Ramiro E. Granados-Dominguez, Taylor Shelley

Teenage DUI Offenders: Who Licensed the Drink?

Here below I copy two recent reports of the teenage DUI or drunk driving. Both ended up in accidents killing its teenage passengers. I picked the report first one from the Chicago Tribune and the second one from .

My comment on it placed at the end.

Teen gets 4 years in prison for fatal DUI crash

A Carpentersville teenager was sentenced Tuesday to 4 years in prison for a drunken driving crash last year that killed a passenger and injured another.Ramiro E. Granados-Dominguez, 17, pleaded guilty in August to charges of reckless homicide and aggravated driving under the influence. He was sentenced by Cook County Circuit Judge John Scotillo in Rolling Meadows.Granados-Dominguez, a student at Dundee Crown High School, was 16 when he lost control of his car on Dundee Road in Barrington on July 24, 2006, authorities said. Killed in the crash was Saul Jimenez, 21, of Lake in the Hills. Another passenger, Jacquelyn Perez Negron, 19, of Algonquin, was injured.

Perez Negron told police she estimated the car was going 100 m.p.h. as the three were returning from a late night party in Palatine. Authorities said Granados-Dominguez had a blood-alcohol level of 0.116. The limit for adults is 0.08.

In court, Granados-Dominguez apologized to the families of the victims and said he did not intend to hurt anybody.

Horry Teen to Face DUI Charge

An Horry County teenager will be charged with felony DUI for an accident that killed another teen.

Florence County Solicitor, Ed Clements said his team is reviewing Highway Patrol's investigation of an accident that happened in July.16-year-old Kayla Bennett died in the crash.Clements said he's preparing the indictment for the driver, 16-year-old Taylor Shelley.Florence County adopted this case two weeks ago because of conflicts in Horry County.

Shelley's uncle Gary Shelley was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor after officials say he provided alcohol to his niece.


It is the same story all over again and again! Even though the report is very sketchy but you can make it out! Young teenage friends meet together. They manage to get alcohol drinks somewhere and get drunk. Thereafter find a need for driving, among other things to reach them home. Calling designated driver? First of all they are underage prohibited to drink at all! Any how they think they can also pull it out as they managed to get the drink! They all get into that vehicle for the designated ride. But some one among them has to drive. Unfortunately that ones driving ends up in a serious crash fatally injuring, tragically killing one or more.

Now its entire blame falls on the driver having drunk. But the teenagers not supposed to drink. So who supplied the alcohol drinks the source of the to this underage persons? The concerned and affected people link its source to the alcohol drink provider (or the pub owners). They should be should be also made partly if not fully responsible and should be punished for their share in causing such DUI accidents.

However no one cares to question about its most crucial link its main source that supplies and licenses these of alcohol drinks for the public consumption that could effortlessly or unwittingly turn anyone into such a drunk in the first place?

The authorities don’t seems to understand that so far as these high alcohol content beverages are made available for the public consumption , one can not prevent these teenagers from obtaining it by hook or crook and drinking it as much as they like. They get it any way no matter what all restriction you place on them! The truth is that these alcohol drinks not only dangerous to the underage people it is potentially dangerous to all ages whoever drinks them!

These high alcohol drinks that has been licensed and sold under the banner of Standard Alcohol Drinks (SADs)potentially cause excessive alcohol consumption! They casually call it getting intoxicated or drunk! I call it excessive alcohol poisoning due to the consumption of high alcohol content drinks. It mainly impairs the person’s brain or mind so much so that they themselves do not clearly know or misjudge it. It provokes them inadvertently to commit suicidal acts, more so when they get into driving thus putting themselves and others life at extreme risk even death that they (or any one) normally don’t want to do when not that much drunk or under the influence or intoxicated!

However the most important thing to know in this matter of alcohol drinks is that; there are no research evidences that proves that all alcohol drinks cause the DUI accidents. But at the same time those research evidences overwhelmingly point out that it is mainly those high-alcohol content drinks (most popular among is the beer containing around 5% alcohol) cause almost all driving accidents.

Following this research evidence, if the alcohol authorities had licensed only the alcohol (say having around 2% or less) low drinks even if those underage people like Ramiro E. Granados-Dominguez, Taylor Shelley obtained those drinks, most probably it would not have made them such a drunk responsible for the accident.

To know more on this subject matter read the following most important papers in my blog WebPages:
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/alcohol-research-misconduct-cause-drunk.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/standard-alcohol-drinks-sads-cause.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/standard-alcohol-drinks-sads-licensing.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/alcohol-prohibition-mission-failure.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/alcoholics-should-ask-compensation.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/drunk-driving-dui-facts-hidden-from.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/drunk-drivers-have-chance-to-fight-back.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/alcohol-drinking-is-it-matter-of-choice.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/drunk-drivers-alcohol-vulnerable.html
http://alcohol-research-misconduct.blogspot.com/2007/10/why-driving-with-high-bac-is-wrong.html

Vallab
Alcoholics Curewell.