MI - Troy police arrest 7 impaired drivers in 10 days

[BetteDavisEyes]

Troy police arrest 7 impaired drivers in 10 days: Locations, driver info, what happened in each case (clickondetroit.com)

Police arrest 4 women, 3 men from around Metro Detroit

TROY, Mich. – Troy police made seven impaired driving arrests over the final 10 days of November. Four women and three men from all around Metro Detroit were involved.

Here’s what happened in all seven cases...

 

[TobyWong*]

I live and work in this area daily and can tell you it feels batsh@#t crazy driving around here lately and thats just during working hours. Every morning and every drive home is filled w drivers cutting in and out and angry. Thats not including late night impaired drivers. Things are scary out there.

 

[Filly]

I live and work in this area daily and can tell you it feels batsh@#t crazy driving around here lately and thats just during working hours. Every morning and every drive home is filled w drivers cutting in and out and angry. Thats not including late night impaired drivers. Things are scary out there.

Sending good vibes your defensive driving keeps you safe.

Where they all going. Bars are closed, right? Just driving around drunk or hanging with friends?

Yeah we are all a little sad or depressed, but not enough to kill people because we drank a bottle of gin or six pack.

 

[LadyL]

I live and work in this area daily and can tell you it feels batsh@#t crazy driving around here lately and thats just during working hours. Every morning and every drive home is filled w drivers cutting in and out and angry. Thats not including late night impaired drivers. Things are scary out there.

there's probably more daytime impaired drivers because not working because of Covid etc. too

 

[Ozoner]

I live and work in this area daily and can tell you it feels batsh@#t crazy driving around here lately and thats just during working hours. Every morning and every drive home is filled w drivers cutting in and out and angry. Thats not including late night impaired drivers. Things are scary out there.

I also live in Michigan, and the problem is that the penalties for driving under the influence are not severe enough in Michigan. Most people who do it get off with a fine. Many of the people you see driving drunk are rich snobs driving around in Mercedes Benz sedans, etc. The fines have no effect on them; they spend more on top-shelf vodka martinis in a week than what they have to pay in fines.
Driving under the influence should carry a statutory minimum of a year in prison for the first offense along with automatic forfeiture of the vehicle being driven and life in prison for the second offense. Many people are killed by drunk drivers, so I don't see repeat drunk drivers as being much different from serial killers.