Steven Schwally, the former marine who plowed his vehicle through a nail salon killing four says behind bars, "his goose is cooked." Shocking video released of the moments leading up to a devastating crash that claimed four lives at a nail salon on Long Island. The horrific footage appears to show the ex-marine visibly disheveled, buying liquor, before getting behind the wheel of his SUV and allegedly turning his vehicle into a deadly battering ram.
Stephen Schwally is seen on video speeding through a parking lot at close to 80-miles-per-hour, almost hitting pedestrians in a crosswalk before charging at full-speed into the Hawaii Nail & Spa. The video appears to show no deceleration from Schwally's vehicle, and the sound of screams can be heard from the salon as customers are seen running out of other businesses to see what is happening.
Inside Hawaii Nail & Salon, four people are dead, 9 others injured, some very seriously. One of those killed is NYPD Officer, Emilia Rennhack. The 30-year-old was assigned to the 102nd precinct in Queens where her husband, Carl Rennhack, is a detective. The Rennhacks were a month away from celebrating their one-year anniversary. Emilia Rennhack was getting her nails done for a friend's upcoming wedding.
41-year-old Yan Xu, and 50-year-old Meizi Zhang both worked at Hawaii Nail & Salon and were also killed in the crash. Yan Xu's family is seeking help in a fundraiser on GoFundMe to raise money for the care of her elderly father and her 12-year-old son, who has polio.
Kenny Chen, the manager of Hawaii Nail & Salon is among the 4 killed when the SUV crashed through the salon at nearly 80 miles per hour. Chen's wife was also at the salon at the time, and she is critically injured. She has already had one surgery with more to come, doctors say her recovery will take at least two years. The Chen's have two children, ages ten and five, and with their father dead and the mother facing multiple surgeries and years of recovery, a GoFundMe is set up by a nephew who says with the salon their only source of income, with Kenny Chen dead and his wife critically injured, they don't know where to turn for help.
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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace talk about self centered. The alleged drunk driver who kills four people at a nel salon speaks out after the horrific crash, and what does he say? I'm sick with guilt. I feel horrible. I want to speak to the families of my victims. I want to donate any money I have to college funds and funeral expenses. Oh hg lno. The man accused of drunkenly plowing into a Long Island nel salon at seventy eight mph, killing four, including an off duty nyp D cop. She'd only been married one year. What does he say? Quote it's over for me. What else does he say? My goose is cooked? What else does he say? I don't like to think about it. I bet he doesn't. What more do we know about a crash? A horrible crash, deadly four times over, caused by former marine Stephen Schwally. Now he's trying to use being a marine in the past as a defense. I doubt the Marines are going to look very kindly on him shrouding himself in the marine mystique as a defense for killing four people. All but back to him, what happened? You know, so often at trials I would have defense attorneys actually say to a jury, where's the video. They can't prove this happened. They can't prove that, let's just say this confession ever happened. They can't prove the cops didn't beat the guy into a confession. But guess what. There is video? What you what exactly happened?
Listen shocking video released of the moments leading up to a devastating crash that claimed four lives at a nail salon on Long Island. The horrific footage appears to show the X Marine visibly disheveled buying liquor before getting behind the wheel of his suv and allegedly turning his vehicle into a deadly battering ram.
The alleged killer, as a matter of fact, as far as I can tell, he's actually wobbling as he walks into the liquor store, this before plowing through a glass window, killing four injuring nine others. The crash is well, everybody running out onto the sidewalk to see what happened. Ps, it's my understanding. To Lauren Conlin, joining US investigative reporter and host of Primetime Crime on YouTube. It's my understanding. It's estimated he was going seventy eight miles an hour in a parking lot.
You're correct, Nancy, he was going seventy eight miles per hour when he crashed clean through the Hawaii nail salon, killing four people and injuring nine others, including a twelve year old child.
Terrifying new footage showing a drunk ex marine narrowly missing pedestrians on the sidewalk before plowing through a glass window, killing four, including a lady cop a lady cop off duty. Joining me An All Star panel to make sense of what we know right now, but.
