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Originally Posted by Dion
Disagree strongly. The fines and punishment we have now aren't near enough of a deterent. I'm willing to bet if a persons license is taken away for life you'd have people thinking long and hard before they get behind the wheel drunk.
As for auctioning off the vehicle, it makes perfect sense to me. Think of the court costs and police man hours involved in processing a DUI. Then there's the family i noted who could have used some of that money to pay for the funeral costs of thier daughter killed by a drunk driver.
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The current fines/punishment are not enough. The drunk driver who hit me was immediately arrested at the scene. It was his 9th arrest, he had only been out of jail for less than 60 days serving time for his last DUI conviction. His license was suspended but he didn't care, he put his truck in his girlfriends name to get it registered and drove drunk without a license. On that day he hit three cars and three high school students crossing the street walking home from school. In all he sent seven of us to the hospital. Even after all that the maximum sentence he could receive is four years because he didn't kill anyone. Give him time, he will. He only served 18 months of his 4 year sentence. I'm sure he's still out there drunk driving unless his 10th arrest interupts his life again.