r/dashcams • u/wronghoIe • 18h ago

Flipping your car at 5 mph

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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