Man faces drunk-driving charges after four teen footballers killed

Globe and Mail

Published Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011 9:15PM

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Four members of a high school football team in northern Alberta were killed by a drunk driver, making it

Alberta's second big loss of teenage life on the roads within a week. A twenty one year old man has been charged with 11 offences, including failure to remain at the scene of the accident. This tragedy happens a week after two girls and two boys from southern Alberta were killed when their car went off the road, flipped, and landed on its roof in a creek. The RCMP said that speed and driver inexperience was the cause. The two incidences are separated by around a thousand kilometers,  a couple days, and different circumstances, but they are both linked by a pair of crashes that took the lives of 8 teenagers, all 16 and under. Police have charged the local 21 year old with 11 offences, one being operating a motor vehicle while over the 0.08 blood alcohol limit. He will be in court October 31st.

This is very tragic to hear that people so young that had so much life ahead of them, pass away because of something like this. The 21 year old man should receive no sympathy for what he did, and have a long sentence in prison. For him to be driving drunk, and then leave the scene of the accident makes what he did even worse.  People should know better than to drive when you have been drinking, and learn from previous incidents. I feel terrible for the families of the young kids who lost their lives. They must be having a very difficult time trying to come to grips with it all. It is also crazy that another group of teenagers lost their lives in Alberta near the same spot, only one week apart from each other. This time the cause was the teenagers were not being safe and responsible while driving. For the car to go off the road, flip and land in a creek, they must have been under the influence, or going way too fast. The two tragic accidents both relay the same message. You have to be causes and be responsible while driving, to look out not just for yourself, but for all the other drivers on the road.