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so early in the morning?....dui....pathetic....

How many people get THAT drunk and drive Noontime Saturday?

You evidently don’t know much about drunk drivers. You would be very wrong to assume they are just a hazard late at night or after the bars close.

A few years ago I was driving to work on a country road in Lancaster County, Rt. 441, going up a very steep hill called Chickies Hill, a narrow road that runs parallel to the Susquehanna River. I was behind a very late model pickup truck that half way up the hill, suddenly braked hard, nearly stopped in the middle of the road for no apparent reason, and then sped up, sped up to a high rate of speed but swerved well off the shoulder, braked hard again and then sped up again and swerved to the other side of the road, across the double yellow line and into oncoming traffic and did this several more times. Many drivers comming the opposite direct were flashing their high beams as a warning.

I obviously kept well behind this very erratic and dangerous driver and didn’t attempt to pass but I did try to get close enough to get a plate number and once I got it, I then pulled off to the side of the road and called 9-11 on my cell phone. And I evidently wasn’t the only one calling it in.

I got back on the road but around the next curve saw the pickup truck on the side of the road, half in a ditch so I pulled up behind it, put my flashers on and called 9-11 again. The driver appeared to be passed out and slumped over the steering wheel and I was concerned that perhaps the driver was having a medical emergency or was injured but the 9-11 operator advised me to stay in my car until the police arrived and less than 30 seconds later, two police cars pulled up.

I stayed in my car and eventually I saw them getting a young woman, a petit pretty blonde woman, probably no older than her early 30’s, out of the truck, and then after she staggered around and waved her arms around wildly and evidently arguing and not being cooperative, the cops cuffing her.

Then one of the cops came up and asked me if I was one of the people who had called 9-11 and I said yes. He took a statement from me as to what I had observed and then I asked him, “Is the driver OK?” and he said, “Well sort of.” I asked if she was drunk and the cop said, “I can’t say for sure but there was a very strong odor of alcohol on her breath, in the vehicle, and at least a dozen empty beer cans in the cap and an open and half empty bottle of Jack Daniels in the consoled. Her speech is very slurred, her eyes bloodshot and she’s refusing to take a breathalyzer or a sobriety check, so based on that, she’s going to jail.” “Good” I said, and the cop thanked me for calling it in and told me that I would be contacted later on my statement if needed, which I never was. As I pulled away and drove past, I saw her doubled over in handcuffs and puking her guts out.

This BTW was at 7:30 in the morning!

And less than a ¼ mile up the road from where she crashed into a ditch and was arrested, is a school bus stop were at least two dozen kids were standing along the side of the road, waiting for their bus.

I have no sympathy for drunk drivers.