Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Some people are showing support for the man accused in a series of hit-and-run crashes in Canandaigua earlier this week.
William Lantier faces several charges, including DWI, in a series of events that happened Wednesday morning. Police say he hit a car at Route 332 and Thomas Road then continued into Canandaigua, hitting several more cars before a good samaritan was able to stop him.
Lantier was in Canandaigua City Court on Friday morning with his lawyer.
http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S3546468.shtml
Type 1? Type 2? Medication? Poorly controlled? Hypo? We aren't told. I'm often surprised at how diabetes is seen as a mitigating factor in the US - over here you'd have to show you did everything possible to prevent 'some type of diabetic episode'.
It seems over there that the knowledge of what diabetes might do to a person is very poor, and the 'diabetes card' is often played as a defence.
William Lantier faces several charges, including DWI, in a series of events that happened Wednesday morning. Police say he hit a car at Route 332 and Thomas Road then continued into Canandaigua, hitting several more cars before a good samaritan was able to stop him.
Lantier was in Canandaigua City Court on Friday morning with his lawyer.
http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S3546468.shtml
Type 1? Type 2? Medication? Poorly controlled? Hypo? We aren't told. I'm often surprised at how diabetes is seen as a mitigating factor in the US - over here you'd have to show you did everything possible to prevent 'some type of diabetic episode'.
It seems over there that the knowledge of what diabetes might do to a person is very poor, and the 'diabetes card' is often played as a defence.