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To begin with, I offer my sympathy to Ryan Dunn’s family and friends, and to those of Zachary Hartwell, who also died in the crash. I mean that sincerely. It is tragic to lose a loved one. I also regret that my tweet about the event was considered cruel. It was not intended as cruel. It was intended as true.
…I don’t know what happened in this case, and I was probably too quick to tweet. That was unseemly. I do know that nobody has any business driving on a public highway at 110 mph, as some estimated — or fast enough, anyway, to leave a highway and fly through 40 yards of trees before crashing. That is especially true if the driver has had three shots and three beers. Two people were killed. What if the car had crashed into another car?
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Film critic and writer ROGER EBERT, responding to the backlash against his “Friends don’t let jackasses drive drunk” Tweet about Ryan Dunn. Dunn and a passenger were killed after Dunn’s car, driven at speeds around 130-140 mph at the time, veered off a Pennsylvania highway and into a tree.
Dunn’s blood alcohol level at the time of the crash? 0.196 — more than twice Pennsylvania’s legal limit.
Don’t drink and drive.
(links via the Chicago Sun-Times and the LA Times)
