Twins Killed by "Impaired" Driver Carrying Alcoholics Anonymous Brochure in His Car, Other twin dies - Polidicks

[img]http://media.cmgdigital.com/shared/lt/lt_cache/thumbnail/400/img/photos/2013/11/12/10/9a/GrandeJAnessah.JPG[/img] [quote]Monday night in Oak Harbor the, "Pray for Janesah" was still lit outside the family business. Seventeen-year-old Janesah Goheen fought 11 days to survive after the Halloween night crash that killed her twin sister, Janeah Goheen. "This is the longest they've been apart,” the twins' pastor, Russell Schlecht, told KIRO 7. “One being taken instantly, one enduring as long as she could." Janesah’s progress during the last week and a half had given some hope, but she died Monday afternoon at Harborview Medical Center. She was surrounded by her family, and her friends. Schlecht was there, too. “By about 3 o’clock in this afternoon, they were reuniting these two girls. It's awful, and yet there's a beauty to it. A sense there this needed to happen.” The Goheen twins were heading to a haunted house in Seattle on Halloween, with another friend. Troopers say 53-year-old Ira Blackstock crossed the centerline on Highway 20 in his Mustang and slammed into their car. Investigators say Blackstock showed signs of impairment. An Alcoholics Anonymous brochure and a Bible were in the backseat of his car. He remains in jail, charged with vehicular homicide and assault.[/quote] [url]http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/twin-sister-dies-following-halloween-crash/nbp3k/[/url] Terrible.

While nothing's going to bring back those who've lost their lives in incidents like this, I really wish people would have the common sense to not go around driving while drunk. Optimistic, yes, but it would spare a lot of grief if they would not do idiotic shit of this nature.

As tragic as this is, I also feel a little sad for the driver [QUOTE]An Alcoholics Anonymous brochure and a Bible were in the backseat of his car.[/QUOTE] I don't know why the article explicitly doesn't say that he was drunk or not, but if he was and this stuff was with him when he was found, it could mean he had a relapse. Now, he has to live with the death of those two girls on his conscience. A part of me says that he deserved the sentence simply because his actions and poor decision making were what killed them, after all. But another part of me also knows very well what addiction and alcoholism can do to a person - my best friend killed himself after spending the better part of six years fighting alcoholism. This man might've been on that path of recovery to turn his life around, to defeat his inner demons when his fuck up destroyed everything. This just...... adds to the tragedy of what happened here. Sometimes I wish, with all this car technology, that car makers to start implementing technology that detects erratic driving patterns and shut down for the safety of the driver and for the other road users.

Goddamn, their older sister apparently also got run over and killed five years prior to this. Shit, must be terrible for the parents.

[QUOTE=snookypookums;42850849] This just...... adds to the tragedy of what happened here. Sometimes I wish, with all this car technology, that car makers to start implementing technology that detects erratic driving patterns and shut down for the safety of the driver and for the other road users.[/QUOTE] It would be great but I can't see this working with rough roads, ice, etc.

How about one of those breathtests that you meed to take to start the engine? I remember that being experimented with here in the Netherlands. Can't remember the results,but it seems pretty good.

[QUOTE=Zotobom;42852464]How about one of those breathtests that you meed to take to start the engine? I remember that being experimented with here in the Netherlands. Can't remember the results,but it seems pretty good.[/QUOTE] Sadly that won't really impede people who drink [i]while[/i] driving. Although you'd need to have the car running for quite a bit (or just be a lightweight) to push yourself from 0 BAC to above the legal limit without powering the car down at any point. And while it would be able to address being under the influence of alcohol, it still leaves other impairing factors unchecked that aren't as readily detectable, such as being too tired to operate the vehicle safely. Sounds like a good first step though.

[QUOTE=Psychopath12;42852529]Sadly that won't really impede people who drink [i]while[/i] driving. Although you'd need to have the car running for quite a bit (or just be a lightweight) to push yourself from 0 BAC to above the legal limit without powering the car down at any point. And while it would be able to address being under the influence of alcohol, it still leaves other impairing factors unchecked that aren't as readily detectable, such as being too tired to operate the vehicle safely. Sounds like a good first step though.[/QUOTE] They do have those though, friend's dad had a car mounted brethalyzer retrofitted to his car after a DUI charge. It was real simple, blow into the device, if it hits above a certain mark it won't let you start the car.

Investigators say he showed no signs of impairment, and alcohol isn't mentioned anywhere in the article other than the brochure, so I don't know why the thread title says he was impaired, unless the journalist that wrote the article just left out half of the information.

[QUOTE=Bentham;42853003]Investigators say he showed no signs of impairment, and alcohol isn't mentioned anywhere in the article other than the brochure, so I don't know why the thread title says he was impaired, unless the journalist that wrote the article just left out half of the information.[/QUOTE] The full article and the part quoted in the OP both say: [quote]Investigators say Blackstock showed signs of impairment.[/quote]