This woman chose to drive her car despite the fact her judgment and everything about her were grossly impaired.
That didn’t mitigate her actions and it only compounded her offense.
[This woman chose to drive her car despite the fact her judgment and everything about her were grossly impaired.
That didn’t mitigate her actions and it only compounded her offense.]
If her personality had been inherently cautious, she’d have lowered her speed to compensate for her drunken state. A collision at 20 would have caused damage to the car she hit, but no fatalities. While murder convictions and multi-decade prison terms are a great improvement on what used to pass for justice in cases of vehicular homicide - a suspended license and a few months in prison - there is a sense in which what happened was pre-ordained, once she went past a certain BAC and stepped into her vehicle. Sad on all counts.