of total traffic deaths, according to the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/accid...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/20023/Poem-Aga...

Answer 2

I had a boss who spend 4 years in jail after he killed two people while driving drunk.

He told me that as he was getting out of the hospital he was with his family and the police came up to him and told him right in front of his family that one of the other people in the wreck had died and he was under arrest for vehicular manslaughter.

He then spend the next 4 years in a high security facility with all sorts of maniacs, including rooming with several murderers and psychopaths. He told me about being in solitary confinement several times after he was attacked.

Hes been kept from getting his license, and every once in a while he goes to hearings to get it back and he doesnt even get a word in before the family rips him to shreds. Its too bad because I can honestly say that he is the best person I have ever worked with.

Answer 3

the guy was forced to spend time with murderers, sorry didnt he kill someone? so that makes him a ....Well anyway I have been stupid enough to drive under the influence twice, before breathalysers and all that stuff, and was lucky enough not to hurt anyone including my stupid self. But I know that the impact can be literally ever lasting. My uncle was killed by a drunk driver. He was in the RAF at the time, the war was raging and he was on a 24 hour pass trying to get a lift home. He was killed right outside his station, by the son of a judge and was himself the coroner for the county. The driver was never prosecuted and appeared to be untouched by it. But my grandMother was a smart Yorkshire lass with two sons in the police force. Every year at Christmas and on my dead uncles birthday that guy got a card from my Gran addressed to my dead Uncle. Everywhere he moved she found him, with family help. When I was ten she finally had her reward as the guy topped himself.

rough justice, maybe, the right thing maybe

But my Gran never lost the pain, she never ever managed to ome to terms. My uncle was a rear gunner on bombers, his life was always going to be short they had a h**l of a casualty rate. Would she have had more peace if he had died at the hands of some German boy?

Did the guy ever regret what he did? so many questions we can never answer. I never drink even one drink and drive