Why would someone kill or injure another person in an accident and flee? Either the driver is hiding something or has something to protect - usually themselves. It would seem that some people, if they think they can get away with something, will try no matter the penalties for doing so. These people see right as what benefits themselves, and wrong as the problem of someone else.
Breakdowns of these reasons were collaborated into “DUSA” which stands for Driving in the USA.
D - Driving impaired (drinking, drugs, drowsy, distracted)
U - Unlicensed driver or car (such as illegal immigrant), suspended or revoked (repeat offender), uninsured
S - Self-preservation (secret to keep, status to protect, scared), stolen vehicle, street racing
A - Aggressive driving (road rage), amorality, Age (youthful immaturity)
Driving impaired is a problem across the nation, but thanks to activist groups such as Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) the numbers have steadily gone down each year.
Even as the figures decrease, still 39% of fatal crashes involve an impaired driver.
The very unfortunate aspect of this problem is that in many states, an impaired driver who does not flee the scene of a fatality accident now faces the possibility of a heavier sentence than their counterparts that may flee. So why wouldn’t they leave the scene?
"Unfortunately, because hit-and-run crashes are punished less severely than alcohol-related crashes, we have given drunk drivers an incentive to flee the crime to try to escape having a BAC test done," as stated on MADD website.
Jurors have heard every story from
hit-and-run perpetrators such as ‘I was sober when I had the accident but I was so upset I ran home and got drunk’.
The most common hit-and-run drivers are motorists who have been committed of several
DUI charges and flee the scene because they feel that they have nothing to lose.
The Davis Law Group Hit-And-Run Reward Program offers up to $1,000 for information that leads to the arrest and felony conviction of hit-and-run drivers through anonymous tips provided to the WeTip Crime Hotline, 1-800-6-Hit-N-Run (1-800-644-8678).
Click here to read the Washington State Hit-And-Run Law.
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