Drunk driving

August 18, 2007 at 5:57 am (Uncategorized)

For my first entry, I thought I’d share our little adventure with drunk driving this evening. We were driving home from eating dinner tonight and we got stuck behind about 10 other cars driving at least 20 miles below the speed limit. Chad noticed that the leader of the line, the car holding everyone up, was weaving in and out of the lane. We finally reached the road we needed to turn on and guess which car was directly behind us! You guessed it…the slow, weaving car. We started following it because we had no other option. The car stopped at green lights, swerved off the road and back on, turned its headlights off then on several times. I called 911 to report the drunk driving. We kept following the car expecting to see a cop car any minute. Our next turn approached and sure enough the swerving car turned the same direction. We kept following it and no cop car appeared. I called the police again to report the drunk driving. We kept following the car. At our next turn, the other car also turned. We kept following the car but no police car appeared. Our next turn came but we decided to continue following the car. Shortly after we passed our turn, another car started following the drunk driving car as well. We kept following the car. It almost side swiped a car. It continued to drive about 20 under the speed limit. It stopped at a few more green lights, straddled the lanes and almost drove off the road a few times. I called the police a third time to report it. We kept driving along with the other car following this menace. The car finally turned and we turned but Chad decided he was done, the police were useless and he didn’t want us to end up in some weird, scarey part of town. Chad flipped a “U” to head home, but just as he did, a police car with flashing lights whizzed by us toward the drunk driver and then another one and then another one came. We quickly turned back around and pulled in behind the other car that had been following the drunk driver. Another cop car pulled in behind us. I got out and was told to wait a minute for someone to take my statement. A minute or two later, a sheriff came and took my statement about what we witnessed. Chad saw an officer make the drive walk the line, which Chad reports she did very well, considering how she was driving. I gave my statement and we were on our way. It was shocking to us that it took three calls from us and who knows how many from the other car following the drunk driver and at least 20-25 minutes for any police to pull this woman over. Thankfully, the woman was driving 20 under the speed limit almost the whole way, rather than 20 over or she could have killed someone.