# General car talk

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 30, 2022, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-car-talk/970611 "2022-08-30T15:18:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2022, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/general-car-talk/970611/52 "2022-09-08T02:12:10Z")

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Hi @Capn_Carl. Ref my post 2 above this one in reply to your post.

See this thread which has just appeared and the cited news article:

> [@Darwin in action :Speeding woman on cocaine kills drunk driver high on meth, police say](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darwin-in-acttion-speeding-woman-on-cocaine-kills-drunk-driver-high-on-meth-police-say/971173):
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> Just wow everyone was high and drunk at least 10 times the legal limits … at least it was morons hitting morons and not some mini SUV full of kids

The article states the police did pull the cars’ telemetry (more likely onboard data recorder, not really tele-anything), as part of their investigation.

Although this was a pretty spectacular crash, similar events occur nearly daily in most major metropolitan areas.

So digging into data recorders & telemetry post-accident is happening at least some. And IMO more all the time.

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