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He'd drunk 750ml of cognac. Cedars noted he was under influence and smelled of marijuana. I think he'd stopped at a weed shop at 11AM or so on day of accident.

He'd drunk 750ml of cognac. Cedars noted he was under influence and smelled of marijuana. I think he'd stopped at a weed shop at 11AM or so on day of accident. He was going downhill on a sidewalk covered by trash. It's actually not totally clear the sidewalk issue was cause of accident. He hit a tree parallel to the uplift, the city wonders how that was possible, if he hit the uplift and pitched forward it would be weird to hit a tree parallel to the uplift. There were other issues on the hill (trash etc). There had been no service records to fix sidewalk in 10 year search by city. Smoking weed impairs you. He smelled of weed and stopped at a cannabis store. Even ignoring all this, he accelerated down this hill, never applied the brakes. I'm just pointing out some other factors that may have caused his accident other than the city being idiots.

gruez 5y ago
> He'd drunk 750ml of cognac. Cedars noted he was under influence and smelled of marijuana. I think he'd stopped at a weed shop at 11AM or so on day of accident. Seriously? If true, then it would have taken him 30(!) hours to metabolize all that alochol[1]. Depending on how the timeline is (eg. drinks at 10pm, interview at 12pm the next day), it seems very plausible that he's over the legal limit. 750ml * 40% ABV = 300ml of alcohol. The human body can metabolize 10ml of alochol per hour, so that works out to 30 hours to metabolize it all. Even if it was 15 hours since he drank, his ABV would still be way over the limit[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_alcohol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_alcohol [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content
- dzhiurgis 5y ago
  Being drunk obviously makes take bad decisions, but doesn’t make your spine crush any more, nor does wearing helmet would make any difference. Accidents like that happen all the time, regardless of mode of transport.
  - xyzzyz 5y ago
    I'd risk hypothesizing that "accidents like that" happen quite a bit more to people who are drunk. This is, after all, why we have laws prohibiting "driving while intoxicated" and not, say, "driving while fabulous".
    - dzhiurgis 5y ago
      Well, driving distracted probably kills more… I really don’t know how law works, but drunk drive prevention should be separate issue from attributing malice. Do we really incarcerate people who get t-boned while hungover?
superfrank 5y ago
> He'd drunk 750ml of cognac. Cedars noted he was under influence and smelled of marijuana Not arguing, but where are you getting that info. None of that was mentioned in the linked article. > I think he'd stopped at a weed shop at 11AM or so on day of accident. That doesn't really mean much. Going to a weed store doesn't mean you are intoxicated and it could explain why he smelled like weed. I agree with you that he's at fault, all I was saying was that I've yet to see anything that proves he was intoxicated.

gruez 5y ago

> He'd drunk 750ml of cognac. Cedars noted he was under influence and smelled of marijuana. I think he'd stopped at a weed shop at 11AM or so on day of accident. Seriously? If true, then it would have taken him 30(!) hours to metabolize all that alochol[1]. Depending on how the timeline is (eg. drinks at 10pm, interview at 12pm the next day), it seems very plausible that he's over the legal limit. 750ml * 40% ABV = 300ml of alcohol. The human body can metabolize 10ml of alochol per hour, so that works out to 30 hours to metabolize it all. Even if it was 15 hours since he drank, his ABV would still be way over the limit[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_alcohol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_of_alcohol [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_alcohol_content

dzhiurgis 5y ago
Being drunk obviously makes take bad decisions, but doesn’t make your spine crush any more, nor does wearing helmet would make any difference. Accidents like that happen all the time, regardless of mode of transport.
- xyzzyz 5y ago
  I'd risk hypothesizing that "accidents like that" happen quite a bit more to people who are drunk. This is, after all, why we have laws prohibiting "driving while intoxicated" and not, say, "driving while fabulous".
  - dzhiurgis 5y ago
    Well, driving distracted probably kills more… I really don’t know how law works, but drunk drive prevention should be separate issue from attributing malice. Do we really incarcerate people who get t-boned while hungover?

superfrank 5y ago

> He'd drunk 750ml of cognac. Cedars noted he was under influence and smelled of marijuana Not arguing, but where are you getting that info. None of that was mentioned in the linked article. > I think he'd stopped at a weed shop at 11AM or so on day of accident. That doesn't really mean much. Going to a weed store doesn't mean you are intoxicated and it could explain why he smelled like weed. I agree with you that he's at fault, all I was saying was that I've yet to see anything that proves he was intoxicated.