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Delta hit with suit for ‘overserving’ booze to husband who fatally ran over wife after flight
New York Post ^ | Feb. 12, 2024 | Priscilla DeGregory

Posted on 02/12/2024 6:58:03 PM PST by nickcarraway

Delta Airlines has been hit with a lawsuit for the wrongful death of a woman whose husband fatally mowed her down in a Utah airport parking lot — with her estate claiming flight attendants overserved her beau.

Representatives for the estate of slain mom Charlotte Sturgeon and her child — who witnessed the gruesome accident — say in the suit filed Thursday that the airline is to blame for her tragic death because its employees served husband Shawn Sturgeon at least two additional drinks despite him consuming “multiple” alcoholic beverages before even boarding the plane, according to a report by the Salt Lake Tribune.

The trio had been on a flight from vacation in San Antonio to Salt Lake City before the April 4, 2022 incident that occurred on the second level of a short-term parking garage at the Salt Lake International Airport.

The drinks that the crew served him, “had intoxicated Shawn to a level well in excess of the legal blood alcohol limit, rendering him impaired,” and he didn’t even remember landing or making his way to the car, the suit claims.

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To: Dr. Sivana

There is fault, but not with the airline.

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Not true. Bars and places that sell and serve liquor are subject to Dram Shop Laws. Google says....

Under Texas’ Dram Shop Laws, establishments may be liable for any damages that result from their serving of alcohol to a patron who is obviously intoxicated. This includes medical bills, lost wages, pain and suffering, loss of consortium or companionship, funeral expenses for wrongful death claims, and more.Jan 23, 2024

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The bar with wings was responsible for over serving him. They share in his drunken antics.


21 posted on 02/12/2024 8:45:16 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Pox
Why not go after night clubs and bars next? Anyone serving alcohol will be vulnerable to this tactic if allowed to succeed.

They have gone after night clubs and bars. For years. If you serve a drunk person, you could be crimiinaly and civily liable.

 

Dram Shop Laws.

22 posted on 02/12/2024 8:48:07 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: princess leah

Not even close to the truth.


23 posted on 02/12/2024 8:48:34 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Carl Vehse

Plenty of time? Like 8 hours?

https://uhs.umich.edu/time-to-sober-up


24 posted on 02/12/2024 8:51:41 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: drwoof
And soon, alcohol will not be served in public. Too risky.

Yep. One person craps their pants and everyone's gotta wear a diaper.

25 posted on 02/12/2024 8:55:57 PM PST by Drew68 (We could've had Ron DeSantis.)
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To: nickcarraway

How is the airline to know what or how much consumed before getting on flight? If do inks in flight were requested and they didn’t serve, they likely would have been seen as wrong too!


26 posted on 02/12/2024 10:35:17 PM PST by b4me
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To: nickcarraway

Not responsible only those around him


27 posted on 02/13/2024 4:35:09 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Dr. Sivana

Sounds like Delta threw a matchstick onto a forest fire; they aren’t liable for anything. The dude was a walking time bomb.


28 posted on 02/13/2024 4:51:47 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: VastRWCon

Clothes, not close.


29 posted on 02/13/2024 4:52:20 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: Responsibility2nd

He was three sheets to the wind when he boarded the plane. And an assh8le to boot.


30 posted on 02/13/2024 4:54:08 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: nickcarraway
I fly quite frequently and I find it hard to believe one can be "overserved" on a plane. Even ordering a second drink will usually get you the side-eye from the stewardess (and perhaps your fellow passenger). I have seen other passengers, not obviously drunk, denied a drink if it was their third or fourth.

Stewardesses appear to be highly trained not to let a passenger get intoxicated on a flight. Which makes sense, because on the rare occasion that happens, there are usually major incidents that make the news.

If this guy was drunk, he either brought his own stash on board or he stopped at the airport bar before getting on or after getting off the plane.

31 posted on 02/13/2024 5:01:01 AM PST by SamAdams76 (6,575,474 Truth | 87,429,044 Twitter)
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To: Responsibility2nd
establishments may be liable for any damages that result from their serving of alcohol to a patron who is obviously intoxicated. No evidence in the article that he was drunk on the plane, certainly none that he was "obviously intoxicated". Unlike most Texas bars, he is not free to leave and start driving. I am doubtful that ANY state's dram laws apply to the airspace. I recalled that when some states were raising the drinking age on the ground, it remained 18 in the air.
32 posted on 02/13/2024 5:26:24 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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To: nickcarraway

Lying sack of shite trying to turn his rage fueled DWI into someone else’s fault. This case sounds like a real stretch.


33 posted on 02/13/2024 5:37:58 AM PST by TalBlack (I We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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To: nickcarraway

Host laws don’t apply to airlines.. ?


34 posted on 02/13/2024 5:44:09 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: SamAdams76

Per the FAA...

The boarding of a passenger who appears to be intoxicated is a violation of Section 121.575 of the Federal Aviation Regulations (FAR)

Wanna bet airlines let them on anyway?


35 posted on 02/13/2024 5:45:48 AM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: nickcarraway

The flight time is 2 hours 30 minutes. Add time to board, taxi, deplane, traverse the terminal to the parking garage/lot, locate car and mow down the wife, that puts it well in excess 3:30.

Two drinks in 3.5+ hours would not put someone over the legal limit. The gentleman would have had to consume 5 drinks (chugging the first 3 just prior to boarding). Those 3 prior drinks still would not be legally drunk in most states, much less aboard an airplane with no established limit.

Many states have aiding and abetting DUI laws. The guilty party there would be the dead wife, which raises a question. Who is the estate?

“with her estate claiming flight attendants overserved her beau.”

How did the estate observe this piece of evidence? Can the estate be cross examined regarding this observation?

Is her hubby in the slammer and unable to benefit from his crime, so some slimy jailhouse lawyer came up with this plan and enlisted an outside slimy lawyer to participate?

What happens if the serving flight attendant was gay, black, trans, or some other mitigating factor?

The society has lost all grasp of personal responsibility. These are the death throes.

EC


36 posted on 02/13/2024 8:12:14 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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To: yldstrk

If he was then under Texas law, it was illegal to serve him even more alcohol. I suppose most states also have similar type laws.


37 posted on 02/13/2024 8:18:14 AM PST by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Well maybe so, but serving two more drinks didn’t make him drunk, he was already snockered.


38 posted on 02/13/2024 8:30:27 AM PST by yldstrk
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