Man killed by drunk driver while he was taking a field sobriety test

[Champ]

(1010 WINS) (BORDENTOWN TOWNSHIP, N.J.) A man who had been stopped by police on suspicion of drunken driving was killed while being given a sobriety test when a truck plowed into the scene early Saturday morning, authorities said.

When police stopped the driver of the truck less than a mile away they found open containers of alcohol in the vehicle and charged him with driving under the influence, according to prosecutors.

The series of events began just after 2 a.m. when an officer stopped the car of William F. Grieb, 34, of Hamilton Township on Route 130 for suspected drunken driving, according to Burlington County Prosecutor Robert Bernardi.

As the officer was giving Grieb a field sobriety test on the side of the road a tractor-trailer driven by Shane Gildersleeve of Baiatie, N.Y., crashed into the police car which then struck Grieb's vehicle, Bernardi said.

http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_353160435.html

[48pan]

1. Darwin Alert!

I wonder if the guy killed was drunk?

[RPM]

2. question...

was the man doing the field test indeed intoxicated?

If yes - how ironic...

If no - how tragic

[cruadin]

3. I think that the irony factor is off the scale...

in either case.
Weird story.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. That's pretty much how I see it. n/t

[Fridays Child]

8. Tragic and ironic, either way, actually.

And I smell a lawsuit.

[UrbScotty]

5. Whether he was drunk or not, he did NOT deserve to be killed.

[Osamasux]

6. Sounds like something from the Twilight Zone

[soothsayer]

7. refuse those field tests. they're not even scientific