What is worse - driving drunk and running over a child or being sober and running over a child?
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If you're planning on doing it - don't!  This is premeditated murder and the prosecutors will figure it out. \n\nBut if you're just wondering, or too lazy to do your criminal law homework, then it depends on the intent.  \n\nIf the guy is sober, and intentionally runs over a child, that's straight-up murder.  He will be raped by cellmates, beaten to a pulp, and get the needle in 20 years.\n\nIf the guy was only distracted - talking/arguing on the cell, looking at map, officiating fights of his own kids in the backseat, attacked by his Chihuahua, shot by Dick Cheney, etc., then we're talking about lesser degrees of murder.  Probably vehicular manslaughter and about 10 years or less.  \n\nNow, if the guy is drunk and runs over a kid, he's up for drunk driving and vehicular manslaughter.  In some states, there are special laws that make the sentence especially harsh.  This is because being drunk actually takes away the "intentional" part of the murder, but people decided that drunk driving and killing people is no less culpable.  \n\nSo...\n\n1) DON'T DO IT!\n2) Let me know if your law professor liked the answer; or \n3) Still wanna be a lawyer?
130065
Yeah, I'd go out accidents happen all the time, and you just have to hope that it's not you or someone you know that it happens to (I know it sounds horrible but you know it's true). Plus leaving an over sheltered life is worse than living an overly dangerous one, in my opinion.
34750
Driving while either intoxicated or drunk is dangerous and drivers with high blood alcohol content (BAC) are at increased risk of car accidents, highway injuries and vehicular deaths.
143757
I learned when I was 3.  I lost my father to a drunk driving accident, he was the drunk driver.  It was something that I really never recovered from, my mother did the best she could to raise me and my sister, but I still never had a father figure.  It has also made it difficult on me now as a father myself.
139358
You will be penalized for allowing him to drive while intoxicated. You will probably also get in trouble for being in the car and not stopping him.
883613
He got what he deserved.  People are always only thinking about themselves and that they are the only ones on the road.  They don't realize how many people they put in danger with their driving. And then to have your own child in the car and still drive like an idiot, that's what you get.  As a parent, you are supposed to set the example for them to follow, he was certainly setting a great one.
33245
drunk, marajuana affects your lungs. Alcohol just gives you a hangover.
1008695
My personal OPINION...I would rather my friends, family, children or anyone else to smoke weed than to drink alcohol.  Most people don't understand weed...it's not  a drunk...it makes you eyes red yeah...but it doesn't impair you like alcohol...so YEAH..if my kids are going to do something...go for the WEED!
623594
I gave birth - huge responsibility.\n\nIrresponsible - I drove drunk once.
910192
It's not the reaction times -- it's the crime itself you're punished for.\n\nDriving while intoxicated is a special case because there are special laws regulating alcholol and other intoxicant. But while it's easy to test for drug/alcohol use in an objective blood test, it's almost impossible to test for emotional or situational impairments.\n\nSo, driving while intoxicated can be punished by itself, separately, because there can be objective standards. But anything else can only be punished based on the objective results.
615542
happened righ5t in our county..parents were away..kid had party..another kid got drunk and hit by car. he then went home and died in his sleep from internal injuries. they are both vets and own a horse farm. they got charged and are facing lawsuits..good old communist ny..genesee county in particular
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Sixteen year old driving in Missouri with no license and no insurance was busted for driving drunk. What can happen to her parents?\n\nI'm not sure, some areas press charges on the parents, most likely though, you, the child, will be charged with driving without a license (not smart), under the influence (also not smart), and possibly charged with breaking curfew, if your area has one. Get a lawyer, you will need it.
510889
DUI- driving under the influence\nDWI- driving while intoxicated
634600
It is against the law to drink and drive or to have an open container in your car/truck.It is against the law to have alcohol within the reach of the driver!Even if you are a passenger in the car,if you are in the front seat,it is illegal for you to have alcohol in your possession!
341692
There is nothing you can do. You should've thought about that before you drove after drinking
497269
I can't choose between two:\n\n1. When I was 10 I used to ride my bike as fast as I could on the gravel driveway between these two trailor homes so that I couldn't see the traffic on the main road, and then jet across  the busy highway hoping no on would hit me. Why? Duh... It was dangerous. It was like Schwinn Roulette!\n\n2. One time I did some windsheild surfing where you stand on the front of the car while it goes really fast down the road. Like a surfboard, only it has no grip and it goes about 45 miles an hour FASTER. That was stupid, but probably not as deadly as the other one.
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Neither. Both are accidents waiting to happen.