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Posted on 05/22/2023 7:05:04 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The alleged drunk driver accused of mowing down new bride Samantha Hutchinson on her wedding night complained how her “whole life is going to be over” as she sat in a South Carolina jail two days after the devastating fatal crash, according to a local report. Jamie Lee Komoroski at times questioned why “this happened to me” — while saying she felt like a terrible person at other moments — during conversations with her parents and friends, according to jailhouse recordings obtained by the Post and Courier. The 25-year-old, accused of killing Hutchinson, 34, when she crashed into the golf cart the newlywed was riding in following her Folly Beach wedding reception last month, was apparently inconsolable while on the phone with her parents.
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Folly:
Noun 1 lack of good sense, understanding, or foresight
3 A costly undertaking having an absurd or ruinous outcome
Folly Beach
Driving on the streets with real cars in a “cart” puts you as the responsible person. Same with motorcycles.
Sadly the bride lost her life but driving golf carts with autos has a very predictable result. Drunk or not, it could have just been a senior citizen out collecting paint samples on their cars quarter panels.
You just lied. I never defended anyone in my post.
You are no better than her, than anyone for that matter. Perhaps you need to leave this site and spend more time in church.
They call them golf cars now. It’s quite a fashionable suburban accessory these days and a lot are on the roads.
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I think you're the one high if you cannot see the devastation caused by selfish drunk drivers. If you're out drinking, call Uber next time. Save a life.
Her - My life is over!
Cop- Come with me. See this? This is the mangled body of the woman you just killed. Your life has been derailed, put on hold, changed, it’s in the ditch, but it isn’t over. Her’s is. Her life is over.
Rot in prison you Bitch.
Driving at 65 overtaking a golf cart going 19, reaction time was nil. For anyone who hasn’t driven on SC country roads at night, it is the deepest dark.. You can’t see too far ahead at all.
Let me get this straight: These are street-legal, slow golf-type electric vehicles? Presumably prohibited from driving on busy roadways BUT all tpyes of full-size autos share the roadway with them? That’s crazy.
See post 33, I mis-replied, it was intended for you.
Nothing excuses a drunk driver ... and doing 65 in an 25 zone is criminally irresponsible regardless of impairment.
AMEN
May you live and be well.
I expect her to do some jail time and loose driving privileges for a while....
the guy that ran down and killed the young man in North Dakota is not facing hardly anytime for that deliberate murder....
“An accident? Loose driving privates “for a while”? A while? Are you serious?
An accident would be something like changing lanes without checking for a car in your blind spot in your rear or side view mirror because your mirror wasn’t adjusted and you just didn’t see them, running through a yellow light that had just turned red because you thought you could make it before it turned red, failing to come to a complete stop at a 4-way stop sign and not seeing the car that had the right of way, perhaps driving a bit (not a lot) over the safe speed during inclement weather and losing control. Those could be considered accidents, driving drunk at over 3 times the legal limit is not an “accident”.
God knows I’ve had a few close calls because in a momentary lapse of judgment and while completely sober, when I made a wrong spit second decision but aside from rear ending someone (at a very slow rate of speed FWIW) at a stop sign because my purse had fallen off the passenger seat and I reached down to retrieve it but then my foot slipped off the break, my car lurching forward and hitting the pickup truck in front of me and thankfully not causing any damage to his vehicle but causing some to mine, and one time pulling out of a dark country intersection and across opposing lanes of traffic on a 4 lane highway and pulling in front of an oncoming car that I swear I didn’t see but thankfully avoiding a collision because I swerved just in time and being able to do this because I wasn’t drunk at the time, thankfully I’ve never killed anyone.
But being God’s Own Drunk and getting behind the wheel of a car is not an accident. It is a conscience decision to put your own vices and the need to be drugged or drunk over the well-being of others. And I know something about this.
Let me tell you a few stories.
My husband and I, newly married and both heavy drinkers back then, went to see a musician friend of his play a gig at the 13th Floor bar at the Belvedere Hotel in Baltimore, back then a rather swanky place.
We got there shortly before my husband’s friend’s gig started and went to the bar to order drinks. In the “mood” for something different, I vaguely recall asking the bartender for a recommendation and he said, try a “Gin Gimlet”. So, my husband and I ordered one, then another, then another then another and so on and so on over the course of several hours.
Gin Gimlets BTW, are cloyingly sweet and don’t seem that strong alcohol wise, although it’s basically just Gin with a dash of lime juice and sugar. But even after the 1st one or 2, we knew we were getting pretty drunk, very drunk and back then, we very much liked being very drunk.
