On June 22, 2011, after a night of heavy drinking, four friends got in a car to head home. Tragedy struck when Evan Green, 22, lost control of the wheel and the car flipped several times. Two of the passengers, Marcus Nelson of Castro Valley and Aaron Beaver of Eureka were killed. Both of them were 21 years old. The other passenger suffered serious injuries.
Evan Green, a Chico State student, faced four years in prison. He said that the tragedy mentally tortured him. “I will suffer for the rest of my life,” he said, addressing a packed courtroom, “I’m sorry.”
Initial testing showed that Green's alcohol blood level was way beyond California's legal limit of 0.08%, it was between 0.245 and 0.232 percent. During the September hearing, Green pleaded no contest to the multiple charges that include two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. It was a dramatic hearing, some of the relatives of the victims were present. Even Superior Court Judge Jacquelyn Duffy struggled to hold back the tears. She said that Green clearly loved his friends. However, the victims' families also loved them and what Green did put the community at risk, and two young people lost their lives.
In California, 2010 statistics shows that 1,768 people died from traffic accidents involving alcohol. Drivers aged 21 to 24 are the most likely age group to go beyond the alcohol blood level limit. In San Luis Obispo, 2285 DUI arrest were recorded in 2005 and they were 19 drunk driving fatalities.
In the case of Evan Green, he did not fight the charges and the victims were accorded justice. But for others, justice may be harder to attain.
Drunk driving is a common case of personal injury in San Luis Obispo. Lawyers in San Luis Obispo can be your guide in navigating the procedure in filing a personal injury case. If you or your kin is a victim of drunk driving, get a personal injury lawyer in San Luis Obispo to help you. Attorneys in San Luis Obispo can help you get justice as you deal with this emotional situation.
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