First listen inside Hawaiian nail and spa. Four people are dead, nine others injured, some very seriously. One of those killed is NYPD officer Amelia Renneck. The thirty year old was assigned to the one hundred and second Precinct in Queens, where her husband, Karl Rennick, is a detective. The renex were a month away from celebrating their one year anniversary. Amelia Rennick was getting her nails done for a friend's upcoming wedding, again joining me.
An All Star panel, but first again to Lauren Colin joining us if that's again the reporter, Lauren, what happened?
The ex unemployed marine hit that liquor store at eleven AM and he bought two pints of Long Island iced tea. And this was after he drank eighteen beers the night before. This is what he told law enforcement after the fact. So around four forty pm is when you see that video footage of him speeding through that strip Mall parking lot, which is a large parking lot, and he went seventy eight miles per hour and went clean through through that mail salon, actually dragging the four victims underneath his.
Cart, dragging them inside and nail salon and SYI. A Long Island iced tea is known for high alcohol content, made with vodka, tequila, gin rum, Triple Sick, and lemon jeeves vodka, tequila, gin rum and triple Sick. Okay um. It's usually topped off with a refreshing hint of cola and complimentary spirits deliciously intermingled. Of course I was reading that part deliciously intermingled. Okay, you know what this guy did? You say, two pints? Two pints of Long Island Iced tea. I did say that two pints.
They're three hundred and seventy five milliliters, so that's two pints.
Joining me Erica in the MAD National Ambassador Mad Mothers Against Driving Erica, does it ever end? You know, Nancy, that is a great question.
We are facing a public health and safety crisis on our roadways today like never before. But before I continue to address that on behalf of MAD, I want to send our deepest condolences and support to the victims that have been affected by this senseless, violent, one hundred percent preventable crime. You know, there are so many parts of this story that remind me of what happened to myself when my parents were killed in October of twenty sixteen. You know, there is a whole misconception that these drunk driving crashes happen after a night of binging in a bar. I could tell you that they're happening every thirty nine seconds in this country.
That's astounding to me.
And my parents' killer drank a bottle of Jack Daniels at home, got in her vehicle, drove to a bar, had two Vodkas, two buybacks. When she stumbled out of the bar and drove on a residential area going sixty nine miles per hour, hit my parents dead on and threw them sixty feet into a wooded area. Like this case, there was also pedestrians on the street that had to run out of the way or he would have hit them as well.
She would have hit them as well.
And sadly, probably most sadly, this woman was on her way to pick up her three, five and seven year old children, And there is no doubt in my mind that my parents were the ones that stopped them from dying. She hit them, my parents before she got to her children, or I am sure her children would be alive today.
You know Eric Kalynn, the mad national ambassador, very often and I've seen this happen over and over and over. Now this is anecdotal, in other words, an anecdote a story. I don't have a statistic to back it up. Probably be too hard to gather this type of statistic. A lot of people wouldn't want to admit to it. But I watched many many ten years and before that three years is a fed in a very very highly concentrated area where we would have literally thousands of cases a year each prosecutor. Vehicular homicides, which they're euphemistically called drunk driving murders, is what I call them. But vehicular hobicides are often plaid down. You don't get life behind bars for a vehicular homicide that doesn't happen. Why because to me, this is a drunk driving murder. People argue, well, they were drunk, but I didn't know what they were doing. B s. You know, two pints of Long Island tea, you know that, And make sure I don't even know what I said, vodka jin triple sick. You know what you're doing. You know when you get your car key out, you know when you crank the car up, you know when you put it in reverse and put it in drive and go out on the road. You know that each one, each one of those acts shows intent, intent to drive drunk. Absolutely. Why don't we earbrush it?
You know, it's a great question because it is a deliberate decision.
To get behind a wheel.
And you know, I remember my father teaching me how to drive and saying to me, Erica, you're getting into a four thousand pound weapon. This vehicle going into the nail salon. It's horrifying.
It is.
