Bill would allow 12-hour impound for DUI vehicles
Law enforcement officials and victims of drunk-driving crashes were in Olympia on Thursday urging lawmakers to pass a measure aimed at keeping drunks from getting back in their cars.
OLYMPIA, Wash. — Hailey Huntley still chokes up when she recalls the crash that nearly took her life.
“Three years ago I was hit by a drunk driver,” she said during testimony in Olympia on Thursday.
Huntley was hit by a woman who had been arrested earlier for drinking and driving, but the woman wasn’t jailed and the car wasn’t impounded.
“As soon as she got home she went directly back to that car and began driving again, and that’s when she hit me,” Huntley said.
The crash broke Huntley’s pelvis, a leg and knee, crushed her foot and collapsed both of her lungs.
“It took me almost a year to learn to walk again, and I just don’t want to see this happen to anybody else.”
She was at the state Capitol to urge lawmakers to pass a measure aimed at keeping drunks from getting back in their cars.
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Bill would allow 12-hour impound for DUI vehicles (KOMO Seattle)
