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Connecticut Family Reaches $2.3M Settlement in Drunken Driving Case
East News • December 4, 2008
The estate of a Greenwich, Connecticut teenager killed in a drunken driving accident in 2005 has been awarded $2.3 million in a settlement reached in Superior Court in Bridgeport.
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| Subject | Posted By | Posted On |
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| RE: Passenger Was | nobody important | Dec 10, 2008, 8:16 am |
| Passenger Was | Not An Innocent Victim | Dec 6, 2008, 6:00 pm |
| RE: RE: personal responsibility | Compman | Dec 5, 2008, 6:57 pm |
| RE: personal responsibility | lastbat | Dec 5, 2008, 6:54 pm |
| personal responsibility | Compman | Dec 5, 2008, 6:01 pm |
| RE: RE: What Drunk Driver Problem? | Mary B. | Dec 5, 2008, 5:23 pm |
| RE: RE: What Drunk Driver Problem? | Compman | Dec 5, 2008, 12:13 pm |
| RE: What Drunk Driver Problem? | lastbat | Dec 5, 2008, 10:12 am |
| What Drunk Driver Problem? | nobody important | Dec 4, 2008, 3:41 pm |
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Subject: Passenger Was
So we have the neo-prohibitionist MADD organization claiming there were 13k innocent victims of drunk drivers in 2007.
Out of the 13k deaths, over 10,200 of those accident were SINGLE VEHICLE ACCIDENTS where the drinking driver or passenger riding with the drinking driver were killed.
THESE ARE NOT INNOCENT VICTIMS OF DRUNK DRIVERS.
So we have only 17% (2,800) purported INNOCENT VICTIMS OF DDs in multi vehicle accidents. That according to MADD
But 17% is inflated since we can not automatically assign fault to the driver with a substance in their blood.
But all the pro-MADD folks out there say we need tougher laws to save all the INNOCENT VICTIMS, when in fact there are likely less than 1,300 annually.
Yesterday was the anniversary of the end of prohibition. Maybe as a society, we can make Dec 5, 2009 the end of the un-American neo-prohibitionist MADD organization.
But there are always those that will gladly give up their freedoms for a special interest group that is lobbying and legislating their profit under the guise of safety.
Not me.