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I was involved in a 5 fatality drunk driving accident in 1978.
My wife was driving our 1972 Impala and broadsided a car that had run a flashing red light at a rural intersection. Her brother and his wife, their eight year old daughter, our 6 week old daughter, and I were also in the car.
The other driver was a 16 year old boy, with a 16 year old girl and two other boys, both 17, as passengers. They had been to a party and the driver was extremely drunk, BAL of .16, more than twice the legal limit.
My sister-in-law and all three passengers in the other car were killed outright. The other driver died the next day. Everyone else was injured except our baby daughter, who didn’t have a scratch.
The parents of the party’s teenage host had provided the booze. They were jailed briefly and eventually plea-bargained for a probated sentence. The dead driver’s insurance company eventually got a court judgment against them but it was overturned.