RIP my Stinger

[DoctorStiches]

Life lesson come but once in a while.
Learn from it
Im sad for the stinger and its another crash for the community
BUT
Im also glad your ok

 

[DoctorStiches]

It's lucky the OP doesn't live in Australia. My understanding is that the legal alcohol limit in the USA is 0.08 (which the OP must have exceeded). In Australia the legal limit is 0.05 and anything above 0.08 is considered a higher category of drunk driving and subject to even higher penalties. In Australia insurance won't cover you if you're drunk - I'm not sure about the USA.

Our legal limit is .08 and anything over is big fines

 

[Floridaman]

If I read this right, the OP had two beers between 10pm and 11pm and five and a half hours later (4:30am) got into an accident. There should be no problem fighting that. And if that is in fact the case then some of these responses are strange.

 

[95oRANGEcRUSH]

This is a recommendation. In the future if you find yourself in yet another unlucky legal predicament avoid going to a public forum and posting the explicit details.

It would not be hard to find the police report for this thereby finding your name and whatever additional personal information. Anybody could then send a link to this thread with screenshots to the local prosecutor’s office covering that jurisdiction. Your fight in court would be short lived. Just food for thought.

 

[SIMONGUEY]

I'm not 100% sure what my blood and alcohol levels were at that moment it wasn't told to me. going to figure out how to get a report later today!.

I definitely learned from this. thing could have been so much worse honestly. i was thinking about this in jail since it can get pretty boring in there. i have been thinking about all the possible out comes that could have happened. if my friend has made it to the airport with my cousin. how this is going to affect me with school since I was planning on starting end of august or start of September.

so far my plan is to postpone school for a little bit and hope the company i work for don't change their minds on paying for engineering classes for me. but get a second job and i should be able to have more cash in my account for how much a dui tends to cost. around 10K is what I'm being told but i def want to get more without having to sell my stock.

my thoughts about the whole situation is that it sucks fs. what happened happened and I'm just glad no one got seriously injured because of me. definitely learned to just pull over and take a nap if needed. I wouldn't consider myself a heavy drinker since i do it on occasion but i can definitely tell when I've had enough or how to control how much I have had. I was personally surprised that I didn't pass the blood alcohol test since i only had a little to drink and a big gap between the drink and the crash. i should have listened to my body at that moment and just pull over to sleep more then anything. definitely wont be driving if I've had anything to drink that day. most likely wont be drinking for a real long time but all I can really do now is accept the consequences. understand what i did and what could have happened. and get an attorney and try helping myself as best as possible in court.

 

[SIMONGUEY]

This is a recommendation. In the future if you find yourself in yet another unlucky legal predicament avoid going to a public forum and posting the explicit details.

It would not be hard to find the police report for this thereby finding your name and whatever additional personal information. Anybody could then send a link to this thread with screenshots to the local prosecutor’s office covering that jurisdiction. Your fight in court would be short lived. Just food for thought.

big facts lol. im trying to figure it out to see what my blood/ alcohol percentage was at the time

Life lesson come but once in a while.
Learn from it
Im sad for the stinger and its another crash for the community
BUT
Im also glad your ok

life lesson is freshly glued into my mind that anything could happen in the blink of an eye. the least expected should be the most expected. as for the car same!! i feel bad for the car honestly it has always done me good. insurance is picking up the car today. they're going to mark it as totaled. i got to inspect the car so i know its 100% fixable. my parents want to help and pay off the car since i still owe 15k on the car to then get my money and have the car fixed and not just pulled for parts. with this the car can be fixed and bought back but i don't feel comfortable with my parents using up all that money on a mistake i made so i need to talk to them later and let them know that the car is a loss. i can rebuild later in life but now with everyone ok i want to focus on the dui and also what will happen with me and schooling. nothing much i can do at this point besides tell me friend how guilty i feel for having her go thru a crash out the blue like that.

 

[87and66]

If even 1 person on this forum reads this and it prevents them from drinking and driving (even if they think they're ok to drive), then it was worth posting, and something good came of the situation. People lose their loved ones because of this stuff every day. Their entire world gets shattered because of the choices of another person. Be thankful (as you seem to be) than no one was hurt. Learn from your mistakes. And don't repeat them.

As for the car, that's probably about $12,000-15,000 in damage. I hit a deer in 2019 and it did pretty similar damage minus the airbags, wheel, and suspension and it was $8,000. Probably not totaled, but you'll be waiting quite a while for it to be fixed if it isn't, given the shortage on everything known to man.

 

[Devin]

I'm glad you are okay, as well as your passenger. As far as the legal limit thing goes, I believe that only applies in cases where there is no incident, such as being pulled over for speeding, malfunctioning tail-light, etc. If you are in an accident, anything can be a contributing factor: one drink five hours ago, NyQuil, adjusting the radio or just driving tired.

I think that driving under the influence and distracted driving in general are not treated seriously enough by the courts and folks that don't learn their lesson and repeat making bad decisions need to have much more serious consequences to keep them from killing innocent people.

@SIMONGUEY this is probably the best outcome you could've had that involved an accident and the fact that you are owning it in public is outstanding. Hopefully your story will make an impact on another driver before they get into a similar situation.

