# Do you personally know anyone who was killed by a drunk driver? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 1, 2019, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-was-killed-by-a-drunk-driver/844241 "2019-12-01T18:03:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-was-killed-by-a-drunk-driver/844241/41 "2019-12-04T16:21:40Z")
My great grandfather, a great uncle, and one of their friends, while driving to the lake for a fishing trip. They were hit by a drunk driver. All three died. My father was supposed to go with them, but had to back out of the trip at the last moment. ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2019, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-was-killed-by-a-drunk-driver/844241/42 "2019-12-04T23:17:53Z")
Once during the juror selection process (I was in the pool), the defense attorney asked for a show of hands of those who had been impacted by a drunk driving death. I was stunned that about half the crowd raised a hand. The attorney then asked for a show of hands of those who thought their judgement would be affected by this, and only a few hands stayed up. I lost two young cousins to a drunk driver. A third young cousin was horrifically and permanently disabled. ---
**Author:** ![bengangmo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bengangmo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bengangmo)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-was-killed-by-a-drunk-driver/844241/43 "2019-12-05T00:50:01Z")
Class mate killed a friend of his while driving drunk. He’d left the friend asleep in the car while drinking, continued driving afterwards and both went through the windshield. He got jail time. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-was-killed-by-a-drunk-driver/844241/44 "2019-12-05T02:48:29Z")
I don’t know personally anyone killed by a drunk driver, but my father was killed by an inattentive driver, who took his eyes off the road to put in a CD. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-was-killed-by-a-drunk-driver/844241/45 "2019-12-05T03:57:35Z")
Two brothers who lived down the road from me as I was growing up both died in a single vehicle DUI crash. It was just the two of them in the car and I’m not sure which one was driving. I played t-ball as a kid with the younger brother and knew his older brother reasonably well. They were the only two children their parents had and their deaths left their parents broken. And I knew a young woman who was killed in a DUI crash. The drunk driver was driving a tractor trailer while still drunk from the previous night even at nearly 3pm. He had been out celebrating getting released from jail after serving a short sentence on a prior DUI conviction. ---
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-was-killed-by-a-drunk-driver/844241/46 "2019-12-05T11:34:37Z")
No. And come to think of it, I can only think of one person I knew, and even then not that well (co-worker), who was killed in a car accident. Is that atypical? j ---
**Author:** ![MarvinKitFox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ba0ec/32.png) [@MarvinKitFox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MarvinKitFox)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-was-killed-by-a-drunk-driver/844241/47 "2019-12-06T06:19:20Z")
A childhood friend of mine, was killed by a drunk driver. He got drunk at a party, raced off on his motorbike to go fetch some munchies, and drove off a bridge into the river. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-was-killed-by-a-drunk-driver/844241/48 "2019-12-06T07:48:40Z")
> [@RivkahChaya](#): > > Getting two black eyes from her older brother Who do you think set me up with [her?](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/d9daf6ac-8d91-4220-84bc-f61104076f14) 😃 ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-was-killed-by-a-drunk-driver/844241/49 "2019-12-06T07:51:53Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > Do you count people killed in single car drunk driving accidents? If so, yes, a neighbor back in high school. Two friends died this way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-personally-know-anyone-who-was-killed-by-a-drunk-driver/844241.md?page=2)