Any cop who releases someone who fails a field sobriety test, let alone allows them to get back in their car, deserves to be removed from duty. Let's just say he's lucky to have things turn out as they did rather than this drunk killing a family with kids by being released.
“Any cop who releases someone who fails a field sobriety test,”
Was the test administered before or after the crash?
That was definitely a bad decision on their part, and they ended up paying for it with their lives. I don't know what standard policy Pa. troopers practice, but if they had called for backup, and one of them had stayed with her while waiting for a new unit to respond, and the other one went to deal with the guy walking on the highway, then perhaps none of this would have happened.
Well I have to say I don’t know if they actually administered the test before or after the killing crash. I know she said they recorded her driving 110 in a 50, one would assume it would be standard practice to give a test if driving at that speed????