A 66-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene, police said.
Two children are dead and 15 people were injured after a woman drove her car into a child’s birthday party, Sheriff Troy Goodnough said in a press conference Saturday evening.
The two children who were pronounced dead at the scene were siblings, an 8-year-old girl and a 5-year-old boy, according to police.
Doesn’t seem like an appropriate sentiment here. The woman was drunk. And I’ve been to Monroe Michigan, you’re not going to get around using public transit.
The sentiment isn’t against her car use specifically, but more the infrastructure that makes one completely reliant on a car, and doesn’t give you the option to get the bus home after you’ve had a few drinks.
Uber exists.
Lack of public transportation options are not a viable excuse for driving a vehicle drunk.
If you choose to put alcohol into your body without an “exit plan” then at no point does any other entity own that choice and the consequences of that choice.s
Yes, fuck cars, fuck the lack of public transportation and all of that.
Your point has no reason being here though.
You’re right, it would be great to expand public transit so that people always have a reliable option besides a personal car. I just don’t think a comment that consists entirely of “fuck cars” is fitting regarding this particular incident.
In response to the two (and counting) Uber bros here: Uber isn’t always available, especially in rural communities. Uber drivers don’t always want to deal with drunks, and frankly, shit’s expensive, which, like it or not, is going to keep some people from using it. The US has a really common anti-pattern of exporting systemic failures as person responsibility failings, but I’m telling you that there’s a reason why our drunk driving rates are consistently and significantly higher than what you see in West Europe/Japan/etc. despite the fact that we’ve spent untold amount of money on enforcement and public health campaigns. It’s not because Americans are uniquely irresponsible; it’s because of low urban densities and car dependency. If you don’t need a car to get home, then your drunk ass will just take the bus or walk. This is 100% an infrastructure problem that we’ve tried to solve with finger wagging, enshittified taxis, and cops, and to nobody’s surprise but ours, we continue to have shit metrics on this.
Build infrastructure that doesn’t prioritise the car (and is consequently safer, even for drunks) and these events will happen a lot less often. Traffic calming, massively lower speed limits, banning absurdly large SUVs, and providing viable (and safe) alternatives to driving will make everyone much safer.
I don’t think she woul’ve killed a lot of people while being drunk on a bicycle
Oh fuck.
Around 3 p.m., a woman drove a vehicle through a wall of the Swan Boat Club in Monroe County, Michigan, coming to a stop 25 feet inside, authorities said.
The 66-year-old suspect was arrested at the scene for suspicion of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, causing death and is currently being held at Monroe County Jail, according to Goodnough.
I smell chardonnay.
This is sociopathic, probably anger-fueled thinking. You don’t spend enough time around people, you don’t realize how imperfect and different literally everyone is, and you don’t really know what their problems are; so you tend to dehumanize people who make mistakes. What happened was horrible, some people may never forgive them, but they are still humans. Not to mention that you can’t trust humans in the first place to even pick the right people to punish, let alone to punish humanely. Not that punishment was ever a good response.
Or maybe you do realize these things and you’ll come to your senses later.
Not excusing drunk driving, but based on the shape of the road I see how this happened. From Google maps, if the driver was coming from blanchett street there is a bend in the road right in front of the building. Here is what it looks like from street view. The driver was probably drunk and/or lost control of the vehicle and went speeding forward into the side of the building.
This is heartbreaking. A child’s birthday party.
