drunk wrong way driver kills bride still in wedding gown. minor injuries for him. truck vs. Corolla

[Demovictory9]

Authorities released this photo of Gonzalez-Rea's vehicle. His passenger fled on foot but later returned to the scene.

Relatives say Friday was supposed to be one of the happiest days of Angelica Dhondup's life. It ended up being the last. The 26-year-old bride was killed in a wrong-way crash on I-15 near Salt Lake City hours after she married her high school sweetheart, Fox reports.

Prosecutors say Dhondup's Toyota Corolla was hit head-on by Manaure Gonzalez-Rea's Toyota pickup as he traveled south in the northbound lanes around 1am Saturday. According to court documents, Gonzalez-Rea's truck flipped in the collision and he stole a truck belonging to a witness who had stopped to help, reports Gephardt Daily. He was arrested a few miles away and a breathalyzer test found that he had been drinking.

Gonzalez-Rea, 36, faces charges including automobile homicide, DUI, and theft, prosecutors said in a statement. Police said he suffered only minor injuries in the crash. Friends tell KSL that Dhondup, who died in her wedding dress, was on her way back to her wedding reception after dropping off gifts at her nearby home. A 20-year-old cousin in the vehicle had non-life-threatening injuries. "She hadn’t even been married a full 24 hours and is leaving behind a widowed husband 2 young handsome sons and a daughter she was a week away from adopting," relatives said in a GoFundMe fundraiser for funeral costs. "This has been so unreal," relatives said, adding: "Don't drink drive.

https://www.newser.com/story/309606/newlywed-bride-killed-in-wrong-way-crash.html?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_world_login

[ProfessorGAC]

1. What A Bummer!

And, going the wrong way on an interstate.
We had that happen here several years ago. Two people killed when a massively drunk guy hit them going the wrong way.
That dude's blood test showed 0.4 BAE! I'm surprised he was conscious.
Worst part: we were at a jam night where this guy had been drinking. He came from another joint (I'm guessing they quit serving him.).
The bartender at this place was GIVING him what he thought were bloody Marys. Except she was leaving out the vodka.
Some idiot told the guy, who wasn't even paying for the drinks, that they wasn't any liquor in the drinks.
He went ballistic. She calls cops. ANOTHER IDIOT tells him she called them! He bolts.
5 minutes later, he had killed 2 innocent people.

[snort]

2. Manaure is now Manure.

Bye.

[Tetrachloride]

3. My condolences to the family

As for myself, sober for quite a long time.

[pansypoo53219]

4. we have so many drunk drivers in WI, but 2 drag racing idiots killed 2 22 yr olds yesterday.

[JI7]

5. drag racing trash killed 3 young people last week in california

[Raine]

6. This is so sad 😞

R-I-P

[Cicada]

7. The infrastructure bill will end drunk driving. Really.

It requires every new vehicle to have a breathalyzer in the steering wheel. The engine will not start if the driver exceeds 0.08%. Vehicle manufacturers have 3 years to get this done. The cost is less than $100 per vehicle. This technology has been around for a long time, thank god Joe Biden is going to get it done.

[cinematicdiversions]

8. This seems like a vicious anti-Biden lie.

I would remove this.

[Celerity]

10. did you even do any basic searches before you attacked that poster?

They are not making it up, although some of their framing is off

Infrastructure bill includes key consumer safety measures to prevent drunk drivers, avoid hot car child deaths

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/infrastructure-bill-includes-key-consumer-safety-measures-prevent-drunk-drivers-n1275927

The infrastructure bill awaiting a Senate vote includes a number of automotive safety measures, one requiring new technology to keep drunk drivers off the road and another that alerts drivers who may have inadvertently left a child in their vehicle.

Drunk driving kills another American every 52 minutes, according to the NHTSA. Over the past five years, annual deaths have averaged over 10,000 deaths, or nearly 30 percent of total highway fatalities, NHTSA data shows. Those already convicted of drunk driving offenses may already have to prove they are sober, using technology similar to a police Breathalyzer. They blow into a tube, with sensors then detecting their blood alcohol level. A camera system confirms someone else isn’t blowing into the system. The technology is cumbersome and costly, said Carla Bailo, CEO of the Center for Automotive Research. The challenge is to come up with something easier to use and more affordable if it’s to be installed on millions of new vehicles each year. “I don’t think that will be as easy as people might think,” Bailo told NBC News.

Nissan, for one, is working on a system that would use several different methods to see if an impaired driver is behind the wheel. Multiple sensors detect alcohol in cabin air. A camera atop the instrument cluster looks for facial cues signaling the driver is inebriated, and the vehicle itself looks for driving patterns suggesting an impaired driver. But one concern is that the system could be triggered by drunk passengers, even with a sober, designated driver. The federal government is funding research through the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety program. Several possible solutions are being studied, including one similar to a Breathalyzer. It would measure alcohol in the air around the driver, however, rather than requiring a motorist to blow into a tube every time they want start their vehicle. Like Nissan’s system, the challenge is to avoid false positives from an inebriated passenger.

A second system measures blood alcohol content in the body’s capillaries by shining a light on a driver’s finger. It could be built into a vehicle’s start button or steering wheel. But the NHTSA has warned that any alcohol monitoring system will have to be “seamless, accurate and precise, and unobtrusive to the sober driver.” The agency wants to avoid the repeat of the seatbelt interlock fiasco of the mid-1970s. The system was designed to prevent a vehicle from being started if occupants weren’t buckled up. But it was prone to malfunctions, leaving drivers stranded.

A drunk driving monitor “could be put in,” said CAR’s Bailo, but she warned that “it’s going to be expensive and will have to be especially effective because “people will try to cheat.” Still, proponents contend it’s worth the cost. A 2010 study by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety estimated drunk driving has an annual societal cost of $210 billion. “The auto industry has long been committed to supporting public and private efforts to address this tragic threat to road safety,” John Bozzella, CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, an auto industry consortium, said in a statement sent to NBC News. “This legislation furthers the possibility for advanced technologies to help address the risk of impaired driving.

[Cicada]

11. I think it was a joke.

Biden might lose a lot of votes from members of DAMM, drunks against mad mothers.

And As Tom Waits said I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. What happens if the system fails? The car doesn't start? Or the car does start? NT