WELL DON`T DO IT! this link is a most powerful and graphic reason why not, Before using it (you will have to Ctrl+C then Ctrl+v it into your browser) please be aware it is not for the faint hearted and some may find it quite distressing. However I hought the more people who see it the better and it might make our roads that lttle bit safer.
http://www.expressen.nu/html/bildarkiv/Saburido.htm

[This message was edited by redder on 02-05-03 at 09:04 AM.]

Thank you, redder, for your post. These images are certainly hard to look at, but they do bring home the terrible fact that driving under the influence carries with it the possibility of such consequences.

This beautiful young girl and her family have had their lives destroyed by the careless act of another. And the drinking driver's own life has been forever changed as well.

Dwight

Thats the last time I follow one of yopur links while eating lunch!
Just terrible.

As horrific as that is, the only person who will never drink and drive again for certain is the boy who drove that car. Unfortunately, most of us only learn from our past mistakes, not our possible future mistakes. We think that it only happens to 'the other guy', never us.

You know what is the worst thing?

He probably didn't have insurance. If he did it probably won't cover the cost of the recovery. And she will NEVER regain what she lost.

While he may go on to be a lawyer or architect or some other successful life work.

Before my accident i used to drink and drive all the time. Then one night i had about 14 beers and crashed into a telephone pole at 45 mph head on. If it wasn't for the airbag i'd probably not be here talking to you folks today.
After I got arrested I didn't care that I was going to jail or in really big trouble, all I could think about in that cop car was the fact I could have killed innocent people.
Then 5 months later I lost 3 friends that same way, 2 died and the 3rd is doing time for killing his friends, charged with vehicular manslaughter.
If you have to drink please walk, have a designated driver, and I know you guys ain't that cheap whats a Taxi split between friends if it gets you home in one piece.

I did not look at the picture but uh..I have a pretty good idea how nasty it is.


I personally believe that anyone who drinks and drives is a moron. You need to think these things through BEFORE you drink, period.

I don't drink much but when I do and I am going somewhere with my friends, we ALWAYS take a cab there and back. Drinking is not worth your life and especially anyone elses!!

I had a friend who was killed by a drunk driver March of 1997. But the driver tried to say it was my friends fault because he was jay walking. Yes, my friend might have been jaywalking, but that in no way excuses they drivers stupidity of drinking and driving.

There was a time back when I was young and stupid, I did. But I was lucky and nothing bad ever happened. Now I am older and hopefully a little bit wiser, I don't drink at all any more.

I guess I took a liking to waking up in the mornings without a hangover.

I did look at the picture and immediately recognized this as a beautiful young lady who was traumatically disfigured by being burned in a car hit by a drunk driver. It is very graphic, but remember, if it hurts you to see the way she looks today, just imagine that as your own face to see each morning in the mirror. I do need to research the legality of it appearing here, but if it is okay, it will stay on the site.

I will never drink and drive because I don't drink. I've tried to talk to other people that drink and drive, but it's hard to talk to a drunk person. I feel so sorry for that poor girl.

Thank you for posting those very powerful pictures as a reminder to us all, redder.

Sadly, the poor girl in those pictures isn't unusual. Needless tragedies like hers are happening every day. The law isn't harsh enough on drunk drivers, and is no deterrent.

Well I'll tell you this much, I aint gonna drink and drive You have seriously changed my mind redder, I always thought I might. I mean I wasn't going to or anything but there could have been a possibility.No I can tell you for sure that there isn't.

I saw this last week. I passed it along to my kids and asked them to pass it along to friends. It is really hard to look at, but hopefully someone will remember her before they drink and drive.

I feel so sorry for the girl on there. I guess one innocent night of fun and not thinking had some terrible tragic loss. I think over the years alot of people have actually had soem drinks and drove but, your right Redder this really makes you think.

I don't drink but I have friends who do. Everyone knows that if they call me after drinking, I will pick them up or find someone who will.

I lost two good friends in drinking and driving accidents.
The first one happened after two friends left a party and smashed into a tree. The driver lived the passenger did not. Both were drinking.

The second friend was killed after leaving a party. She had called up her older brother to pick her up because the girl she came with was drinking. Unfortunatly, on the way home, they were in an accident involving another drunk driver. The brother lived, the sister did not.

I am a moderate drinker and I always stop drinking and switch to coffee at midnight, then stay until 2am closing. No exceptions.

I believe that 3 drinks in 3 hours and then 2 hours to sober up are quite sufficient to have a good time and still maintain some sensibility.

Nothing wrong with alcohol or boozing it up. Just make sure YOU are the only one who suffers from your stupidity the next morning.
Besides, Killing, maiming or disfiguring another human being... it really ruins a good buzz.

Mr(just another tequila's un-wise)Sensitive

The post is pretty grapic and tells it like it is. The average sober person will look at it and say "how can anyone drink and drive after seeing something like that?"

Unfortunately, some people will never “get it”. I work in insurance claims and there are many people involved in DWI’s that have had more than one accident.A young man killed a women and got another dwi while he was awaiting trail. It’s amazing how they can justify it. Often some of these characters on driving on suspended license’s due to a previous DWI.

Occasionally, a person that does not have a problem will have an accident after having a few drinks, but most are problem drinkers. They really don’t understand the consequences of their actions and once they take that first drink, they lose all logical thinking. If any of them saw a picture like the one in that post, they would use it as an excuse to get drunk.