It causes the most devastating consequences to everyone life that's affected by this, And you know, the one thing that you could never get over. You can never get over the fact that they all should still be here. This is not a natural death and it's one hundred percent preventable. That's why it's going to take all of us together as a community to make sure that we are consciously making an effort to put it into impaired driving.
I mean, Eric Kalynn, you're the mad national ambassador. When you think about so many of the drunk driving murder victims that you have studied, or you think about your parents, they are no less dead because their killer was completely drunk at the time they died. Just I feel that drunk drivers that commit homicides are treated differently. They're plaid down. And so it's just the lady that you're talking about that killed your parents. She sounds like a young mom, and it's really a wolf in sheep's clothing, because you see this soccer mom walking in with her children coming into court and it's hard to believe she killed two people.
And for that, Nancy, she got four to twelve years sentencing for killing two people and was out in three. And my problem with that is they come back out of jail and they recommit the same crimes over and over and over again, so we get into a vicious cycle. I just want to comment on this case if I can too, because you know, very rarely, and I think you mentioned this to Nancy, very rarely do we see a murder charge adhere, and the grand jury's decision to indict on murder charges sends an extremely powerful message that drunk driving is a violent crime and it's not going to be tolerated anymore. Two out of three people are effected by drunk driving in their lifetimes. We have the tools to stop this, and we must stop it, because every day I get notices about more and more victims, and I know their struggle is going to be life long for the families and those that love these people that have that pass through this horrific crime, and even if they didn't pass, they have horrific life altering injuries that last a lifetime. So this is a crisis on our roadways right now, and it's going to take all of us to stop it.
In the last days, horrifying new video emerging of the moments leading up to this devastating crash. Now look at this. You see the alleged purp, Stephen Schwally, visibly disheveled, buying more alcohol at a local liquor store before he goes on a deadly rampage. Lauren Colin, is my understanding that this was his second trip in one day to the liquor store.
Correct, this was his second trip in one day. You can see at the timestamp it's eleven o'clock at that time, and.
He returns crime stories with Nancy Grace. Me me, me, me, me, me, me, me me and me. Yes, that's all Schwally is thinking about. Now he's sobered up in sitting behind bars, and what does he say? It's over for me. My goose is cooked. All he does is talk about himself. This guy reportedly guzzles several bottles of Montebello Long Island iced tea and more before he hits the gas and plows through a nail salon. Now he's talking about his goose is cooked. It's hard for me to take in when I think about the families devastated by him driving drunk, not just drunk over double the legal limit. He's even wobbling. He can't even stand up straight when he goes for his second visit to the liquor store in one day.
What exactly happened Listen making his regular liquor store purchase of two bottles of forty two proof Long Island Tea, Steven Schwally spends the next five hours drinking his Long Island Tea and driving around Suffoc County in his twenty twenty Chevy Traverse. At four thirty two pm, Shwally arrives back where he started at Sands liquor store. Only this time he comes barreling through an intersection, running a red light at a high rate of speed, going airborne, speeding through the parking lot, navigating an empty parking spot, hitting a curb, and slamming into the front window of Hawaii Nail and Spa next door to sand Slicker's Good Gravy.
That was our friend. Dave Mac at crimeonline dot Com, Hold on just a moment. I've got to dissect each sentence, because each sentence is very It's highly probitive. In other words, it proves something at trial. H Joining me is ben powers high profile criminal defense attorney, and you can find them online at legalpowers dot com, but first to Joseph Trembley, principal engineer accident of reconstructionist at VERA Tech Consulting Engineering Veritecheng dot com Vera Tech. Joseph Trembley, thank you for being with us. Joe, can we analyze what I just heard? Okay? Making his regular liquor store purchase of two bottles of forty two proof Long Island iced tea. Had to look that up. You know I'm gonna each oler. Joe Shwally spends the next five hours drinking the Long Island tea and driving around, riving around Suffolk County. Why it is Chevy Traverse. Four point thirty two pm, he arrives back where he started at the liquor store, this time barreling through an intersection, running a red light at we think seventy eight mph, going airborne, speeding through the parking lot, navigating an empty parking spot, hitting the curb that should have slowed him down if I stopped him, but no. He slams through the front window of Hawaii Nail and Spa, right next door to the liquor store. Stance liquor store. Didn't they notice he had already come in once and he was wobbling when he walked in. Okay, that's a whole nother question for Ben Powers to Joe Trembley analyze what forensic evidence exists to support the scenario I just laid out.
