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Woman Gets Six Years for Simultaneously Drinking, Driving, and Calling

by Terrence O'Brien on July 15, 2008 at 08:49 AM



This is one of those cases where the sheer stupidity involved is overwhelming. If, by now, you're not fully aware of the dangers involved with driving while intoxicated, then you're probably too dumb to actually pass a road test anyway. However, to combine drunkenness, speeding, and talking on your cell phone takes a whole new level of carelessness.

Sarah Taylor, now 23, won't be getting out of jail until she's almost 30 because she got behind the wheel of her Fiat while heavily intoxicated and proceeded to have a conversation on her cell phone. Taylor slammed head on into the Mini of Melanie Simon Lee, who lost control of her vehicle and landed in lanes of oncoming traffic on the M61 highway near Brindle, England. At the time of the impact, Lee's car was stopped in the middle of the road and passers-by stopped to help her. Taylor, preoccupied and drunk, didn't notice the initial accident and then plowed into Lee's Mini, which is what caused the ultimately fatal injuries.

Taylor plead guilty in court and will serve six years in prison. Um, okay, since when does drinking-induced manslaughter get someone only six years? Let's hope this triple threat never drinks, drives, or talks on her cell phoen again. [Source: Cellular News, via Textually]

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