Comment · Sun, September 2, 2012
Per request, I am a person who accidentally killed someone. AMA.
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i_killed_my_friend · 1563 points
I was a best man in a wedding in my hometown. I had to travel back to the state to visit my old friends and to partake in the wedding. On the first night there the other groomsmen and bridesmaids took me out on the town to welcome me back. After the bars closed I got onto a motorcycle with a good friend on the back, there was one helmet and she was wearing it. She was very drunk and not experienced in riding on the back of motorcycles. While making a left turn she jerked to the right, I can only assume she got scared from leaning into the turn, we made a quick jump to the right, hit a curb and it threw me off of the bike. I landed 15 feet from the contact point and she fell straight backwards. I ran back to her and she was unconscious but mostly unscathed. I called 911 just as my other friends pulled up behind me and tried to help us get out of there. I feared the worse and told them to leave knowing the police and ambulances were coming. The ambulances came and took us away in separate vehicles. She had complications (I have never been told what complications) and was induced into a coma. I was released with a stable fracture in my neck and taken to jail in my scrubs and neck bra…
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Ayalala · 2 points
Rules over here are absolute 0 for any drivers < 20 (or on their provisionals after 20.) Full licenses can have a little bit, but not much. It's just to cater for a friendly, single drink in a night.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
There are usually multiple statues they can cite you for. Here in Arizona, a DUI is .08 or higher. However, if the officer feels your driving is impaired in any way, he can cite you for being impaired by a substance in any amount.
Here is the wording of the law here
" It is unlawful for a person to drive or be in actual physical control of a vehicle in this state under any of the following circumstances:
While under the influence of intoxicating liquor, any drug, a vapor releasing substance containing a toxic substance or any combination of liquor, drugs or vapor releasing substances if the person is impaired to the slightest degree.
While there is any drug defined in section 13-3401 or its metabolite in the person's body."
So they can cite you if they do a blood test and find even a metabolite of a drug in your system! I am not sure it happens very often though.