Truck driver struck, killed

DUIs truly do kill. My condolences to the Danes family.

I cannot imagine going from having a nice buzz and a good time only to be locked up for homicide the next minute.

MAN! just trying to make a living and look what happens. DUI'S , what a mess. so sorry to hear that.

This was truly tragic. Bill was a great man, doing what he loved working to support his Famliy. Bill You Will Be Loved and Missed by all. WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU......Blondie

What a tragic waste, of two lives. You'd think people would start to get it by now. Oglesby should be sue for all he and everybody related to him is worth to make recompense for his sheer stupidity. If the families of drunk drivers started getting tagged for the mess caused by their loved ones, things would start changing real fast.

how on earth can you justify holding accountable the family of a grown man? Especially in situation where his family may not even live in the same state! Talk about a democratic mindset...oh let's get something without working for it. Bull. This man was driving under the influence. He is the only one at fault for the death of Mr. Danes. There is noone else to blame. Not his family, not his friends, not the manufacturer of the alcohol or the automoblie he was driving. If morons were not always trying to figure out ways to get money without earning it a lot of things would not be so expensive! frivilious lawsuits should be BANNED!!!

Drunk in the morning?

I certainly don't think this family is "trying to figure out a way to get money without earning it". The wife and three precious sons of Bill Danes were changed today as a result of Mr. Oglesby's selfishness and stupidity. In all of your grand advise, how do suggest that they move on? How do you explain to a three year old and a four month old that they had a very loving father (something many kids live without) but that someone took him away FOREVER? How does she move on financially when he has been the breadwinner for the family? All of the love and support she will get will be from her family and friends. What will Mr. Oglesby's friends and family do? I agree that lawsuits can be frivilious, however, there is nothing frivilious about this case. This is about good, decent, hard-working, law-abiding, God-fearing people who deserve far more than what they got today.
Dear Almighty God, bless Bill Danes and his family and hold them close to you!!
To RebelTA, There are some good guys left in the world, join us!!

String up the drunk. That is the only way to stop them. What really bothers me the most is the number of folks that hate smokers, because it is so dangerous, but see no reason to regulate alcohol. I really feel sorry for the young man and his family. If there is going to be a site to provide donations for his family would someone please post it.

Fiat lux, his family is not responsible for what he did. How do you stop a grown man from drinking alcohol?

I am the mother of the oldest child that has been effected by this tragic display or ignorance! My 14 yr old son and his 2 baby brothers will never see their father again! These 2 youngest kids will not know the joy of having a father as long as my son did, and that is a shame! Bill Danes was if nothing else a wonderful father & provider when it came to his family! His wife "Shawn" will have to raise the 2 youngest knowing that these 2 boys will not remember anything of their father except what she tells them! There is no sensible reasoning for anything like this to happen to any family!

And what is wrong with these people that think it's OK to drink & then get behind the wheel of a car and risk other peoples life's? This isn't Oglesby's first DUI for those of you that don't know, in fact this is his second one! I have no sympathy for this man, I do however feel much despair for the court system that has allowed another DRUNK to kill when it may have been possible to have stopped these events from happening! May GOD have mercy on his soul, because I pray the court system won't!

If families of drunks started having to pick up the tab for their stupid kin, the stupid kin might have the bejesus pounded out of them the first time they get caught for DUI, maybe while they're young and still haven't killed anyone. It's not a practical suggestion but more of a blue-sky wish, because it ought to cost a drunk's family a whole lot more that it costs his victim's family when he does something like this t..rd in long pants has done. I'm a great believer in family accountibility and peer pressure in controlling antisocial behavior. Parents who are forced to pay for the sins of their offspring are much more careful parents than the ones who just pop 'em out and leave 'em to their own devices.

Fiat Lux, You have no idea what you are talking about, every person that drinks and drives does not have horrible parents. Judge this man if you must, he has done a tragic and horrible thing but his family doesn't deserve this any more than Mr Danes or his family does. No one deserves this sort of pain. And yes I have lost a loved one to tragic circumstances but putting blame where it doesn't belong doesn't help anyone. When this man got behind the wheel of this vehicle he devastated many lives. Don't you dare cause either family more pain by your hateful garbage.

One question SCORPIOMOON: Can you read? Do you have the ability to actually understand what you read? Or, did you just scan my comments and then fling irrelevant nonsense up on the comment board without caring how ridiculously inaccurate your befuddled analysis is? I said nothing about Oglesby's parents, much less blame them; for all I know (or care), they could be as sweet as pie and as upright as a deacon's back. My generalization that parents-- and this would apply even to really good parents-- are more careful in their parenting if their kids' screw-ups roll back on them was just that: A GENERALIZATION, but accurate nonetheless. You would agree that many parents of criminals do just bring their children into the world and then do little but feed and clothe them after that, right? Try not to be so defensive. It's bad for you blood pressure and your perspective.

Fiat, what the heck are you talking about. I have told my boys from the word go I am not going to be held accountable for their actions. If you get in trouble it is your fault. I taught you right from wrong and if you so choose to go and do wrong don't ask me EVER....I will not bail you out, I will not pay your fines, I will do nothing but support the justice system and in the event that I think that justice wasn't served I will stand up and demand a more severe punishment.............Think I am not telling you the God's honest truth, ask my son. When he was 19 and got a DUI I requested the judge to sentence him substance abuse classes along with his sentence of DUI classes.... And then I refused to even give him a dime, a ride or anything that would help him complete his sentence....What I did give him was a picture of my best friend's husband's car after he was killed by a drunk driver, to show him what could have happened.....My son didn't live with me at the time, and I still don't know who provided the alcohol to him, so you tell me why I should be held accountable. I pop a top and I stay home, a lesson he has seen all his life...

