Sunday, October 17, 2021

More on Wearing Seat Belts and Drunk Drivers

[Re: “Guess the Ethnicity: Woman Dies When She is Ejected from a Car in a Crash.”]

By Eahilf
Sunday, October 17, 2021 at 1:53:00 P.M. EDT

“Mexicans are known to not wear seat belts.”

It says they were/their car was hit (by a pickup) when backing out of a driveway (?), so I guess I can cut them a little slack about not having their seatbelts fastened yet:

Investigators said the victims — identified as two women — were backing out of a residential driveway about 11:15 p.m. Saturday in the 3300 block of FM 1942.

Perhaps this is just as relevant to the Mexicans angle:

“The pickup truck driver was taken to Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital, where a DWI investigation is taking place,” Beaty said.

Anecdotally, i.e., just looking at news reports, DWI is a big problem among Hispanics.

link

Data are not available at the national level because Hispanic criminals are almost always classed as “white.” California, however, treats Hispanics as a separate category, and state records show that Hispanics are 24.4 percent more likely than whites to be arrested for drunk driving. Blacks are 66 percent more likely.


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

MEXICANS AND DRINKING(THEY LIKE IT).

You just might be a Mexican,if your blood alcohol level is 0.10 by noon,0.20 by 6pm and 0.30 by midnight.

You just might be a Mexican,if you think car insurance is optional.

You just might be a Mexican,if you think the speed limit is determined by adding the maximum speed(70) and minimum speed(45) shown on traffic signs--TOGETHER.

You just might be a Mexican,if you think a red light is for the sole purpose of guzzling down a couple Corona Lights.

You just might be a Mexican,if that 80 pound garbage bag full of returnable beer bottles in your trunk,was accumulated in only one week.

You might be a Mexican,if your car's backfire can't be distinguished from your own.


You might be a Mexican(though you could be black),if you're unable to read and comprehend this post.

--GRA

Anonymous said...

TWO HUNDRED DOLLAR A BARREL OIL BY END OF YEAR?

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/wild-market-traders-are-rapidly-increasing-bets-200-oil

GRA:Zerohedge is known to go to extremes on predictions--$125-150 though,would probably throw us into a recession--$200?That price would definitely do it.

A winter of discontent is coming.

--GRA

eahilf said...

Connecticut woman killed in Queens crash, husband suspected of drunk driving

21 y/o male driver (who was 'taken into custody on suspicion of driving while intoxicated'), 22 y/o woman in back seat not wearing a seatbelt dies, 3 y/o survives.

Her name has not been released pending family notification.

Something tells me this 'Connecticut woman' isn't very Connecticut-y.