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Mizzou Assistant Arrested On DWI Suspicion

August 26, 2010
Author: Chris M. Alexander

Bruce Walker, a football coach at the University Missouri, was incarcerated on August 2, in the evening by the campus police on suspicion of drunk driving.

No Charges Reported

Until now no reports of charges or fines have been reported to the media and no one knows if Walker will be charged with DWI.

Coach Found Behind the Wheel

Captain Brian Weimer of the University Missouri Police Department said, the officers’ said that when they showed up to the Missouri Athletic Training Complex parking lot late that evening the coach was behind the wheel of the vehicle with the engine running.

The Coach Called a Taxi

A Columbia lawyer that Walker talked to said, the football coach and a couple of the football teams staff members were putting coolers in Walker’s pick-up truck and there was a cab which was called to give him a ride home waiting nearby when the incident happened.

The Coach was in the parking lot after a trip

The Missouri football coaches had went on a field trip with their families to a Missouri lake and was in the parking lot after coming back from the trip on the bus.

Matter Can Be Handled On the Campus

The assistant athletic director for media relations at the school told reporters that appropriate action to handle the matter on campus was being taken and the coach would be coaching at the football team first practice of the year.

Campus Police Have Jurisdiction

On most college campuses, campus police have jurisdiction over matters like this and they are handled by campus magistrates and not local city law enforcement personnel so the school has a wide leeway in how the matter is handled.

Drunk Driving a serious issue in Missouri

Missouri law takes driving while impaired very seriously because law enforcement in the state reports that of the over 8,000 accidents in Missouri in 2000 involved people that had a blood alcohol level of .01 or more.

Damage Caused By Drunk Driving

In 2000 one in almost every 200 miles driven in the state was a driver with a blood alcohol level of .08. Law enforcement in Missouri reported that of about almost 50,000 accidents in Missouri involved drinking caused 511 deaths and hurts about 16,000 Missouri citizens.

Missouri Drunk Driving Cost

Drinking and driving is an issue in almost 30% of Missouri’s accident costs. DWI related accidents in Missouri cost the people about $3 billion in the year 2000; this includes $1.2 billion in cost in money and about $1.6 billion in injuries and loss of life. Drunk driving crashes are worst and more deadly than most other accidents. Citizens that are not drunk paid almost $2 billion in DWI crashes.

Tags: Druk Driving, DWI Suspicious

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