She said she wasn’t drunk, that’s all the evidence I need. What a waste of bandwidth.
She said she wasn’t drunk and she was rear-ended (i.e. didn’t cause the accident). That would be enough for me.
An arrest record make future employment a little less likely. Her blood test came back completely clean. It’s expensive to have the record expunged, and it isn’t always granted.
“the fact that blood tests — one done by police, the other by the hospital — showed she had no drugs or alcohol in her system. “
Objective tests proved she was not drunk. Clearly she was just very upset after what just happened to her — the accident, and the policeman refused to take that into account.