| Dui
Sorry you got a DUI, but as many have already said, don't drive if you are drinking alcohol! So many do, and so many terrible things happen because of it.
I have seen these things first hand, due to the fact that I was a E.M.I.C.T. and was the Director of an ambulance service here is S.W. Kansas. I have seen what others can't even imagine, because someone decided that they could operate a vehicle in a drunken state! One of the calls I remember is when we were called to a home, and that a 12 year old female had been hit by a car. After arriving at the scene, we found out what had happened and just had a very hard time believing our own eyes! This 12 year old girl was playing with some friends on her own front porch when a young man who was drunk, lost control of his vehicle. He was going at a very high rate of speed in a neighbor hood of homes and children when he lost control. He swerved and came up over the curb, slammed his car into the porch and the wall leading into the living room! The girl was standing there and froze when she saw this car heading straight toward her. He hit her head on, went through the wall while she was pinned to the front of the car and ended up in the living room of her house. The P.D. estimated his speed was between 60 and 70 m.p.h when he hit her. Her leg was torn from her at mid thigh, and her hips were crushed. She also had internal abdominal bleeding. This girl was conscious through the whole ordeal. While treating this girl and getting her ready for transport, the P.D. made this young man stand there and watch what was happening. His comments were a mess of racial slurs and many more slurred words that made no sense. The young female was of Hispanic origins. We completed field treatment with I.V.s going full bore trying to increase her volume of blood that had been lost. We packaged her severed limb and transported her. Her leg could not be reattached because most of the bones were crushed.
My point here, is be thankful that you were stopped before something like this could have happened. On most if not all of the calls we received that involved a drunk driver it seemed that the drunk had little injuries while the innocent came away with extreme injuries of death. So, you may have just been saved from a lifetime of guilt for what may have happened if you had not been stopped! Something to give some thought too!  |