Thanks for pointing that out. We have a couple of pieces of evidence here that were probably very important to the responding officers in this case. The first is all of the footage that we have of this driver driving through this parking lot prior to crossing the road and then entering into the nail seal on where the accident actually occurred. The second piece of information that was probably even more important for their investigation was the information that was taken from the vehicle's black box. Now, that information typically includes speed of the vehicle prior to impact. Believe it or not, it can record usually around five seconds of impact related speed data prior to impact. And then also what's also very important here is any sort of driver input. So a lot of times that black box data can include whether or not the driver was applying the accelerator pedal and whether or not the driver was steering in any sort of way. And I believe what was taken from that data was that there was an accelerator pedal application all the way up to impact. There was no actual attempt for any sort of breaking maneuver prior to entering the nail salon. And one other thing I wanted to point out here that's really kind of suspect as to this driver's inputs was the fact that he was steering as he was driving through this parking lot before impact, and that suggests to me that he was actually cognizant and aware of his surroundings.
I've got to dissect what you're saying. You're saying he is steering as he's driving. You know what, that's actually really important. Holds your thoughts show to Binpowers joining me Veteran, a lawyer at legalpowers dot com. Been Many argue that voluntary consumption of drugs or alcohol somehow lessons your degree of culpability. Know under our law, voluntary use of drugs or alcohol, it's not a defense. Now, some may argue he didn't know what he was doing. He knew enough. As Joe Trembley from Veritech, who has reconstructed countless crashes and other accidents, this isn't an accident. This is a crash. He says the defendant knew enough, was cognizant enough to steer, he knew his way back to the liquor store, that's where he's going. That would suggest he was not commentosed, He wasn't passed out behind the wheel, which adds to my argument of intent.
So with regard to this case specifically, it's a little unique in the sense of you do have a second degree murder charge included with the vehicular homicide charges and the other assorted assault charges for the pedestrians that he dodged, for the other individuals that were in the spa that were not killed, and so it is different, but it is you know, with the way that he's navigating the road, he's swerving around cars, he's barely missing cars, he's dodging pedestrians, is across the crosswalk, and then he does, unfortunately, thread the needle and goes right into the only empty parking spot at the SPA parking lot, which is what causes him to go into the building. I think that's what makes this a second degree murder case, or why the prosecutor went with that charge. I don't think it's because it's a dui. I think the dui aspect of the case is really just the final nail in his coffin, because drunk or not, with the type of driving he was exhibiting and the speeds he was going, that is arguably a second degree murder case.
You use the phraseology he could thread the needle. What did you mean by that?
Well, I mean is the type of control that took to go into the only empty parking spot, Because if he doesn't hit that empty parking spot, he either hits the white van to his left, or he hits the red looks like a Corolla to his right, he hits.
Either of those vehicles.
None of this happens, but he's able to, at seventy eight miles an hour, go into the only empty parking spot at the parking lot. So clearly, if I was the prosecutor, I would be arguing that he was in control because that's going to help make it a second degree murder case for the prosecutor. Now, if I'm on the defense side, I'm leaning on the fact that this is a very unfortunate dui that had tragic consequences, because vehicular homicide, if it's a DUI, is substantially consequences and risks for mister Shwally and the consequences of a second degree murder conviction. I don't know enough about mister Shwally, his body mechanics, the way he carries himself. I do see the argument with him making the statement they had eighteen beers that day that could lean towards He's already impaired when we see him in this video. Or he could just be an old marine veteran and that's just kind of how he shuffles around in life.
