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Originally Posted by Northendzone
while i do not have any stats, other than my onw observations - but it sure seems like more often than not the drunk drivers walk away from these crashes and leave a wake of destruction behind them and change lives forever and all they ahve to do is give up two years of their lives to repay their debt
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That's usually not true at all. There's the odd story here and there of some raging alcoholic that kills someone then serves time and gets out and gets busted again for drinking and driving.
But for the most part people are messed up once something like that happens. It's a very "I just read the stories" observation, imo, when people assume that the "punishment" in drunk driving deaths is a simple "Oh he just serves his two years and then he's back out there free to live a normal life".
My buddy killed his passenger in a drunk driving accident years ago. He served four years and said the prison time didn't even register with him and didn't mean anything, all he thought about was what he did.
Unfortunately, last year after years of living with what he did and waking up screaming every night from the event, he committed suicide.
You can say the sentencing is too light, and I would agree but you can't tell me people go on with their lives after their sentence while the family of the victim suffers. Everyone suffers and lives with the consequences of these terrible decisions.
I'd be extremely surprised if this 20 year old guy serves his time and goes "Welp, time served, back to my normal life".