I am awoken from a deep sleep to a truck flipped in my yard. I live in the middle of nowhere. My uncle was first on scene (he lives here too) and as I came out I was immeadietly hugged
by the young DUI driver, offering several hundred dollars for a ride home (he was on probation). My uncle and another passerby try to keep him sitting but a car full of his friends drives by and he jumps in and takes off.
A few minutes later we hear his phone ringing from inside the truck. I call central dispatch and advise them he left the scene and gave the description of the vehicle. About 10 minutes later we see a car travelling down a very rarely travelled dirt road (especially 2am in the middle of state land) and see it turn down an even lonlier dead end dirt road, with a large SUV squeeling tires after it. About another HOUR later the large SUV which was the state police pulls up, surveys they scene, waits for a wrecker and then leaves. Whatever car they had stopped was not involved.
My question, what will happen to the driver? The police ran his plate I guess, but didn't call his parents or anything, just collected the beer cans and left. Do they send someone to his house to wake his parents up looking for him? How is this handled?
What are the consequences for leaving the scene of a DUI, can they still prove he was drunk at the time with just the beer cans there?

A few minutes later we hear his phone ringing from inside the truck. I call central dispatch and advise them he left the scene and gave the description of the vehicle. About 10 minutes later we see a car travelling down a very rarely travelled dirt road (especially 2am in the middle of state land) and see it turn down an even lonlier dead end dirt road, with a large SUV squeeling tires after it. About another HOUR later the large SUV which was the state police pulls up, surveys they scene, waits for a wrecker and then leaves. Whatever car they had stopped was not involved.
My question, what will happen to the driver? The police ran his plate I guess, but didn't call his parents or anything, just collected the beer cans and left. Do they send someone to his house to wake his parents up looking for him? How is this handled?
What are the consequences for leaving the scene of a DUI, can they still prove he was drunk at the time with just the beer cans there?
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