So i was driving my GF home (yes, i am one of the few people on this forum with a significant other that is female)after going out to eat and a movie. I notice that a car is stopped at a light, with a highschool boy, from a separate car, waving a flashlight to direct traffic away from the stopped car. The stopped car was a mexican highschool student who was passed out, with his foot on the brake (it was not in park...), and face on the wheel.
So i pulled my car up behind the passed out car (as he was in the middle lane and the kid with the flashlight was an idiot). SO remember, this is all occurring at a stoplight.
The kid apparently wakes up. He starts to drive through a red light, where 2 cars, who have the green light, are slamming on their breaks and swerving out of the way.
He nearly hits a brick wall before he jerks the car at a 45 degree angle, literally going in between 2 HUGE trees (something i doubt most people could do sober going that speed) and then missing a metal pole and a side of a bridge (where actual scratches were found from his car) and went down a 15 foot trench where he hit trees. And between his 45 degree turn, he nearly hit 2 more cars as he went across a median and the wrong way down their street.
I arrive and find that a bunch of people are already there calling the police ( i guess the people who almost got hit stopped to help). Yet no one was helping him.... I know this because i asked d,did anyone get the driver?, and 5 people gave me a blank stare. I hate the bystanderd effect.
So i told my girl to stay in the car and call the police (i didnt want her to get in the way/say things like be careful when im doing this..). The incline down to the car was at a 65 degree angle, 15 feet down, all paved cement, with no footing at all. i slid down went through the 1 foot deep creak and opened his door. the car was smoking,the engine was on, there was a lot of @#$% going on. This wasnt my first accident i had to help in,do all the work too, and smelt gas with the engine on and thought this was the part of the movie where i blow up. the guy was conscious, so i turned off the car, and i dragged him out (after i asked him to move and he could use his back/neck properly). I took him up the 15 foot incline, by myself, by his hands...while everyone just watched (@#$%, i hate bystanders). i cut a 3 inch wide hole in my leg from a piece of metal on the incline that i had no idea existed...
and to give you an idea of how steep it was, when the firefighters came, they used a harness and rope to go down there...
anyways, the guy was obviously @#$% up. he was not just drinking or smokin a lil somethin somethin. clearly is was prescription pills of some kind with alcohol. and this random mexican came in a decked out car, took a bunch of things from the kid (obviously drugs) and left. the cops did not arrive by this time, and the firefighters cared less for some reason. the kid even went BACK DOWN to throw away some drugs from the car, and say he was smoking a cigarette. and the kid with the flashlight disappeared, but that was no surprise. So i gave my statement, to some rent-a-cops that were at the scene, and gave them my address.
I received a letter telling me
NO ONE who was there, about 8 people, who said they would testify, are going to anymore. The letter says im the only one left. and after telling you the majority of the whole story, should i?
I remember being a stupid kid, not like that, but still, and seeing my friends who got DUIs that ended up ruining there lives because of it. obviously i will do what needs to be done, but in this case idk what that means. (they wont give me his real name until i agree, so i cant ask/talk to him to see the kind of person he is)
and so do i send him to JAIL for over 5 years they say, or let it slide, where he could do it again or worse...?
