Am I The Only One Who Wants To Know?
A report out of Grapevine, Texas in the January 12th Ft. Worth Star-Telegram noted the following:
“A Bedford woman’s blood-alcohol level was almost double the legal limit on an October night when she hit a guardrail on Texas 121 and her car ended up in an oncoming lane, police said Monday. But the incident didn’t end there. Within minutes [after the woman] had gotten out of her 2002 Honda Civic, [she] watched as a motorcycle crashed into her car, killing the rider, police said Monday.”
Two lives, one gone, one forever damaged by this insidious drug we refuse to deal with in the public domain. I grieve for both families. As a motorcycle rider I can identify with the danger in the dark of night when no lights illlumine an accident scene. I can hurt, even while angry, for one whose life, even for a few minutes, is controlled by alcohol.
But I want to know! Who served this woman the alcohol? Was she coming from home where she drank alone, booze she had purchased at the liquor store, and was foolishly on her way somewhere in this condition? Had she been at a party, a friend’s house, a Company meeting, a bar, a restaurant. . .where? Who served her the booze? Could they not tell that we was way over the limit? Did they not care she was headed toward a car; a place where she would destroy, to some degree, her life, and take the life of another? Somebody is responsible here! Is it just her? Maybe, and I’ll live with that. But I would wager that is not the case. Someone else knew. Someone else contributed. It was a conspiracy to provide this dangerous drug in excess to someone unable or unwilling to control their actions. Who? Why? Will it happen again? Is someone else going to be charged, and rightly so, with a crime in this tragedy? Are the police asking this question? Why not? Is the District Attorney pursuing this course? Is the Texas Legislature at fault because there is no “crime” on the part of others not at the death scene? Is this the first time we have ever seen such a thing? Is it the last time we ever will?
I WANT TO KNOW! I want to know before I die on the highway, or someone you or I llove dies or kills someone on the highway!I want to know before the broken glass and smoking rubber are swept into the tall grass along the edge of the freeway and we wait quietly for the next one!