r/dashcams • u/wronghoIe • 18h ago

Flipping your car at 5 mph

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u/Competitive-Reach287 17h ago

My retired cop brother ran into a number of people like you. He told me of one guy he arrested who blew .26 and was functionally sober. He was going to let him go, but smelled booze on his breath. Passed all the field sobriety tests, but the breathalyzer knew better. Many people would be unconscious at that level. Dude was a long term chronic alcoholic.

Glad you're sober now.

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u/FishAroundFindTrout9 17h ago

The first DUI arrest I made was .32 which would be blackout status for most people. This guy was actually driving pretty damn well and was fairly coherent. I actually only stopped him originally for a headlight that was out. But then saw fresh damage on the car with some wood chips embedded (from a fence I think) and then realized he was drunk when we started talking. He failed the SFSTs but not that badly.

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u/Aurora_Uplinks 10h ago

i bumped into the fence i parked next to a few times.... clumsy idiot more then anything buuut oh well

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u/FishAroundFindTrout9 9h ago

Yeah this was definitely not that. It was definitely an impact with some speed behind it.

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u/Aurora_Uplinks 9h ago

ahh fair enough. not that my issue had any excuse either. (I will say the embarrassing part. twice i have hit a car. both times it was backing up and to the right. one time they backed into me at the same time i backed into them... i think we were both going back and to the right ironically. but i still regret it. the first was just me being emotionally upset, it was after someone died and i heard family say something regarding me that was... kind of left me wanting to leave the house and go for awhile. they were right but it still wasnt something i had expected to hear. helped me me grow though.)

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u/Aurora_Uplinks 10h ago

new driver and i always tried to park as close as i could so their was no space to open the drivers side. so a scrape or two against the fence happened when i misjudged early in my driving

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u/martini1282 17h ago

Thanks. I'm happy every day that cop got me. U was driving perfect but doing 6mph over at 2am. I keep hoping to run into him but no luck