After my husband’s friend finished his last set and the bar officially closed at 2:00 AM, we got to stay for a while after closing because we were friends with the musician, and we drank even more with the bartender, I think tequila shots may have been involved but I’m not sure.
My husband’s friend, who himself was not a big drinker, was concerned about us driving home, admonished the bar tender for serving us so such, and strongly suggested we call a cab or book a room to sleep it off but we both insisted we were just fine, plus we said, it was a weeknight and had to go to work the next morning (it was now 3:00 AM BTW and there was no way either of us were going to sober up in time to make to work on time and neither of us did, calling out sick with “a flu bug” in the morning).
I don’t remember much else about that night except for my husband suddenly stopping our car in the middle of the Jones Falls Express Way (I-83) on our way home.
I asked him why he suddenly stopped, and he said, “Don’t you see that Volkswagen Beatle stopped in front of us?”
I said, “No I don’t” but to be honest I wasn’t sure if he was seeing something that wasn’t there because he was so drunk, or I wasn’t seeing something that was there because I too was so drunk.
How drunk does one have to be to question if your drunk husband is seeing something that isn’t there or if you are not seeing something that is there?
I recall in my drunken state, trying to reason that it was unlikely a Volkswagen Beatle was stopped in middle lane of the Jones Falls Express way at 3:30 AM but we should drive around it and drive more slowly just in case.
How we made it home without killing ourselves or someone else was nothing less than a miracle.
But TBH, we both knew we were drunk and way too drunk to drive when we left the bar, but not wanting to admit our alcohol problem and thinking we were somehow immune from any consequences, we made a conscience decision to drive drunk. That was not a potential “accident” but a potential vehicular homicide.
Sure, when we left that bar at 3:00 AM drunk out of our minds to the point of seeing cars stopped in the middle of the expressway that may or may not have been there, we were not setting out to intentionally kill someone but if we had, we would have been responsible.
After that night and realizing how close we came to a horrible outcome, we both vowed to never drive drunk again. I didn’t but by then I was mostly a stay-at-home drinker and a secret closet drinker, my husband, well, not so much, but we didn’t stop drinking until several years later.
Long story short, some years and many horrible stories later, my husband and I both got sober in AA and have well over 35 years of sobriety.
Several years ago, I was driving to work from York PA to Manheim PA and going up a country road at 7:00AM.
There was a late model pickup truck in front of me, swerving from lane to lane and sometimes into on-coming traffic, slowing down and speeding up, braking suddenly, speeding up to a high rate speed only to break again and come to a stop in the middle of the road, and once nearly leaving the road and into a ditch at one point and eventually coming to a stop half on the road and half on the shoulder.
I thought of trying to pass this obviously impaired driver but they (she) was driving so erratically, I was afraid to. I was also terrified because not too far ahead was a school bus stop that I knew at this hour of the morning was full of kids waiting for their school bus. I dialed 9-11 and reported the location and what I was seeing.
I waited off the shoulder a safe distance behind her truck, seeing that she seemed to have passed out by now, and staying on the phone with the 9-11 operator until the cops showed up. I waited for a cop to come to me as I was stopped on the shoulder not far away, told him what I witnessed, gave my personal information in case I was needed as a witness and never heard anything.
I can only hope she was arrested and no longer a threat to other drivers or school children waiting at bus stop because driving drunk or drugged at 7:00 AM was more important to her than not killing someone. I can only hope she didn’t get a slap on the wrist and got help.
Just a few years ago, on my way to a job interview at 1:00 in the afternoon on a Wednesday, I was behind a similarly impaired driver, erratically changing lanes, slowing down, then speeding up, at one point coming to a stop at a red light but then driving halfway through the intersection and stopping in the middle of the intersection.
Other drivers where blowing their horns at him but I dialed 9-11, gave them the location, the make and module of the car and the license plate number and then followed him at as a safe distance away as I could until I lost him on a side street.
I then called the person who was going to interview me for the job to tell her I was running late. When I got there, I explained what had happened, she commended me and said “of all the reasons I’ve ever heard about someone being late for an interview, yours is probably the most valid reason I’ve ever heard” and she offered me the job on the spot.
The bottom line is that having been a former drunk driver myself, and having been married to a former drunk driver, I know there are no excuses.
When you drink to the point of being drunk as she was and getting behind the wheel of a car, she can’t claim it was just an accident. I have no sympathy for her actions but can only hope that while she is in prison, she gets the help she needs and stops claiming she is not to blame, and somehow the victim here, and that this ruined her life when she was the one who took a life.
And don’t even get me started on people who text while driving.
Our alcohol awareness guest speaker was a guy who killed his own kid driving drunk.
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