baseball33
Junior Member
I am a California resident.
I was in an accident a couple of months back that totalled my car. I was drinking and given field sobrieity tests along with a breathalizer test. I blew a .18, which is obviously well over the legal limit. This is a night I regret and plan on accepting all responsibility for that night.
When I got into my accident it is on a street (residential) that comes to a T-shaped (where I dead-end and have to either go right or left. I had the accident 2 blocks from my house. This street has apartments along it so the entire street is filled with all the overflow parking from the apartments. When you come to the T in the road it also is filled with parked cars. I hit a parked car about 30 feet from the T. I scraped the entire right side of my car and it was still operable. I thought I would pull over to the next spot on the street instead of blocking the entire road. I drove about a block before I realized there was no place to pull over so I mad a U-turn at another T-shaped intersection. At this point a man blocked me in and grabbed my keys from my car and claimed I was running from the scene.
When the police arrived the office asked me, "After you were drinking where were you heading?" I told her, "My house." In the police report she said I was heading to my house after I hit the car.
I was charged with:
Driving while under the influence of drugs/alcohol
Driving with a BAC of .18
Hit and Run accident
I plan on pleading guilty to the first 2 since I was guilty of those things and accept that. I plan to plead not guilty to hit and run.
I have been going to AA and the DUI classes for 2 months (which is well before I was even told of my court date) on my own without the court ordering it. This is my first run-in with the law besides 2 speeding tickets.
I am worried I might get jail time. If I am charged with the hit and run, what are the usual punishments? This is really worrying me.
I was in an accident a couple of months back that totalled my car. I was drinking and given field sobrieity tests along with a breathalizer test. I blew a .18, which is obviously well over the legal limit. This is a night I regret and plan on accepting all responsibility for that night.
When I got into my accident it is on a street (residential) that comes to a T-shaped (where I dead-end and have to either go right or left. I had the accident 2 blocks from my house. This street has apartments along it so the entire street is filled with all the overflow parking from the apartments. When you come to the T in the road it also is filled with parked cars. I hit a parked car about 30 feet from the T. I scraped the entire right side of my car and it was still operable. I thought I would pull over to the next spot on the street instead of blocking the entire road. I drove about a block before I realized there was no place to pull over so I mad a U-turn at another T-shaped intersection. At this point a man blocked me in and grabbed my keys from my car and claimed I was running from the scene.
When the police arrived the office asked me, "After you were drinking where were you heading?" I told her, "My house." In the police report she said I was heading to my house after I hit the car.
I was charged with:
Driving while under the influence of drugs/alcohol
Driving with a BAC of .18
Hit and Run accident
I plan on pleading guilty to the first 2 since I was guilty of those things and accept that. I plan to plead not guilty to hit and run.
I have been going to AA and the DUI classes for 2 months (which is well before I was even told of my court date) on my own without the court ordering it. This is my first run-in with the law besides 2 speeding tickets.
I am worried I might get jail time. If I am charged with the hit and run, what are the usual punishments? This is really worrying me.