[Merged] N/S- Henry Ruggs car accident in Vegas (update from old thread)

Semper said

This happens far too much.

Each day about 28 people in America die in drunk-driving car crashes, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

I don't know the answer but I believe part of it is less fines and more penalty.

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BAC limits are too high in the US too, in my opinion. 0.08 is buzzed. If you lower that to 0.05 or thereabouts you're pretty much confined to one drink per hour. It takes some of the guesswork / risk flirtation out of it. That, combined with harsher penalties (e.g automatic loss of licence when you exceed the legal limit; Interlock devices etc. when you eventually get your licence back).

I don't know how it is handled in the US by the courts but this should really be dealt with as an involuntary manslaughter type case. That is, he didn't intend to kill anybody but that his conduct rose to the level of criminal negligence. In which case he should be looking at 15 years imprisonment. I am sure it won't get to that though.