Stupid ****ing Drunk Drivers!

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I normally walk to my friends house right down the street from me, but luckily tonight, my girlfriend drove the .1 (or less) miles there.

As we were getting ready to leave my friends house, we walked out side to see a mercedes crashing in to the back of my girlfriends car, pushing it about 30 yards pass my friends driveway. The speed limit on the road is 25 by the way. Earlier on in the night, I had commented to my girlfriend about how impressive her parking was, about 1/2" from the curb, front and rear tires, without scraping. On a completely straight and flat road, which is rather well lit, that stretches for about 2 miles, some car was able to surpass the speed limit enough to push a honda civic 30 yards down the road with the brake on. I ran over to the car, asked the guy if he was alright, helped him out of the car, and asked him a simple question. "Were you drinking tonight?" His reply was that he had a couple glasses of wine at his mothers house, but was fine to drive. My friends were already on the phone with the police, and the neighbors had heard the noise of the accident.

The police showed up about 1-2 minutes after the incident. They asked what happened, and promptly took the man aside. He miserably failed the field sobriety test, and ended up blowing a .25 in to the breathalizer, more than 3 times the legal limit. He was quickly read his reads, cuffed, thrown in the back of the cruiser, and driven off by the police officer.

While my girlfriend was worried about losing her car that her recently deceased grandmother had bought her, I was thinking how lucky we were. My girlfriend had to grab her purse with her keys in it, which saved about 5 seconds of time. If we had walked there, we would have most likely been ATTEMPING to cross the deserted neighborhood road, at the exact time that the drunken driver came speeding down the road.

Sorry, I just had to share that and get it off my chest. There's no need for driving while under the influence, PERIOD. This is the second time something extremely personal has happened with me regaurding drunk driving.