I haven't even gotten to tell you about who the four murdered victims are. The owner of the salon, he's a father, a husband, and his wife has horrible injuries. She is going to have multiple surgeries to look forward to. The off duty lady cop, and the others just trying to make a living at the nail salon when this guy Swally literally comes plowing through the nail salon window, killing four. Let me go to Erica Lynn joining us mad national Ambassador Erica. These people, several of them running out clutching their bags, multiple bags of liquor. They don't go help, They run to their car. I just wondered, why did they not want to speak to cops and if so, why, I honestly think they were in shock.
I mean, you have to understand that these crashes happened so quickly and so intensely that anybody surrounding them is going to be in a state of shock to see a seventy you know a vehicle go into a nail salon at such a high speed.
You know.
And the other thing is they may not have thought it was uh, you know. I don't want to use the word unintentional, because we have defined that this is intentional because you got behind a wheel. But they may have thought it was some kind of act of terrorism or something like that. Yeah, I mean, there are many reasons why people react the way they do when they're in shop.
Yeah, you're right, and you.
Know, and I believe that's the case with these innocent bystanders.
Yeah, you know what, you could be right. My line producer insists that it's because they all have alcohol in their breast and they don't want cops to find out. I tend to believe you are correct. The one guy was not clutching liquor. The other people were, and they made a run for it. They wanted to get away from that scene as fast as they could listen to this.
The twenty twenty Chevrolet re Verse, being driven by Stephen Schwally, crashes through the front window of Hawaii Nail and Spot at about seventy eight miles per hour. Four people are dragged under the vehicle, while nine others are thrown in what is described as a violent explosion that somebody's flying everywhere. The suv has finally stopped when it crashes into the back of the store.
Two. Joseph Trimbley, Principal engineer exer reconstructionist at Verite. How do I know? How can I prove he was going seventy eight miles an hour? And you'd have thought that bumping over that curve would have slowed him down, but it didn't.
You know, that's a great point. The speed is something that they probably got from the black box data of the vehicle. Again, there's a couple of data points that they can go off of there. And first off, we have what appears to be a high rate of speed as he crosses the road, so much so that he actually goes airborne and clears the curb on the opposite side of the road. But the speed itself really there's no way to do an accurate reconstruction based on the building damage. Unfortunately, there's just too much, too much glass and bricks and doors and other objects that really don't slow down on the vehicle much at all. And so for that reason, they're probably going off of that black box data.
And there's certainly no skin marks. That's something you often look for to determine what really happened. Not a single skid mark as far as I know.
What about that, Joe, if you didn't have this, this surveillance camera footage, what you could say, what you could suggest right there is that because we have no skid marks, we have no breaking and he's just entering this building at at whatever speed he was going with no break inputs at all.
That means he's making no attempt to stop. He's not really steering away from the building in any way. He is, as we said, he's threading the needle between two other vehicles, which again that shows that he probably was cognizant and able to steer even though he's not breaking.
This is not the first time Stephen Schwally has been charged with driving well intoxicated. In twenty thirty, team Shwally slammed into a mailbox and Dix Hills and drove off. Police later found him passed out a sleep behind the wheel of his car. Charged with DUI and leaving the scene of an accident. Shwally pleaded guilty and was sentenced to three years probation. Shwally's brother, Edwards, says Shwally has more than one prior DUI, claiming to have driven his brother to probation while he refused to take a breathalyzer. In twenty ten or eleven.
National Ambassador for a Mother's Dad's Drunk Driving mad is joining us Erica Lynn Erica. Isn't that just so typical of vehicular homicide, as I say, drunk driving murders. If you have someone that has committed a vehicular homicide and you check carefully, you will find out that they have had multiple DUIs in this one, including leaving the scene.
Yeah, that's very, very true, Nancy. There is a very much a lack of.
A lack of.
Commitment to their acts, which is horrifying. That's number one. But the amount of times that they drive drunk before they get caught is average of eighty times.
Just think of that.
Statistic eighty times before somebody is caught.
