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In reply to the discussion: Father indicted:-Moments after his 2 sons were killed by the driver, the drunk was fatally shot [View all]magical thyme
(14,881 posts)There may not have been much time to react. If they are pushing the car facing forward, which is how it's normally done, they might have barely time to hear the car, see lights in the road; turn around and it's over. If another car was ahead of the drunk driver's car, and that car swerved around them, they wouldn't have even had that much notice.
We don't know how he ran out of gas, but it was not necessarily negligence. In older cars, the gas gauges sometimes die. More than once in my life, I've seen friends checking tablets they calculated their gas use on to know if they need to fill up. One simple math error or transposition of numbers and they are screwed.
And not too long ago, at a gas station I watched a woman freak out when I pointed out that the gas she was putting into her car was gushing out the bottom. So gas tanks sometimes die as well.
On the other hand, I have zero tolerance of drunk driving. There is no excuse or good or acceptable reason for that.
I do imagine that any punishment they inflict on the father will be minor compared to the punishment he probably is inflicting on himself.