DWI Hit Parade!

From Winston-Salem Journal
Everyone knew him as “Babe.”
And every day in his wheelchair, Babe, or Vernon Tyrone Thompson, independently went from his apartment complex on Chestnut Plains Court in northeastern Winston-Salem to the AZ Patterson Grocery store about a block away to talk with friends and score a cigarette.
“Everything was good about him,” said Hassan El Manadely, the store manager. “He was friendly to everybody.”
Saturday 9:25 p.m., Thompson died near the corner of 14th Street and Patterson Avenue, hit head-on by a car while heading home on 14th Street in his wheelchair from the grocery store, relatives said. There is no sidewalk on the short stretch of road that Thompson used daily.  He was 57. The driver, James E. Williams, didn’t stop, city police ….MORE

From News Herald
PANAMA CITY BEACH — An off-duty Panama City Beach Police officer was arrested Thursday on a charge of driving under the influence, according to authorities.
Arrested in the early morning hours Thursday was David Lee Walker, 29. ….MORE

From Orange County Register
FULLERTON A 23-year-old man is in custody after he lost control of his car early today, resulting in the death of his female passenger, police said.
The passenger was identified as Kelly Pham, 21, of La Mirada, according to a coroner’s press release.
Fullerton Police Department Sergeant Andrew Goodrich said the driver, Justin Drake, was arrested on suspicion of felony driving under the influence…..MORE

Kelly Pham had just been accepted into law school….but she got into the car with Justin Drake and bought her ticket to her own funeral