Drunk Mayor Crashes Car While Driving Home From Meeting With Victims Of Drunk Drivers
Sounds like a Florida incident, but this actually happened in Australia. (I’m sure it’ll happen in Florida eventually.) Via 7News.au:
A Queensland mayor purportedly declared, “we need to clean up the drunk driving” before she drank “several glasses of wine” and crashed her car.
Redlands Mayor Karen Williams had presented herself as an advocate for the families of the victims of drunk drivers before the crash on Thursday night.
On Thursday afternoon, the Redlands mayor Williams hosted an online meeting with the families, as well as Judy Lindsay whose daughter Hayley was killed in a crash involving a drink driver in 2009.
“We talked about road safety awareness, we talked about drunk driving, we talked about drug driving, we talked about how we were going to change the youth justice act and how we were going to get this story out,” Lindsay told 7NEWS.
“She looked me in the face and said, ‘Judy, I’m deeply sorry about what happened to your daughter Hayley. It’s just such a tragedy’.
According to Lindsay, Williams had claimed she wanted to make it her political “legacy” to address road safety issues such as drunk driving.
Lindsay has called for Williams to immediately resign.
Williams has so far refused to do that. She has admitted she had “several glasses of wine” before the crash, and admits it was a mistake getting behind the wheel but refuses to resign, saying it would be a “rash decision”.
[7News.au]
Uhh, OK, she won’t resign, but shouldn’t she be in jail? She literally admitted to driving drunk and crashing her car. Police are reportedly investigating the crash, per the Guardian:
Police are awaiting blood analysis before finalising their investigation into the matter, and no charges have been laid.
