I had not heard about the bottle, if that is the case I would highly suspect that the husbands actions and statements to the press with his attorney denying he had ever even seen her drunk in all the years they were married etc etc is a full legal defense posture at this time. Because you have two nieces killed and the poor people in the other car, someone is being sued big time here.

I heard two of the families of the men in the 2nd car have filed suits...

y'know, having two little ones myself, i just get so phukking sad when i read and hear about this. this poor family who lost all 3 of their kids and they werent anywhere near them just kills me. you almost wish this woman made it through so she would have to live with this. this is the most tragic of scenarios and i couldnt even begin to imagine what these people must be going through. this is truely the worst thing that could happen.
why would anyone do this with somebody elses family in the car?

Ditto everything you said CTT...I got 2 little ones also 9 & 12.

Hard core alcoholics are MASTERS at hiding their addiction...the fact it was a vodka bottle indicates this as vodka is much more difficult to detect casually...alcoholics truly believe they can handle it...gross denial if ever it existed...and sometimes spouses don't see it because they don't WANT to see it...more denial...

MMAD has done us all a favor by making the penalties higher for alcohol related traffic events (they are not accidents) ... but I don't know how to stop something like this...do we all have to start breathing into a tube attached to our cars before they will start?...sounds heavy, but it would have saved those 8 lives and many more we'll never hear about...and that's the problem...we all pay a price for the stupidity of others...

wanna know something reel? if it would have saved those beautiful little girls, i'll breath into the phukking tube everytime i get in my car.
might not be the worst idea.
gotta tell you guys, i dont know why but this story really hit home for me. i dont know why. there is no connection here but it just makes me cry like a girl and i havent cried since the episode of "magnum p.i." when he got shot. you know the one when they kept playing that g d john denver song.

Charlie is spot on in both posts. So sad that she had these young ones in the car with her. Certainly makes me tear up as well.

I know breathalyzers would be a pain and certainly an inconvenience, but none of us has the "right" to drive drunk. I know some folks can hold their alcohol better than others, but too many people can't and even those who can are still very much open to making a deadly mistake.

I thought I saw an article somewhere that there was a plan to put the breatalyzer feature into cars that are owned by repeat offenders of DUI???

I think some states/municipalities have done that...unfortunately it wouldn't have saved these people as this gal was clean...

she was clean?? i thought she was on vodka and weed