[Merged] N/S- Henry Ruggs car accident in Vegas (update from old thread) (1 Viewer)

[Poison]

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.

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.

 

[zatsnzapps]

Released by the Raiders.

The Las Vegas Raiders announced Tuesday they have released wide receiver Henry Ruggs III after he was involved in a car accident in the early morning hours that resulted in a fatality in Las Vegas.

Raiders release Henry Ruggs III after fatal accident in Las Vegas

The Las Vegas Raiders announced Tuesday they have released wide receiver Henry Ruggs III after he was involved in a car accident in the early morning hours that resulted in a fatality in Las Vegas.

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com

 

[DaveXA]

Released by the Raiders.

Raiders release Henry Ruggs III after fatal accident in Las Vegas

The Las Vegas Raiders announced Tuesday they have released wide receiver Henry Ruggs III after he was involved in a car accident in the early morning hours that resulted in a fatality in Las Vegas.

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com

Yeah, that was inevitable. He's not going to be back on the field anytime soon.

 

[El Caliente]

He is about to sign with Cheesburger Eddy, Big Tony, and Paul Crewe on the Mean Machine.

 

[nolaspe]

One of my friends lost his 9 yr old daughter a week and a half ago after the minivan she was riding in with her mother/his wife was plowed into by a drunk driver at 60-75 mph on the Westbank 2 Fridays ago.

She arrived to UMC that Friday night w/o any brain activity (along w/ her other injuries) and was kept alive by mechanical ventilation until Monday so that all of her organs that could be donated were procured for recipients.

My friend and his family are beyond devastated and full of fury and sadness.

The man who killed her also would have been able to afford a lift home, he was in a high-end Infiniti.

I don't have any sympathy for Ruggs...

Bond for man accused of car crash that killed 9-year-old has bond set at $1 million

Documents claim Lachney was driving between 60 & 75 mph in a 45 mph zone, and he admitted to authorities that he had been drinking whiskey and smoking marijuana

www.wwltv.com

 

[LuvNOLA]

The NFL has improved TREMENDOUSLY on this tragic behavior.

When Leonard Little played for the Rams in St Lou, he was drunk driving & he killed a young mom. Little continued to play for the Rams. No jail time.

THEN, not to long after, continued to drive drunk in his Bentley or Benz and got stopped AGAIN for a DUI.

Some folks just don’t get it.

 

[NewOrleansBoy]

Hopefully he doesn’t somehow make his way to KC.

Which probably won’t happen considering they released Hunt at a time where that dude was Kamara’s rival

 

[kennystillsfan]

When will people learn ?! This goes beyond being young and dumb. Just reckless and ignorance.

 

[Snakehead]

Can we update the subject on this thread? It's far beyond just and accident.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

Sorry im late to this thread.. I’ll echo what i said on another thread that’s on the EE board right now in re to drunk driving, which is that it’s an epidemic in this country that needs WAY, way harsher penalties.. it’s just laughed off and brushed aside, until it affects you or someone you know… What’s also crazy is that i can 100% imagine somehting like this exact scenario that happened with Henry Ruggs, happening to me when i was his age, 22 years old.. i cant even count the number of times i drove when I shouldn’t have from the ages of about 18 through my 20s.. it wasnt until i was in my early 30s that i started to see the handwriting on the wall, and realized that there’s no excuse to ever drive drunk, or even buzzed.. it’s pure luck that i (and most of my friends) never got a DUI, or never killed anyone.. but as unfortunate as it would have been, i will say that i would have deserved everything i had coming to me in terms of jail time or whatever, if i had done something like Ruggs did- just like he deserves whatever he gets now.

 

[Semper]

Was watching a special last night on the news in Wisconsin. First time you're pulled over in Wisconsin for OWI it's only a ticket. Not until your 6th OWI before you get jail time...

 

[saintmdterps]

Drunk at 340am in the middle of the week during the season and the Raiders have a game this weekend. Driving at a high rate of speed and kills someone. There is nothing good to take from this except a lesson for others.

 

[bigdaddysaints]

The only time i can think of that i drove while drunk was years ago, and i had drank a large daiquiri and drove home. I was so paranoid on that 20 minute drive that i stoped at 2 gas stations on the way and drank large cokes each time, once because police officer got behind me for a couple miles and i was freaking out.
There have been times were i have drank a few beers (few meaning 3) over a couple hours span while at like Hooters eating wings and drove home. I am not a big drinker and never drink more than a couple at function. If i plan on really drinking i do make sure i am not driving or i am staying over night. I do get it, but there is a difference in having a couple beers and driving and drinking a six pack or more then jumping behind the wheel. I know some who will make comments like, I'm a big drinker, so i can drink 6 or 8 beers and not even be buzzed so its not like i'm really drunk.
My daughters goo friend is a BR police officer and she went with her and her parents to Orange Beach (AL) and she told me the mom had to physically take the keys away from the dad because he was drunk as was gonna drive back to the hotel from the resturant, and of all people, he should know better.. But its defenitly a problem in this country and people do brush it off as "pussification" if you need a DD or Uber if you are only "slightly" drunk...

 

[sammymvpknight]

Hopefully they do an autopsy. They can determine if he was alive at the time of the fire. It may be important in the case against Ruggs in determining if there should be leniency. If there is smoke in her the victims lungs…she was alive during the fire.

 

[DaveXA]

Drunk at 340am in the middle of the week during the season and the Raiders have a game this weekend. Driving at a high rate of speed and kills someone. There is nothing good to take from this except a lesson for others.

Not that I'm excusing him, but it was on an early Monday morning, the day after a bye and weren't due back for their next practice until Tuesday.