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Originally Posted by bluejays
In no way I’m defending the guy by saying this, but I don’t think there was intent to mow down the Gaudreau’s. It sounds like a case of raging and following the car ahead too closely to get them to speed up. Only problem was he didn’t see the Gaureau’s up ahead and when the car in front inevitably moved to the left he crazily wanted to pass on the right, hitting them. It’s crazy road rage that he’d want to pass on the right but I think most of us even if sober could not react in time. Regardless it’s a sad situation and a lot of whatifs in the coming years.
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He may not have had a high enough blood alcohol level to drastically impair his reflexes, but it could have been high enough to impair his judgement and make him more prone to risky decision making. He may not have been at the sloppy drunk stage, but still at the liquid courage stage of his drinking.
He even admitted to the police that he thought the effects of alcohol made him less patient.