I had the same thoughts as you guys...
...but for better or worse, this also popped in to my poor old addled mind:
Your summary leaves out an important point; that the story makes everyone sound like an equal victim in the “accident”. And note the “struggling with alcoholism”. Yeah, right. I don’t think trouble opening your next bottle while your already drunk qualifies as “struggling with alcoholism”. The “journalist” who wrote this piece should be keel-hauled.
I thought the same thing. The author must have started to feel a bit of liberal guilt as he was finishing the piece and so added the paragraph at the end.
I had the same thoughts as you guys...
...but for better or worse, this also popped in to my poor old addled mind:
Mario Cadena sped west, past a stop sign and into Hough’s Ford Explorer, driving the truck into Weiss’ Mustang. No one emerged alive from the twisted wreckage.
Well we all drive *past* stop signs. Could it be that THROUGH is the correct word choice here? Geez.