LIKE I SAID!!! It's NOT A PRACTICAL SUGGESTION but a blue-sky wish. If it were a general practice in our society, it would make a big impression on young people, especially on any high school kids who saw it happening to families they knew. AGAIN, it's NOT a practical suggestion, but a wish for something that would avert this kind of stupid, self-centered behavior in the future. You aren't even reading, or else can't really comprehend, the part where I qualify my opinion concerning how reasonable it is. Jeez, you guys are wound up super tight today. The thought police are looking for recruits and you might consider applying.

When I was in the 8th grade (many many years ago) we were shown a film where the victims of a DUI were shown burned, and mutilated, and the drunk driver walked away without a scratch. Today that would be so politically incorrect..........But guess what, it had such a lasting impression on me that I could never get behind the wheel after even one drink, the images to this day haunt me.........Put this type of education back in schools and see what a difference it makes..............

Saw the same film; it had the same effect. Agree that it would still be effective.

Looks like John Daly is back in the CSRA.

Talk about tacky...

Alot of people get behind the wheel of a car and they should never have. Bill Danes was a loving father and a great friend to me and my husband. It is awful that such a careless person could rip someone as sweet and caring out of this world so fast without a second thought. Maybe when Oglesby sobered up this morning he realized what he has done. Those 3 children will miss out on alot with their Father. I have watched him with my own childern and with all three of his. He was great and it has been a loss for this small community where we all live. The mothers of his oldest and the youngest 2 have alot to deal with right now and should not have to deal with the ignorance of others at this time. Oglesby is the one to blame and I feel no sympathy for him. My family just spent time with Bill Danes and he will be missed by all of us also. It hits you hard when something as STUPID as drunk driving takes anyone but Bill was a great man. Our thoughts and prayers are with Bill's kids and family. He will be greatly missed.

To Bill Danes family may God be with you.

Fiat, what about JUSTUS Brothers and sisters, drinking and driving?

May God bless both families. This is certainly a tragic that could have been avoided. Bill Danes is finished on earth now. The hands of the clock cannot turn around and bring him bace. He knows that to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord and TO DIE IS GODLY GAIN.I pray that God gives his family and driends the peace that surpasses all understanding. All the words in the world can't help Mr. Danes now. He's with the Lord. We need to now get where he is because we, too have an appointed assignment by God to die. Where will we spend our eternity? Will we spend it in hell or Heaven?May God bless those beautiful babies and do let me know if there is ANYTHING that I could do to assist the familyat this time. My sincere heart goes out to you and I truly love you. We must show love and respect to each other in the time of need. My prayers are with you. Read and meditate on John 14, Romans 10:9,10, Psalm 91, Psalm 51. Deuteronomy 32;29, and 11 Chronicles 7:14. God bless .you!!!

Colcamp1
What do you mean by that statement?

Flat I know you are generalizing but at what age would parents stop being the blame; this guy is 27yrs old.

AAQueen, when you 'blue-sky', you aren't coming up with a fully formed plan, for heaven's sake. I find it hard to believe you could be so literal-minded and concrete. Most people appreciate abstractions and hyperbole by the time they enter adulthood. Oh, wait, this isn't the Wall Street Journal or WaPo, is it! OMG. Sorry for assuming general readers might possess any subtlety of thought. How is it that you have so completely missed the point?

Fiat_Lux Just by reading your comments I'm thinking you don't have any family members that ever drank and got behind the wheel. Because if they did you would call in re-enforcements to have them arrested and punished, this would be your responsibility to the safety of all. But reality tells me you have no control and you can not cure an alcoholic. You would have to babysit these people 24hrs a day and I'm sure you were asleep at 2:40am so you wouldn't have been much help and I'm sure you don't want to be held accountable for a death while you were sleeping.

I'm sorry that the lives of the Danes's family have been terribly effected by this drunks action. This man Bill must have been a wonder man and what a great loss it is to the one's close to him. I'm sorry this happened. My heart goes out to you.

And BTW, AAQ, parents ALWAYS retain some accountibility for their children in this life, simply because all of us fail our children at some point and in some way. None of us parent perfectly and even the most loving, most godly, most insightful of us have lapses. It's what makes close extended families so good for growing children: lots of overlapping love and formation. Regardless of how American opinion has redefined the family & come to accept ineffective, even destructive substitutes, families are designed to prevent behavior like Oglesby's, because of the love and loyalty each member has for the rest of his family. Have you never heard a kid say, "It would just kill my mom if we got caught"? Oglesby apparently didn't think those thoughts, more's the pity. You have to wonder how he could have loved drinking more than he hated what his causing such a senseless tragedy would do to his mom and dad. In my book, that makes him a really evil person, one who needs to be off the streets for the rest of his life.

Anyone serving alcohol know they may be contributing to effects of the individual whether it makes them happy and jolly or so drunk they're out of control. Friends don't let friends drive drunk or do they?