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Oh gees Mark, I'm so very, very sorry. I agree with absolutely everything that you've written. Gees.

I'm just glad she's okay, man.  Although I know it was an ordeal anyway.  I'm sorry you had to go through that.

Now try to get some sleep!

I keep thinking about this. My youngest daughter is 18 and in her Freshman year at college.

Christ, this give me the shivers.

I am so very glad that everyone is okay.  Too many times these stories end in horrible tragedies.  I am sorry you had to go through this.  My kids are not of driving age yet and it terrifies me every day to think of them out of the roads with some of those maniacs out there when they do hit 16. 

Glad everyone is okay, relatively speaking.

So, I have some rope, a tall tree and a stick. Let us find the prick and his balls and make a pinata out of him.

I'm so glad to hear that she's okay!  What a horrible story and just terrifying! 

What a terrible experience, glad she is relatively fine. Hopefully the law comes down heavy on this guy but if justice is anything like the UK who knows. These drunken idiots dont seem to realise how frigging dangerous they are with half a ton of metal weaving all over the road. No one likes a good drink more than me but you need to show some responsibility, just leave the damn car at home.

That's awful.

Tell them all your friends on this forum wish her the best.

I'm glad everyone came out (relatively) okay.  It could've been much worse.  Keep that in mind!  As a dad, thoughts like this keep me up some nights. 

Hey doc, here’s one of my famous LAP’s

Thanks everyone, I know it could have been much worse, and I’m grateful that it wasn’t. I once had to watch my daughter ride away on the back of a motorcycle and I nearly had to run in the house to vomit, even though it was my Dad driving the bike. People die on our roads everyday from unavoidable accidents that just seem destined to happen, the drunks and stoners out there make it that much worse. The dumb ass cabbie will probably get off without doing any jail time, he didn’t kill anyone after all, they’ll wait till he does to punish him appropriately. In my opinion, now that I’m not sleep deprived drunk, he should forever lose his driving privileges, (for life) and if he ever gets caught driving again, he goes to jail for a long long time! F*** that three strikes bullshit! However, if he would have been caught with any weed, he’d be doing a year or two, WTF is wrong with our laws?

I’m ranting again…. Sorry.

As it turns out, my daughter’s friend, (the one driving the car) tested positive for alcohol, although her blood/alcohol level was far below what they consider drunk or even impaired, she will more than likely still lose her license because she’s under the legal drinking age. Nicole says she didn’t know her friend had been drinking, who knows if that’s true, you know kids, remember we were kids once.

Tough question:

How many of you can honestly say that you have never driven drunk?

If you can say never, you have my up-most respect and admiration.

I can’t. I have driven after drinking several times in my life. Although I have never been a (career drinker) or even a heavy one, nor have I ever driven while falling down blasted, (I was actually arrested once for public drunkenness while walking home from the bar because I was to f***ed up to drive!) I have driven while buzzed.

If you’re like me, then you have to realize that every single time that you got behind the wheel after having even only a couple of drinks, that you were a potential killer.

Earlier this year, a long time drunk drove her full sized van across a median and crashed into a car with four high school kids in it, killing them all. I thought I understood how those grief stricken parents felt, being a parent myself, but I didn’t, not really. I got a little taste of that pain last night, that profound awful heaviness that settles over your heart and stabs it with dread, and I know it would’ve killed me if it had been worse.

Think about that the next time you’re out on the town having a blast, and please think about it again as you’re walking to your car. Call a sober friend or a cab, and just maybe you’ll be saving lives. Just make sure you check the cab driver, he might be drunk too!

I have NEVER driven drunk, or even after drinking two beers.  I have always used a designated driver, and, while I can get rowdy, I have NEVER insisted on my keys when I'm drinking.  As for the asshole who was driving the cab, it was his JOB to stay sober, and he failed miserably.  Whatever happens to him, no sympathy.  Your daughter's friend wasn't drunk (granted, underage drinking is a problem...) and therefore was legal to drive, but she at least was acting quasi-responsibly.  The cabbie wasn't.  End of story.  

