“and stepped out into the middle of traffic.”
“Police say the victim was close to two different lit and controlled intersections, but chose to step out into the middle of traffic, which would clearly put him at fault.
However, because Rowles was believed to be under the influence of marijuana, Washington State law says he is technically at fault, according to police.”
WTH?
they do this to people drinking all the time, so yep, it should be applied to pot also.
“Police say the victim was close to two different lit and controlled intersections”
Apparently the intersections weren’t the only things that were lit...
One reason not to get legal interpretations from the police. There was a case here in Washington several years ago where an intoxicated driver was involved in an accident. The person he hit (if I recall, a teenage girl who had taken a car without permission) had blown through a light and there was a wreak. He argued that under the circumstances, his intoxication had no role in the accident; the court agreed. While prosecutors may want to make the Vancouver incident a test case for the newly changed status of marijuana in this state, they may have a problem.
if you’re DUI you should never be there.