Drive a 13-year-old son to escape arrested by drunk driving

The revised Road Traffic Law which came into effect on September 19, 2007 punishment for drunk driving in Japan became strict but in the United States pretty severe penalties such as imprisonment have been stipulated.

Meanwhile, it seems that there was a parent who made a 13-year-old son drive a car in order not to be arrested for drunk driving. Of course, a 13-year-old boy did not have a driver's license for a car and it seems that it was a dangerous driving at a level that is not funny when accident happens.

Details are from the following.
Police: Marin Couple Used Boy As Designated Driver - cbs5.com

Mom's designated driver: her 13-year-old son

San Francisco / San Anselmo police officer Rob Schneider has dangerous driving such as meandering and reverse running at Sir Francis Drake streetLand RoverI warned that I will stop driving immediately. When checking in the stopped car, a 13-year-old boy was sitting in the driver's seat, and another couple who was drunk seemed to be on board.

When Schneider led the case, the boy who was driving turned out to be the son of a woman, Heather Choulos (32) who was aboard. Heather seems to have been after dinner and drinking with a boyfriend Donald Hughes (29) and his son, at an Italian restaurant LoCoco in San Anselmo street. Heather and Donald have a history of being arrested in drunk driving in the past, and if they are arrested again by drunk driving, they will receive a fine of about 1 million yen, imprisonment punishment, foreclosure of car registration and so on themselves I told my 13-year-old son to drive a car instead of a car.

Heather Choulos on the left is the mother of the boy, Donald on the right is Heather's boyfriend.


In the end, Heather appeared in the court on September 6th, such as "child endangerment" (crime to bring the child into dangerous eyes), and Donald said he was arrested for "public intoxication" (excessive drunkenness in the public).