Drinking and Driving

This has been a difficult week in Santa Cruz County. There have been not one, not two, but three accidents caused by drunk drivers. Two of the three accidents resulted in the deaths of innocent people just going about their life. What is there to say. I have thought several times about the young woman who had been walking home from her boyfriend's house Monday night when she fell victim to a careless driver who had 3 previous DUI charges. Last night a 19-year-old college student was arrested for felony drunk driving and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated after he veered his truck into the rear of a bicycle travelling on the side of the roadway. That unidentified man was killed. Sad. Just sad.

This is by no means a great photo but it is the only evidence I saw from a nightmare that will haunt families and friends of this week's victims for years to come.

CHP Officer Grant Boles holds a bike an unidentified man was riding when he was hit and killed by a drunk driver on Thurber Lane in
Santa Cruz early Friday morning.