Media in the Southeast (see here and here, for instance),
reported on the arrest of a prominent Alabama attorney on DUI charges. The attorney was arrested after he allegedly
drove his Lamborghini 20 mile per hour faster than the posted speed limit at
around 3:30 in the morning. The media
reports that the attorney refused a sobriety test.
We don’t pass judgement on the attorney, and note that being
arrested is not the same thing as being found guilty. Who knows if the attorney had been drinking
or was intoxicated. Those are facts yet
to be proven. We just post this as a
reminder that drinking and driving don’t mix.
Heavy drinking increases the chances of injury or
death. As we have written, alcohol use
is a contributing factor in about forty percent of fatal motor vehicle crashes,
suicides, and falls; sixty percent of fatal burn injuries, drownings, and
homicides; and fifty percent of severe trauma injuries and sexual assaults.
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