The errant vehicle demolished a bus shelter and killed a man waiting there Sunday night
Bus Stop late this afternoon
Bus Stop late this afternoon
So I often get criticized on Twitter for using thumbnails from Google images of drunk driving fatal crashes to illustrate a drunk driving post because it does not reflect the actual incidents I cover with my routine "DUI Dishonor Roll" series shedding light on weekend arrests for drunk driving.
But every now and then, sadly, a local incident occurs that drives home my point: Drunk drivers kill! Last year over 10,000 innocent people.
Last weekend, in addition to the three drunk drivers APD took off the road, one still at large drunk driver screamed through town center on a beautiful Sunday night and directly trampled a 55-year-man sitting on a bench waiting for a PVTA bus.
Since the perp was piloting a commercial style heavy-duty truck and the victim was sitting, he stood no chance whatsoever of surviving.
The Death Machine
Police have impounded the vehicle, but since it was reported stolen early the next morning, it is exceedingly hard to prove who was driving it.
About to graduate UMass student Danny Haley, age 24, was slaughtered by a wrong way drunk driver on Rt 116 in Hadley in 2012. To this day his family keeps up a memorial
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In Eastern Hampshire District Court on Monday all three APD weekend arrests had their cases continued until next month.
Matthew Vasquez, age 27
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Kyle Kitlinski, age 21
Luis Gonzales, age 21