I've got to let that sink in.
It takes an average of eighty times a person drives drunk before they get caught with a DWI, eighty.
Times before they're finally caught with a DUI. Much less of vehicular homicide guys as promised special guests joining us doctor Kendall Crown's cheap medical examiner Terran County. That's fort worth, never lack of business, esteemed lecturer at the Burnett School of Medicine at TCU Dodgor Kendall Crowns. We haven't even gotten to talk about the victims. Listen.
Forty one year old Yangzou and fifty year old Mazie Jang both worked at Hawaiian Nalen Spa and both were killed in the crash. Yanzoo's family is seeking for help in a fundraiser on go fund me to raise money for the care of her elderly father and her twelve year old son who has polio. Relatives are reminding people that with the salon destroyed and their loved ones killed or injured, these families will be struggling for some time to come.
Dear Lord, in heaven, one parent dad, the other injured. The child has polio and more.
Kenny Chen, the manager of Hawaii Nail and Spies, among the four killed when the suv crashes through the salon in nearly eighty miles an hour. Chen's wife is also at the salon at the time. She's critically injured. She's already had one surgery with more to come. Doctor say her recovery will take at least two years. The Chen's have two children, ages ten and five, and with their father dead and their mother facing multiple surgery and years of recovery, go fund me is set up by a nephew who says, with the salon their only source of income, Kenny Chen dead, his wife critically injured, they don't know where to turn for help.
To doctor Kendall Crowns, I'm so relieved that you are so calm, methodical and impartial dejective when you perform these autopsies, because when I think about the dad, did the mom facing all these surgeries, and they had this little boy to raise. The other person has a child, had a child with polio for Pete's sake, and now that parent is gone. Doctor Kendle crowns. You heard that the bodies actually flew through the air. Describe what happened to the human body when this guy plowed into that nail salon.
So, with a vehicle going in at that high rate of speed, when they hit the individuals, the speed will transfer into the bodies and then they will continue flying. After that, after the car stops. What you'll see internally is you'll see a lot of fractured bones. The organs will actually explode or be lacerated by the force of the car if it hits them at the right angle. You'll see limbs torn off and even decapitations as well. So, usually high rates the speed from vehicles hitting the body, there's a tremendous amount of damage done to the body that even the body can be severed in half.
You know, as I'm listening to you describe what has happened to the bodies, there is a stark dichotomy a comparison to this. Listen, we just had the bar day separation party, you know, not long both were both singing and dreaming together with for a video and then with such a happy family. No, that is the brother of kimy Chin Stephen speaking host some of our friends and on Twitter at w I N N we just had a birthday celebration party. We were both singing and dreaming together. We record a video and have such a happy family. Now it's all gone. It's all gone, and the brother breaks down weeping, weeping, and there's so much more to Doctor Kendall Crowns, How do you keep your head on straight when you hear the victims' families grow, men crying over what has happened? And the last thing I want to hear is anyone defending this guy claiming, well he's the next marine. Well, I doubt the Marines are proud of this moment, so don't use them to shroud what you have done, Doctor Kendall Crowns. Could how long could these victims have lived after being plowed down by this guy to experience the fear and the pain of what happened.
It's if they have crushing entries of the head or their you know, spinal core gets severed, they may die quite rapidly or on pun impact. If they have an injury that doesn't necessarily involve their head, they could survive for a matter of minutes or even longer. If they are crushed underneath the vehicle and are just kind of pinned in place with not their chest or like their pelvic region. They could be living underneath that vehicle for several minutes until they either bleed out or die from asphyxiation being crushed.
