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we are mourning a second victim. ” The children of Goldstream Road, in Fairbanks, created this poster after the death of 13-year-old Saul Stutz. 106
The Story of “Thank God for the Saul Stutz 107 A DUI fatality. Sounds pretty impersonal, doesn’t it. Just another DUI statistic. Yeah? Well, here’s the rest of the story. A 61-year-old, single man is prone to heavy drinking in bars with work buddies and others, often beginning after afternoon union calls. He often makes the rounds to several bars, en route to his home outside of town. No priors, but has probably done it, without a mishap, hundreds of times before. His own testimony corroborates this, and he does it this day. A final single drink at his third stop, an out-of-town establishment a few miles from home. Then, homeward bound, westerly, fatefully, in his trusty old truck. A drunk driver? Yes, a very drunk driver. BAC? .237! Nearly three times the legal limit. Ten-plus drinks if consumed in an hour – many more if over a few hours. Or, in drinking vernacular, “ a coupla beers.” A couple of neighborhood boys – a thirteenyear-old boy and his nine-year-old brother – are riding their bikes, heading in the same direction, well off the side of the road. A neighbor, a Good Samaritan, eastbound, passes the boys, then sees the drunk driver bearing down in his truck. Seconds later, an uneasy feeling – he checks his rearview mirror, and observes the old truck climbing back onto the road from the roadway sideslope – he sees only one boy. He whirls around, fearing the worst. The old truck barrels on, maybe even speeds up. The older boy lies crumpled on the ground, fatally injured, his bicycle crushed. The younger boy, narrowly missed. Help comes from across the road, so the Good Samaritan goes on the chase, the old truck already out of sight. High speeds, then higher yet. Finally, the old truck, in sight. A deft maneuver, the old truck forced to a stop. The drunk driver, caught by the neighbor, agrees to drive back to the scene of the crime. Instead, he does a 360 and heads for home. The neighbor follows him to his home, parking crossways to block the exit. Again, the neighbor confronts the man. This time the man pulls a wad of cash from his pocket. He offers it, twice, suggesting “ awww, just forget about From 1980 through 2009 APD has investigated 589 fatal collisions which resulted in 637 deaths. Of those 589 collisions, alcohol was a factor in 332 or 56.4% of them, either in the victim, the driver who caused the accident or both. (Municipality of Anchorage)
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