Posted on 12/21/2010 11:59:10 PM PST by ruination
SANTA ANA – A teenager was charged Tuesday with two felony counts of vehicular manslaughter in connection with a high-speed car crash early Saturday that claimed the lives of a popular Oxford Academy senior and his father.
Rafael Lopez, 18, of Anaheim, is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon at Men's Central Jail in Santa Ana on charges that could send him to state prison for up to 13 years if he is convicted, according to the Orange County District Attorney's office.
Lopez is charged with having a .13 blood alcohol level – the legal limit for someone his age is .01 – when he allegedly caused the deaths of Douglas Uselton, 17, and Steven Uselton, 44, who died in the 5:30 a.m. crash in Buena Park while on their way to a debate tournament at the high school in Cypress.
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This is another of those very sad stories we keep hearing about drunks and the demographic of the Perp.
I had no idea that the legal limit for blood alcohol level went by a persons age.
Ten bucks says he’s here illegally.
That is probably the lowest level that can be measured. When a driver is below the drinking age, any alcohol in the blood is above the legal limit. His BAC of .13 is about 50% higher than the legal limit of .08 in many states, and definitely above the .10 which defines what is about the highest legal limit in any state. The kid was drunk.
Demographics are really kind of irrelevant in this story, I think. What's key is that it caught up with him and he's destroyed more lives than just the two he ended.
TWO good people gone.
ONE scumball still around.
TWO good people gone.
ONE scumball still around.
Take this maggot out on the street, push him down on the ground and execute him. On TV!
May be a California "thing", it's .08 here in Illinois and as far as I know that's for everyone here. I also thought 21 is the legal drinking age.
I see people in their 30s being carded for cigarettes here.
In the sf bay area, the racial tribalists claim sobriety checkpoints unfairly target hispanics. Maybe its part of their plan to 'take back' the southwest.
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