ROME - A man high on marijuana and driving without a licence plowed head-on into a team of amateur cycle racers in southern Italy on Sunday, killing seven and injuring several others, police said.The dead were men ranging in age from 35 to 58, practising on a road in the southern region of Calabria.Two other members of the local amateur racing team were seriously injured.The driver, a Moroccan immigrant, was arrested and charged with multiple manslaughter.Police said blood tests showed the man, who was himself hospitalized for injuries, was under the influence of marijuana. They said he was driving illegally because his licence had been withdrawn six months ago for dangerous driving.A boy who was in the car with him was also injured.Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Driver+high+kills+cyclists+Italian+police/3931143/story.html#ixzz17R3bpLEj
Maybe next time they'll confiscate the car...as they should have in the first place.
Quote from: hcrv on December 07, 2010, 09:22:57 amMaybe next time they'll confiscate the car...as they should have in the first place.Sadly that won't stop some people either.