Drunk Driving

My 22 yr old step-daughter, very drunk, rolled her car at midnight last week.  She had to be extricated from the vehicle and taken by a Careflight helicopter to a trauma center.  Still slurring her speech, she called her dad at 3:13 am to say she was okay, broke her shoulder and her wrist but otherwise fine.  

I am hated by this young woman.  I pray for her, the mother in me is so relieved she didn't die and even more relieved she didn't harm anyone else.

My angst, and keep in mind her father was a police officer for 15 years and I have worked at the Lewisville Police Department for 8 years in Dispatch, the officer at the scene didn't cite her for expired insurance, he noted the accident was contributed in part to excessive speed but didn't give her a ticket for that either.  And the grandaddy of my angst, he ignored her intoxication completely.

I don't want her to have legal repercussions to her actions because she is hateful to me and we have a very estranged relationship.  I want her to experience the hard consequences that drunk driving has so she will be so woken up to the point that she will stop feeling so invincible.  This isn't the first time she has driven drunk, just the first time she got caught-but did she really get "caught?"  

As an EMT working on an ambulance years ago, I have seen people die and the young drunk driver with their whole life ahead of them jailed for decades.  This accident could have been a way to learn an important, imperative lesson without killing someone.  Instead, she only seems concerned about the loss of her precious Lexus.

Megan, you don't have to like anything about me and you can even hate me.  But that doesn't mean I can't still love and care about you.  I am grateful you are still on this earth and hope you have the support you need to recover.