Texas Truck Wreck Attorney Blog

There's drinking and driving and then there's drinking and driving. Of course, many believe that too often a person who is convicted of a DWI gets off way too leniently. But the following story takes the cake. A recent news report recounts that a Conroe man was just sentenced to 99 years in prison for his 16th DWI conviction.

Now, the reader surely has to wonder - as do I - how someone could have that many convictions without having already served some serious jail time and also was provided addiction help or something.

But cursory research on the subject turned up little other information except that the driver himself admitted that he was drunk nearly every time he got behind the wheel of his care and he really didn't give much thought to the health and welfare of other drivers on the road.

Video of the arrest shows that the man clearly was unable to execute the moves required in a sobriety test and the only way to describe the tv segment is to call it 'sobering' - for other drivers that is because it would seem that there's no way this guy was ever sober.

It is painful to watch for those of us who take our responsibility of driving safely to heart. It is chilling to realize that there are others on the road that have so little regard for their fellow human beings (children included) that they would show gross negligence and disregard for their own behavior while endangering the rest of us.

And, really, how in the bloody hell did this guy slip through the justice system so many times - and is it nothing short of a miracle that he caused no harm to others?

Finally, the man is eligible for parole in ten to fifteen years - let's just hope those in charge can count to sixteen and they realize that represents the number of times the justice system dropped the ball.