Student sees dead father in DUI crash photos shown by police

[elehhhhna]

Sept. 10, 2005, 10:39PM
Student sees dead father in DUI crash photos shown by police
Associated Press

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — A 12-year-old girl saw her father's remains in a gruesome photograph shown during a presentation by police warning teenagers about the dangers of drunk driving.

The girl's mother, Marla Cabbage Higginbotham, said her daughter was traumatized by the experience at her middle school last month in which she saw her father lying in a pool of blood with a crushed skull and mutilated face and torso.

She said the family did not know he had been drinking when he died.

An attorney representing the mother and daughter sent a letter to the Knox County law director's office calling for an investigation.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3348463

[Catch22Dem]

1. holy jeebus that is fucked up!

Can you even begin to imagine?

[goddess40]

2. That's horrible

To show these pictures, name the person and then ask if anyone knows them is beyond sick.
But come on "the family didn't know he had been drinking when he died" Either someone is stretching the truth or Tenn. doesn't have drunk driving laws. Maybe the mother meant that the daughter didn't know, but that isn't the way she said it.

[China_cat]

3. Could the other driver

have been drunk and the police just put the whole thing down to 'dui' without pointing out just WHO was drunk? That could be the reason the family didn't know he was drinking...he wasn't.

[goddess40]

5. you're right, but you'd think the police report would note the reason

for the crash. But I can understand the grieving family not being able to read about the crash.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. That's horrible and wrong

I thought they had to have permission from the family to show such things?

[Maine-ah]

4. they showed these types of films to students up here

when I was in high school. 16 years later, and there is still one photo that will haunt me forever. The guy literally "ate" his steering wheel, ripped his face open from ear to ear. I really feel for this girl.

Why are they showing pics from local accidents?