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Originally Posted by Lakegeezer
"...OK - the forum will get excited for a few days because this almost never happens in boats. Its unusual when a drunk crashes a boat and its different to see pictures of a boat driven 15 feet onto an island rather than a car tumbled over a road enbankment..."
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Chances are excellent that a driver whose
car "tumbled into an embankment" will at least be recorded statistically as an accident. Just a few days earlier when the lake level was at its extreme height, this
boat could have "gotten air" all the way to a resident's bedroom!
I wouldn't be so dismissive of this event. Will a
boat that drove up to somebody's house be statistically recorded as something other than "Collision with Fixed Object", or "No Proper Lookout"?
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Originally Posted by jrc
"...Without the booze this is just an accident. Insurance company fixes the boat. all is forgiven. As another accident showed, it's hard to prove BUI after the fact..."
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Seen the headlines?
We now have "The Ambien
®-Defense", and it's been used by a Congressman in Washington: The words "appears intoxicated" appear on the police report—two other charges were pled down and dismissed!
Volunteered testimony regarding one's own prescribed medicine could spell the end of BWI
c-o-n-v-i-c-t-i-o-n-s. I fear that it's not a new Defense tactic: Insurance will pay-up—or else.
IMHO, better that more charges are added:
Without the BWI, and sober or not, it can be calculated at what velocity Eagle Island was "tagged". Given those Ambien
® headlines, any and all additional charges could—and ultimately should—be added.
This is still another Coast Guard statistic...waiting to be missed...from Lake Winnipesaukee.
IMHO.