 

[87and66]

I think that driving under the influence and distracted driving in general are not treated seriously enough by the courts and folks that don't learn their lesson and repeat making bad decisions need to have much more serious consequences to keep them from killing innocent people.

Agreed. I hear way too many stories of people who have 3 or 4+ DUIs and they're still doing it. If they've been caught that many times, they've probably done it dozens of times. Complete disregard for human life

 

[MerlintheMad]

Our legal limit is .08 and anything over is big fines

In Utah, the legal limit was not long ago changed to 0.05.

 

[Kamauxx]

Plot twist: your friend roofied you.

 

[rpoffen]

Sorry to hear this. Glad no serious injuries.
One thing to keep in mind in California, because they don't always tell you, you need to file with the DMV and request a hearing in a short period of time, or they WILL suspend your license.

 

[ScottM]

If I read this right, the OP had two beers between 10pm and 11pm and five and a half hours later (4:30am) got into an accident. There should be no problem fighting that. And if that is in fact the case then some of these responses are strange.

Spot on! If the facts are indeed the facts, then it's not a provable DUI. I can see "tired driving" or something of that nature...but not DUI. Actually "tired driving" is way more of a problem than drunk driving...and unfortunately way more acceptable to people. I live in Vegas, 24hr town... lots of drunks and sleepers on the road. In any event, we'll see what happens before I make my "judgement" on the "crime".

 

[SIMONGUEY]

I'm glad you are okay, as well as your passenger. As far as the legal limit thing goes, I believe that only applies in cases where there is no incident, such as being pulled over for speeding, malfunctioning tail-light, etc. If you are in an accident, anything can be a contributing factor: one drink five hours ago, NyQuil, adjusting the radio or just driving tired.

I think that driving under the influence and distracted driving in general are not treated seriously enough by the courts and folks that don't learn their lesson and repeat making bad decisions need to have much more serious consequences to keep them from killing innocent people.

@SIMONGUEY this is probably the best outcome you could've had that involved an accident and the fact that you are owning it in public is outstanding. Hopefully your story will make an impact on another driver before they get into a similar situation.

It definitely is the best out come. i f&*%ed up. i didn't think about it the way i should of now im paying the price. im just happy no one got hurt honestly. got my ass handed to me by my family about what could of happened. tough love for sure but definitely want me to try fighting the case since i didn't drink much and it was separated by a couple hours. i should of pulled over to sleep 100%.

Plot twist: your friend roofied you.

imagine lol.

Sorry to hear this. Glad no serious injuries.
One thing to keep in mind in California, because they don't always tell you, you need to file with the DMV and request a hearing in a short period of time, or they WILL suspend your license.

i will look into this!! at the moment im trying to get the police record for my blood and alcohol levels. they never gave them to me or explain i was getting a dui till they let me go.

 

[SIMONGUEY]

called to figure out my blood and alcohol test results and have been told they they wont know the result for another week or two. i will now be trying to get the crash report.

 

[AusStinger]

Glad everyone's OK.

I'd say you just learned a valuable life lesson, and you're lucky to be "learning" it.

I for one am not going to lecture you ( since I've "learned" from MY "mistakes" ) but fatigue while driving is so incredibly dangerous ( I know ).

As for your Stinger..... I'll be surprised if it survives. With cars that have been in a decent accident, it's almost always worse than it looks.

Did you have a dash cam ?

 

[SIMONGUEY]

Glad everyone's OK.

I'd say you just learned a valuable life lesson, and you're lucky to be "learning" it.

I for one am not going to lecture you ( since I've "learned" from MY "mistakes" ) but fatigue while driving is so incredibly dangerous ( I know ).

As for your Stinger..... I'll be surprised if it survives. With cars that have been in a decent accident, it's almost always worse than it looks.

Did you have a dash cam ?

Yeah I definitely learned mine! I’ve always been the one to toughen out a drive. Dumb way of thinking that isn’t going to get me anywhere besides into problems. You hear about things like this but never imagine they would really happen to you. Definitely changed my mentality and perspective on alotnof things not just driving now.

I wish I had a dash honestly. I’m still a little confused as to how exactly my car hit the wall. More of a guess at the moment. Yeah car looks fixable from what is currently broken but most likely worse then how it appears

 

[Maljey]

The car is definitely totaled. Frankly I wouldn't even want it repaired.

If you do get another Stinger, make sure it's a 2022+ model with all the safety features. They can be overbearing but probably would have saved you from this accident.

 

[ShaPoopieZ]

If you were not able to take Field sobriety tests and the blood test was administered hours later they have NO proof of any kind of intoxication of any kind at the time of when the accident happens.
FST is how they prove intoxication it doesnt matter what your BAC is . .OOO and Failing FST will get you a DUI thay you have to fight to get out of.
Get a Lawyer and stop talking about details on this public forum.
This is all admissible in court.

Make better decisions before and while you drive. The biggest lesson you can learn from this is the the first rule of fight club.


Dont Talk about fight club.

Dont drive under any type of infuence , dont talk to the police about what happened ,rufuse FST and Breath test, dont talk to your friends about what happened .

You will incriminate yourself every time.

 

[AusStinger]

On another note, now I see how the air bag comes out of the steering wheel and what the inside of the headlight looks like...

Also, maybe you passed out from all those air fresheners hanging from your mirror