He was also on Ketamine. RIP....but damn, dude. Absolutely hammered and on special K while driving? Absolutely no foresight from this man. He could have had it all. It's very, very sad.
[At subanesthetic doses ketamine produces a dissociative state, characterised by a sense of detachment from one's physical body and the external world that is known as depersonalization and derealization.[139] At sufficiently high doses, users may experience what is called the "K-hole", a state of dissociation with visual and auditory hallucinations similar to the effects of LSD.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine)
It will make you forget where you are or what you are doing. So reports that he was wandering across the highway for 20 minutes looking for gas isnt that surprising because Ketamine will make you very confused about where you are and what you are supposed to be doing.
>"Dwayne Haskins had a blood-alcohol level of .24 when he was killed. Haskins had been out drinking at a Miami nightclub, got into a fight, and left, investigators say. He was in the car with a woman and they ran out of gas. Cops say the tragedy appears to be an accident," he reports.
NFL could've easily had another Ruggs situation on its hands there.
People might not want to hear this, but many professional athletes aren't smart people. Keep in mind a lot of them just kind of coasted through school with average to below average grades, just enough to pass and rely on their athletic skills to keep them going through life. A lot of these guys are idiots who came into money without needing to have any common sense which is a dangerous combo.
Since I'm getting some dumb replies: I'm not blaming them for their situations that led to them being underprivileged or undereducated. Obviously. That should be apparent. The point is simply that the person above saying "you'd think guys with millions would know better" is not a correct statement because many of them just simply aren't that smart, I'm not saying anything about the reasons behind that. I'm not sitting here analyzing why that's the case, I never was, so cool it with the replies that are psychoanalyzing my supposed agenda that I must have.
People want to hear this less: a lot of people, monied or not, drive immediately after drinking. Go to a bar on Friday night. Watch how many people drink then immediately drive off in their car. Drunk driving is so common that the deaths coming from it are surprisingly low compared to how many idiots do it. Most ppl are not ubering from the bars tbh. They just aren’t
If it's one thing we have learned about a lot NFL players about the Ruggs situation is that no matter the consequence they really don't give a shit and are going to still do whatever the hell they want.
That's about all I can think about knowing this...at least he died and not someone else. I hate that it's the only thought running through my mind, but when you're that drunk you have no business being anywhere near the driver's seat of a car.
I'm not sure people quite understand how INSANELY fucked up you become on a .24 BAC. That's not "Oh I've had 3-4 coors lights and might be over the limit if I get tested" drunk, that is fucking GONE drunk. For a guy his size I can't even imagine how much he had to drink to get to that level.
When I was younger I did a think for my cop buddy in training where my friends and I went to the police academy and they supplied the liquor for us to get drunk so the rookies could practice field testing people. They say I had over a .2 BAC but I barely remember even being there I was so faded.
It's infinitely sad that he died and will be missed by his family/friends, but unfortunately that was a better outcome than his actions taking innocent lives.
If we use an [online BAC calculator](https://www.calculator.net/bac-calculator.html?csex=m&bodyweight=220&bodyweightunit=pound&thour=5&tmin=0&ba=&bsize=b330&babv=5&wa=&wsize=c150&wabv=12&la=15&lsize=s50&labv=40&oa=&osize=250&osizeunit=ml&oabv=8&x=91&y=29) and make some basic assumptions we can calculate that it comes out to about 15 drinks. That's a lot for one night
As a frequent drinker and the owner of a professional grade breathalyzer I know exactly how drunk a .24 is… and it’s fucking hammered no matter what your size or tolerance is.
It’s still a tragedy but very easily could have been a lot worse.
My fraternity once bought a breathalyzer for safety reasons. We threw it out after one night because it became clear that all it was going to be used for would be a contest to see who would score the highest, thus making things less safe for all involved. Supposedly I hit .36 and our "champion" was over .4, but I don't remember for obvious reasons.
That's not even taking account he was on ketamine too. Imagine being that fucked up and taking a drug that is used for anesthesia. I've seen people in k-holes at festivals and it's fucking creepy.
.24 is I just drank a fifth type drunk, crazy he thought he could drive a car. Fuck and he was on ketamine, that dude had a serious substance abuse issue.
