Yet Another Celebrity DUI Arrest
July 19, 2010 – 3:40 pm
Last month, Motley Crue rocker Vince Neil joined a long list of celebrities who have been arrested for driving under the influence, after he was arrested for intoxicated driving in Las Vegas. This DUI arrest seems to acquire special significance because of the fact that Neil had earlier been involved in a fatal drunk driving accident back in 1984. Neil allegedly caused an accident that killed a musician who was riding with him and injured two people. In that accident, Neil had been headed to a bar with his friends, after an entire day of drinking, to buy more drinks. With this, Neil joins other luminaries like Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson and Paris Hilton, who have been arrested on DUI charges.
It’s not as if Las Vegas drunk driving accident lawyers expect celebrities to set moral examples for the rest of the population it comes to safe driving practices. However, the increasing number of celebrities who seem to be getting caught driving under the influence, is definitely a matter of concern. Often, these celebs seem to get away with lighter sentences and cushy prison time. The image of Paris Hilton, waltzing out of jail after her jail time for a DUI offense, can’t be easily forgotten. But celebs seem to take drunk driving and all the consequences of such behavior, very lightly. It’s easy for the general population, especially the young and teenagers who look up to these celebs, to believe that DUI is no big deal when they see their idols seemingly blasé about the whole deal.
The problem is even more acute in Las Vegas, which continues have a major problem with drunk driving accidents. Images of Hilton breezing through her prison time and lack of seriousness with which people like Lohan take their DUI convictions, send out the wrong message to impressionable minds.
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