Not only is the driver of this C7 Corvette a downright terrible driver, he’s kind of a terrible person for fleeing the scene of an accident, only to cause a second, even more serious one minutes later.
Local news affiliate NH1 reports Kevin Cullinane was piloting his C7 Corvette near Cumberland Farms in the state of New Hampshire when he struck another vehicle. Following the accident, witnesses said Cullinane sped off and fled the scene. One point for being an awful human being, if you’re keeping score.
However, minutes later, he slammed into a second vehicle, pushing it into a telephone poll. Again, Cullinane attempted to flee the scene, but witnesses detained him into local authorities arrived. Score one point for karma.
Upon their arrival, police stated not only was Cullinane at fault for this more serious wreck, but the vehicle was wanted for the previous hit-and-run minutes earlier. All of this transpired within seven minutes. Seven.
To no surprise, it was found Cullinane was operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs, and he has quite a laundry list of charges being penned to his name.
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Under the “influence of drugs” was he?
Which drugs?:
Penicillin?
Aspirin?
Caffeine?
Tylenol?
Dextromethorphan?
Abilify?
Nicotine?
A Poppy-Seed muffin?
Because I can tell you which drug made ABSOLUTELY NO CONTRIBUTION to behavior like this – cannabis.
Likely drug to induce this behavior? Chrystal meth, or pcp.
Take your ‘drugs did it’ bs and read up on Dunning Kruger (Cornell) and Jon Haidt (NY Stern Business School)
Sorry, forgot the biggest, most likely drug of all to cause this evil act.
Alcohol.
Sorry, but your assessment for cannabis is incorrect. I have seen its effects and the slow reaction times of those under its influence in accidents. Try all you like to paint the rosiest of pictures for smoking pot, but it does hinder people’s motor skills and abilities to operate a motor vehicle as safely as someone who has not consumed. Just like alcohol, heroin, meth or any other substance that alters the brain, marijuana has its own set of drawbacks. For all you know this clown was high on weed or a combination of many things. As you noted, it doesn’t state what substance the driver was abusing so you shouldn’t be assuming it wasn’t weed. This guy was an idiot and it should be noted and warned against, but please​ don’t try to spin and condone that the hippie lettuce is safe to use while operating any kind of machinery.
I’m a professional traffic accident investigator.
I’m also a professional traffic accident investigator and the person who puts those little silver balls on the tops of cakes you buy from the grocery store.
The ‘lettuce’ has less effect on slowing reaction times than caffeine addicts who haven’t had their morning fix. Let’s be absolutely clear here – if you’re addicted to coffee (and if you need it in the morning, you are) and for some reason you did NOT have the coffee this morning, you are as disabled to operate your machinery as an experienced cannabis user. Fact – Oxford University 2005
Where’s your references?
Old Trombone, this has nothing to do with coffee.
Aside from the fact that the Corvette driver was involved in not one, but TWO incidents in a very short period of time, in both instances he tried to run. Is this what missing your morning cup of coffee does?
Frankly I don’t care what the “drug” was, he shouldn’t have tried to flee the scene. Therefore, I hope that they throw the book at him.
Agree, fleeing the scene is like saying “I’m guilty as f..k, lock me up now if you can catch me”. Karma won in the end.
My facts are years of experience investigating and re-creating traffic accidents involving DUI as well as taking 100’s of hours of courses on how to recognize people under the influence of various drugs and alcohol. I don’t need to qualify myself to an internet stoner who reads whatever article or study that gives you self-affirmation for your bad behavior. There is reading books or articles to get the affirmative you are looking for, but then there is the real world experience where you have to inform a family that their loved one was killed or maimed by a drunk or drugged driver. Please do us all a favor and stay home after taking that toke.
Amen,Brother.
ChiPpy, I’m not arguing that DUI is somehow not DUI. When you say you don’t have to qualify yourself to a ‘stoner’ that’s ok, but it doesn’t stop the fact that facts have to be qualified by researched truth. Turning around to a stoner and saying you don’t have to justify yourself to me is a classic argument-avoidance technique which deliberately shifts the argument away from “Facts have to be Checked”
The FACT I pointed out which you dismissed and avoided was VERY CLEAR.
Researched evidence from Oxfrod University in 2005 has proved, scientifically and therefore factually, that coffee drinkers who have not had their coffee are as slowed-down in reaction times as experienced stoners on weed.
I’m not asking for weed to made legal for driving.
I’m asking for coffee drinkers to prove they’ve had their coffee before they’re allowed to drive. Unlike you, I want less danger from slowed-down reaction drivers.
And what happens when Police Officers accept their in-house training as ‘complete’ training, and then universities publish new facts which contradict decades-old training programs, yet the police training programs don’t include the latest research from non-police sources?
Oxford published this stuff in 2005! That’s 12 years ago. And still not one police dept is taking un-coffee’d-up drivers and giving them sobriety tests. They’re not safe! Literally as unsafe as stoned drivers.
You HAVE TO get beyond your assumptions if you want to increase the amount of life saving. Saving lives in only the traditional ways will only ever save traditional lives.
Coffee has a negative effect on road safety. Get over it!
Caffeine and Cocaine are both central nervous system stimulants. Cocaine is certainly the more serious of the two, but based on the Oxford study, it could then be argued that Cocaine users are slowed down when they don’t have the drug active in their system and would need to have it before they could operate without deficiency. Do you really want to argue those people who haven’t had a hit of Cocaine need to take one before they drive so they can be more clear headed. So again, research can take on whatever avenue the study and author want it to take. Then there is research that could possibly completely contradict what the Oxford study was claiming. We see itball the time in science. In all my years, I have never had to deal with someone who caused a major accident or did anything like the story above, just because they didn’t have their morning cup of coffee or bottle of Pepsi. I have however seen plenty of this from people who have been high on coke, heroin, alcohol, marijuana, meth, pcp, driving while exhausted, parolee in a stolen vehicle, a combination of all as well as other distractions. I’m just here to say I don’t care what drug of choice you or others may want to use personally or advocate for the benefit you receive from it. Just don’t make it someone else’s problem because a choice was made to use a mind altering substance and then get behind the wheel of a vehicle and drive.
Ride a bicycle past a coffee drive-through entry way anytime between 6-8am. I dare you.
Don’t break any rules, do everything just right … and see what kind of behavior occurs.
Out of morbid curiosity, I looked it up online. Driver was 54 – figured they’d have the results of his blood draw by now, but no.
He’s from Mass – I just figured it was meth or alcohol. Who knows.
You missed a huge laundry list of other pharmaceutical drugs which could have been the root cause. But we all doubt that it was anything other than the usual street drugs easily available these days.
In any event, the driver should have been well aware of his state of ability to drive, but apparently ignored that.
He deserves what he’s going to get.
Not to mention the damage and possible injuries to other parties. That’s a complete lack of consideration on his part. My sympathies lie with the wounded parties, not with the ‘Vette driver. He should have known better.
As a Corvette enthusiast and owner, this man gives all Corvette owners a bad name. It’s a shame that he caused these accidents and destroyed a beautiful C7. He doesn’t deserve to own such a wonderful auto.
Barry, I couldn’t agree more. There is simply no excuse for that kind of behaviour. Thank you for your comment.
So many d-bags drive vehicles beyond their capability. Sigh.
You can argue the stimulant angle till the cows come home. It still doesn’t make a rats red ass difference that this driver felt he was above the law by not stopping and taking responsibility for the first accident and created another accident. In my humble opinion, he should be completely responsible for both accidents and own up to everything, being on drugs or not!