Life In The Fast Lane

Life in the fast lane, surely make you lose your mind. Life in the fast lane, everything all the time". He said, "Call the doctor. I think I'm gonna crash." "The doctors say he's comin', but you gotta pay him cash." They went rushin' down that freeway, messed around and got lost. They didn't know they were just dyin' to get off, and it was life in the fast lane. ‘Life in the Fast lane’ By ‘The Eagles’“The national amount of alcohol related deaths in 1998: females 3,642 and males 12,332. In the year 2000 that number drastically increased. Females increased to 3,838”, (5% increase), “and males amplified to 12,685”, (3% increase). “In Florida alone the number of alcohol related deaths in 1998 was 1,039. Then in 2000 the number rapidly increased to 1,277. That’s a 23% intensification.” (Statistics provided by MADD.com). Some of the deaths from alcohol can be quick and painless, but others can become very graphic.Mandy heard a phone ringing and didn’t want to get up at two in the morning, so she let the answering machine take the call. What she heard next took her breath away: Mandy heard the sheriff’s department telling her family that her sister, Misty, was in a car accident and to come to the hospital immediately. The wreck occurred just east of a beach. Mandy awoke her parents with frightening thoughts running through her head. Mandy and her parents listened again to the message, but it wasn’t the sheriff’s department, it was one of Misty’s friends, Shannon.
Shannon was behind Bryan, another one of Misty’s friends, when Shannon said she saw Bryan hit a curb and flip over the median with Misty in the rear seat of the car. The car flipped over a guard rail landing in a heavy marsh area. Misty was ejected from the rear side window of the car and landed in a large tree. Upon reaching consciousness, she fell from the tree and landed on the ground, which was very swampy, near her cell phone that was glowing, still active. Misty immediately called the police and tried to walk over to the wreck site. Misty could hear her boyfriend, David, moaning in pain from his immense wounds. She limped along, and then fell into a ditch filled with water up to her chest. Luckily she was nearer to the road, and a man driving by saw what happened. He stopped and helped her as he also called the police. When Misty got to the wreck site, David was trapped in a metal case of the car; Bryan was beneath him, barely alive. Bryan and David flipped over a bridge and Misty landed farthest from the original accident, atop a great tree. Misty was taken to the hospital, David was Bayflighted to another, more intensive, hospital, and Bryan was reported dead on arrival.Misty was diagnosed with a torn knee ligament, many scars, and numerous gashes on her side. Her right arm had broken tendons and skin torn away. Her boyfriend, David had his right side torn up, a punctured lung, and all ribs on his right side were broken except for one. He says “That rib, it’s for Misty.” Bryan’s cause of death was determined to be from the immense wounds he received and impact he felt from the crash. All of Bryan’s ribs were broken, which pierced both his lungs and over a short amount of time lead to suffocation.Misty has been gradually recovering after twenty eight hours in the hospital. David is still recovering after being in the more intense hopsital for close to six days. Bryan is resting in peace. The funeral was somber, but it gave a certain peace to everyone. Drunk driving is not a joke. Bryan, Misty, and David were all impaired and chose not to get a ride from someone sober. They usually got a ride home from the owner of the bar, but that time they didn’t. They thought it would be okay to drive. It wasn’t, and it ended with another person dead from the poisons of alcohol.