Tragic. Her story is a familiar one to me, as my command's Safety Petty Officer, I had to use this as a training lecture about DUI. Only an idiot would debate the stupidity of driving drunk or while high.
However, I'll tell you all what I told my troops. This sort of thing happens a lot more often than we realize to people who get into car accidents that have nothing at all to do with alcohol. People who get distracted while on cell phones, who drive at irresponsible and excessive speeds, who run red lights, or roll their SUV's by driving them improperly, that drive long distances with little to no rest and fall asleep at the wheel, who speed on wet roads, etc. They just as easily hit innocent victims who get trapped in burning cars and suffer severe disfigurement.
There aren't any powerpoint demonstrations about those people, though.
-Mikey
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