Posted on 06/17/2012 8:54:48 AM PDT by BenLurkin
A suspected drunk driver leading police on a pursuit caused a deadly crash when her car collided into a taco truck.
California Highway Patrol noticed the driver weaving in and out of lanes on the eastbound 10 Freeway around 11 p.m. Saturday.
The female driver continued to drive after officers attempted to pull her over, eventually taking the pursuit to the 5 Freeway.
She then exited at Cesar Chavez Avenue, and, ignoring traffic signs, drove through a parking lot and into a crowded taco truck.
Two people standing outside the truck were hit and later pronounced dead.
One of the victims, 19, leaves behind a 1-year-old baby.
"[The driver] came off the freeway and hit my daughter and tore her apart," her emotional mother said.
The other victim, who has also not been identified, is a woman in her late 30s.
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When LEO try to pull someone over and they run the odds of that runner
getting in to a serious or fatal accident skyrocket. If the drunk is dangerous while trying to sneak home while trying to not draw attention to their driving just imagine how much more of a danger they pose as they try to escape from the red lights in the mirror. The risk of a drunk killing someone is real, the risk of that same drunk killing someone when they run from LEO is even higher. If there are methods to interdict and arrest DUI’s without inducing a high speed chase those methods should be used. Chasing a drunk is a recipe for an accident.
And while Kali has a death penalty in theory it’s virtually never used.
Death row inmates in Kali are something like 10 times more likely to
die of old age on death row than to be executed.
But Google is evil and we avoid using it!
But Google is evil and we avoid using it!
Was that your attempt at an analogy?
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