Crime stores with Nancy Grace quote, my goose is cooked. That's Schwally whining behind bars, whining about the circumstances of his life while he took stole the lives of four other people, including a husbands, mothers, and a newlywed cop off duty having her nails done. It's all about him and his life. Quote. It's over for me. Stephen Schwale pleads not guilty after he's indicted on four counts of second degree murder and other charges, although he then tells the New York Post he was quote guilty during an interview there at the Riverhead Correctional Facility. He's being held on one million dollar bill. Don't let him out. He will go straight to a bar or a liquor store and possibly kill somebody else. Oh my stars, I'm looking at some of the victims. They are so beautiful. There is the lady cop who lost her life. That's Amelia Rennick about to celebrate her one year anniversary married to NYPD Detective Carl Rennick. Then you hid Yanghai Chin that was a salon co owner. Then you had Jenny Shoe, an employee forty one, you had Mazie Jong, another employee just trying to make a living. One leaves behind a child with polio. One leaves behind two minor children to be raised without a parent. I just you know, Ben Powers, how do you somehow lessen that when you're arguing a case like this to a jury, so.
It doesn't devalue their lives that have been lost to argue what is legally appropriate. And so if I'm on the defense side, I'm pointing to the BAC and pointing to the fact that he's driving the car like it's a boat, just leaning left, leaning right, just can meandering down the road, and pointing to the fact that he never applied to break he was going to high raise speed, and he gave very had responses after the fact, like give me my license back, I've done nothing wrong, you know, point to all those various facts to say this is a dui. It's a tragic dui, but it's a dui. Nonetheless, that had tragic consequences. This is not second degree murder. And so my fixation when I'm making those types of arguments is on the law and what is appropriate under the law, because the vehicular homicide still holds him accountable for his actions of taking these lives, and that's the more appropriate charge if I'm on the defense arguing that. Now, obviously, if on the prosecutor side, I'm arguing a second degree because of all the reasons I'll point out.
Earlier, Schwally purchased two three hundred and seventy five milliliter Long Island iced tea bottles the morning of the crash. The bottles found empty by investigators after the crash.
Even now, I don't know we're getting the whole truth. He had a BAC blood alcohol content of point one seven, the legal limit. I don't even think there should be a llegal limit. Why should you drive after you'd been drinking at all? But the legal limit is point zero. Eight point one seven would be over double the legal limit. And apparently they didn't notice him wobbling in and apparently this was his second trip. He had already had those eighteen beers. What about a Dodgor Kendall Crowns. My question is if by the time he was tested he was point one seven, I'm sure time had passed, would the blood alcohol level have dissipated.
So every hour you don't drink, your blood alcohol level will go down point oh two. So, but if you continue to drink, your blood alcohol level will not go down and will continue to go up. So each bottle of beer, glass of wine, or shot of whiskey will raise your blood alcohol level point oh two.
Question Lauren Colin joining us a co host of Prime Time Crime on YouTube. Lauren, was he Schwally the driver injured at all?
No?
He was barely injured. And isn't that how it always happens.
The driver is always okay and he kills everybody.
In his path.
So no, he was completely fine. You can see the scratches on his face. I mean he went into amazing yeah intoport with a wheelchair. Maybe that was for effect, but no, he was fine.
You know. To Joseph Chimbley, engineer act reconstructionist at Viatech, Joe, how many times have you handled a vehicular homicide reconstructing and all the victims die and the drunk driver lives.
It's incredible. It seems like it happens every time. There could be a severe impact, maybe even a head on collision between two vehicles, and for some reason, the drunk driver is able to escape with minimal injuries.
Incredible, Joe, I've seen it over and over. I have no explanation. They didn't teach me that law school. So to Erica Lynn, who is a victim of drunk driving. Both of her parents died in the hands of a drunk driver. Like a soccer mom, Erica, as someone who has been through this, what is your message today?
My message is that, first of all, I'm devastated for these families. I really am, because I know their journey ahead and they don't even know what's coming down. They're going to have a criminal child, likely a civil trial against the bar that served him. And you're right that they are not injured. They never get injured, and there's a reason for it, I believe, and I believe they're so loose from the amount of alcohol in their bodies that they're not bracing their bodies for impact, and that's why they do survive.
I heard that theory many times before. My goose is cooked. You're right. This is it for me. You're right, but could you stop thinking about yourself and think about somebody else. Nancy Gray signing off, goodbye friend,