CHP: Driver in deadly crash off Interstate 8 facing murder charge - 10News.com KGTV ABC10 San Diego

My prayers go out to the family of the two victims, it is so horrible that reports of DUI's, it's even worse when it becomes common to see a DUI in the news that takes a innocent victims life. In today's news there are two reports of DUI that caused death.

I honestly don't know that society can do to prevent people from driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs, states continue to raise the punishments for drinking and driving to the point that when you cause the death of someone you are now faced with murder charges, yet people still take the risk and drink and drive. I guarantee you that the two drivers in the two stories today did not get up this morning and plan the murders of the taxi driver in the first story and the two 20 year olds in this story, yet the did decide to drink or do drugs and get behind the wheel of their weapon even though in the back of their mind they knew the risks involved yet shrugged it off and told themselves it won't happen to me, but it did and it does, yet people continue to do it and that is why they are charged with murder or in the case of the wrong way driver in the first story she will be. It is a shame that alcohol has such a grip on this society that good people who normally give great contributions to this world end up at the end of the day with murder charges, and the only way that this country will be able to cut down the DUI rate would be to outlaw alcohol but that would not be fair to those adults who do drink responsibly.

Yet we know outlawing alcohol would not stop everyone anyways just look back at the prohibition days of the United States, people still had access to alcohol the only difference it was in the black market just like drugs are today, then you wouldn't have just drug cartels, you would have alcohol cartels as well, killing each other over distribution.

Sorry I rambled on, just this is a very emotional subject to me, and it's frustrating that it seems there is nothing we can do to stop innocent people from dieing in alcohol related crashes.  







CHP: Driver in deadly crash off Interstate 8 facing murder charge - 10News.com KGTV ABC10 San Diego