SXSW: 2 dead, 23 injured.
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SXSW: 2 dead, 23 injured.
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#2Terrible. I hope this wasn't exarcerbated by a high-speed pursuit.
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#3Terrible. I hope this wasn't exarcerbated by a high-speed pursuit.
Nope. From another article:
"The suspect was asked to pull over at a sobriety check point and instead sped away from a police car. He smashed through a police barricade and then plowed down people, some of them lined up outside a nightclub, over a span of two blocks."
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#4My wife was at the Mohawk, an hour and a half before this happened. :( Pretty scary.
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#5So sad :(
These incidences always force me to think something is wrong -- seriously wrong -- with this world. But keeping the faith.
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#6Terrible. I hope this wasn't exarcerbated by a high-speed pursuit.
Nope. From another article: "The suspect was asked to pull over at a sobriety check point and instead sped away from a police car. He smashed through a police barricade and then plowed down people, some of them lined up outside a nightclub, over a span of two blocks."
This should still raise the question: do sobriety checkpoints save lives? Even though this was the fault of the driver, and obviously an extremely rare event, would those people still be alive if the driver had just gone home?
I'm not anti-checkpoint or anything.
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#7I was two blocks away at Stubb's when this was going on, and I walked through that area many times already during SXSW. I very rarely realize how fragile my life is, but events like this make it real.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope. From another article: "The suspect was asked to pull over at a sobriety check point and instead sped away from a police car. He smashed through a police barricade and then plowed down people, some of them lined up outside a nightclub, over a span of two blocks."
This should still raise the question: do sobriety checkpoints save lives? Even though this was the fault of the driver, and obviously an extremely rare event, would those people still be alive if the driver had just gone home? I'm not anti-checkpoint or anything.
Are most sobriety checkpoints in an area with a lot of pedestrians nearby?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope. From another article: "The suspect was asked to pull over at a sobriety check point and instead sped away from a police car. He smashed through a police barricade and then plowed down people, some of them lined up outside a nightclub, over a span of two blocks."
This should still raise the question: do sobriety checkpoints save lives? Even though this was the fault of the driver, and obviously an extremely rare event, would those people still be alive if the driver had just gone home? I'm not anti-checkpoint or anything.
These specific people would, yes. But how many more people would risk driving drunk if they knew there were no sobriety checkpoints?
Re: SXSW: 2 dead, 23 injured.
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope. From another article: "The suspect was asked to pull over at a sobriety check point and instead sped away from a police car. He smashed through a police barricade and then plowed down people, some of them lined up outside a nightclub, over a span of two blocks."
This should still raise the question: do sobriety checkpoints save lives? Even though this was the fault of the driver, and obviously an extremely rare event, would those people still be alive if the driver had just gone home? I'm not anti-checkpoint or anything.
Sobriety checkpoints are illegal in Texas, anyway:
http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/checkpoint_laws.html