I have NEVER driven drunk, or even after drinking two beers.  I have always used a designated driver, and, while I can get rowdy, I have NEVER insisted on my keys when I'm drinking.  As for the asshole who was driving the cab, it was his JOB to stay sober, and he failed miserably.  Whatever happens to him, no sympathy.  Your daughter's friend wasn't drunk (granted, underage drinking is a problem...) and therefore was legal to drive, but she at least was acting quasi-responsibly.  The cabbie wasn't.  End of story.  

-scottajohnson

You rock bro.

I could say the same is true of me about driving while buzzed, but only for the past fifteen years or so after I grew up. I hang my head in shame, and thank God I never had to live with hurtinig someone while I was being a f***ing idiot.

I'm so sorry that happened.  As the mother of two daughters in their twenties, I can tell you, it does get better.  Sounds just like my kids, and regretfully me, when I was that age.  How I'm still alive, I'll never know.  I won't even tell you the things we did.  The good thing is, no one died.  Your daughter had a very close call, hopefully she's learned her lesson.  Took my younger daughter a few close calls before it finally sunk in.  Will keep everyone in my prayers.

I'm glad your daughter is OK! I have a 16 year old myself and I am so nervous about her driving. The no longer offer driving classes in school but she is fine with waiting until she is 18 to get her licence.
My car got creamed by a drunk driver when I was 18. I saved every penny for almost 2 years and bought a brand new Nissan Sentra with help from my folks. I had it for 3 months when a woman hit me head on as I was passing through an intersection. 

I don't remember the actual accident since I broke the windshield with my head. I do remember seeing my bumper near the steering wheel. I don't know what ever happened to the driver but I know they didn't do a test at the accident because she was smashed under her steering wheel and they were worried about her back being broken.

wow man, yeah i never drove drunk, when i was 20 before i was even legal to drink I had the singer of my band, a guy named Alvin Green get killed by a drunk driver, he was only a passenger in the car but the drunk who hit themn just destroyed their car, he was doing 85 in a 35 in downtown dallas.  it was horrifying. so for the most part I never went to get drunk at bars at all growing up i would either go to someone's house and drink there with the intention of passing out there or i would stay home. i was terrified of getting killed by a drunk driver after that.  I know i missed out on alot of partying and alot of my friends get togethers and good times but I was so insanely fearful that to this day if i have to go out driving after dark I am UBER paranoid about everyone else i see on the road.

I am glad your daughter is ok man. truly it is a blessing and hopefuly it will be something she never forgets, i do hope she gets past it better then i did though.  you miss alot of life being a recluse. 

Kids....

Rant away--that is some horrifying news!  I'm glad everyone is okay.  I can honestly say I've never driven drunk or otherwise impaired because I don't drive.  I was in a one-car accident when I was 18--I lost control on a gravel road, went airborne, flew through a ditch and missed hitting a concrete pillar by a couple inches.  I bit through my bottom lip (now I have a hot Harrison Fordish scar below my lip) and I was holding the steering wheel so tight, I got bruises from my elbows to my armpits then up my neck and on my face.  I could have been killed.  It scared me so much that I don't drive at all now.  People don't realize how quickly their lives can be changed in just a few seconds time.  (I'm the most nervous passenger too...my hubby hates that)

I got a scar like that! Bit thru my lip after falling over and not using my arms to stop myself kissing dirt!

TBE, I'm glad everyone is okay.

I've driven after drinking when I was younger. Nothing that would put me over the limit. Usually I'd have like one beer at the bar and we be there for like 4 hours. Now that I look back on it it seems incredibly stupid but I was young. My brother, however, has never got behind the wheel of a car after drinking. Right after he got out of high school one of his friends died in a drunk driving accident (the friend was the drunk driver) and the night of his friends funeral our cousin died in the same way (he was the passenger and the driver was drunk. They were leaving a party after the friend's funeral.). So he lost two people he knew to drunk driving within one week and he's never done it himself. Neither have a lot of his friends. It was a hard lesson for them and others in our family.