Two Adults Arrested in Teen DUI Fatality
Tragically, hours after having purchased alcohol at a local market, a teenage girl was killed in an alcohol related crash. The driver, also a teen, was arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol.
Also under arrest? Two adults...and they are facing possible criminal charges of furnishing alcohol to a minor. The first is the clerk of the local market who sold alcohol to the teenager. The second is the mother of a friend of the deceased, who accompanied the teen into the market when she purchased the alcohol.
In this area of the state, a program known as TRACE (Target Responsibility for Alcohol Connected Emergencies) has conducted hundreds of alcohol investigations during the past eight years. It is that type of investigation that lead to the determination that these two supplied alcohol to the girl. What were these people thinking? Do they not know about the program? Do they think this was going to be swept under the rug? A young girl has died for goodness sake. How tragic.
My thoughts on the dram shop laws are here.
