- We were driving one of our "old balloons" full of friends home from Cambridge , crossing the bridge over into Charlestown when a car coming in the opposite direction started to drift right into our lane. I was driving and as I veered over to the right side the car seemed to hone right in to us and as it got closer I noted that there was no one behind the wheel! The car caught one end of ours and pinned us up against the guard rail. I ran over to the other car and the driver was sprawled across the front seat…I seem to remember shaking him to see if he was all right and he came to with the strong smell of booze on his breath…he had passed out drunk and was not driving the car! The police came soon and as we had minimal denting we took a look over the side of the bridge and it was quite a drop so that had we been forced over would have resulted in bad injuries or deaths. The police took our statement, that he was intoxicated and said we could go and they would handle it from there.
Later that night or the next morning as I thought about it, the really close call it had been I called the MDC precinct and found out the guy had been held and released….this was before drunken driving was taken serioulsy and thankfully things changed over time…but what ever happened to that guy and what could have happened to us?
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