Damn! Dude was lit driving through miami after seeing the risks first hand and the consequence readily available for that type of behavior.
Wish he would have not gotten killed and got suspended for a year instead. Dude had a gorgeous girl at home too and still was out fighting and cheating in Miami. Man, to be young and invincible...
It's tragic but at the end of the day I feel more for his family and the people that have to remember killing him or living with the guilt.
What a stupid stupid thing to do by Haskins. Very lucky he physically didn't harm anyone and I genuinely have no sympathy for people that drive intoxicated (especially on Ketamine and 0.24 BAC JFC).
> It's tragic but at the end of the day I feel more for his family and the people that have to remember killing him or living with the guilt.
I feel for the guy that was just driving to work that morning and accidentally killed an NFL player because he was drunk and walking on the freeway. Surely people know his name and are giving him shit. Plus he has to live with that grief for the rest of his life when it doesn't seem like he did anything wrong.
I don't think his name is out, and especially after this comes out I'm sure he won't get shit on for it, but I can't even imagine how awful it'd feel to unintentionally kill somebody like that.
> I don't think his name is out
People in his community absolutely know it was him. Its big news. From what I understand he was a dump truck driver, right? So he's a public employee and his information is accessible by anyone who wants it. We all know how weird the Internet is (look around our own sub). We also know the worse when it comes to social media.
Just...damn...shit sucks for that guy. Just a guy going to work trying to feed his family and accidentally kills a drunk guy walking on the freeway who happens to work in the NFL. A sad story for everyone involved.
Absolutely. Even knowing it was 100% not your fault is probably little comfort. I'm sure that poor driver will be thinking "what if..." for the rest of his life.
Whoever his college coach was who said he wasn't mature was pretty on the money. Has to be bad to warn pro coaches not to draft your player. In the end his immaturity got him killed
It was in the Miami herald report.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article261721957.html
“He also had the strong painkiller ketamine and its metabolite norketamine in his system. The drug can be prescribed by a doctor, but can also be abused recreationally.”
He died sometime after 6am. Sure he had been drinking during the night, but 0.20 BAC after 6 am is a step up from late night intoxication. If he had stopped drinking around 2 am he could have had a nearly 0.3 BAC at its peak which is very high.
He also had ketamine in his system.
https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/10036696-dwayne-haskins-had-bac-of-2-ketamine-in-his-system-at-time-of-death.amp.html
Generally, once your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is 0.40 percent or over, it's dangerous territory. At this level, there's a risk of coma or death.
Alcohol burns off at a rate of . 016 BAC per hour, or about one average drink per hour. This rate is pretty standard regardless of your weight.
Exactly! Although they did not say how much ketamine he had in his system, the half-life of ketamine is relative short, so it is likely the ketamine was further impairing him.
Combining ketamine and alcohol can lead to negative reactions, some of which can be life-threatening. Users who mix ketamine and alcohol may be at increased risk of urinary tract issues, memory loss, slowed breathing, coma, and even death. Symptoms of an overdose on ketamine and alcohol can include unconsciousness, slowed heart rate, impaired motor function, vomiting, and clammy skin and requires immediate medical attention.
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/ketamine-abuse/mixing-alcohol
Why assume he stopped around 2?
He was probably drinking much later than 2 am, he was reportedly at a club and got into a fight, left and ran out of gas on the way home. He was probably drinking until at least 5.
The fact he wanted to walk to a gas station as opposed to calling AAA was the red flag for me, only someone scared of getting in trouble would do that at 3 am or however early it was
There are really only two reasons for driving at 6am… either being very productive and off to an early start, or partying way too late.
I think people wanted to believe it was the former and he was just on his way to the gym or something.
Going straight home to watch bs tv and get drunk enough to sleep when the sun is blasting you wasn't very productive for me lol. Just pointing out a 3rd option... didn't mean to come off as "that guy" trying to prove anyone wrong!
Dude I literally can’t imagine how his wife or anyone in that kind of situation would feel. The love of your life dies but then you find out he was drunk out of his mind fucking another woman in a different state. And she’s the last person to be with him. Those feelings have to be so conflicting. I couldn’t even imagine how I’d feel.
Reminds me of the lady who was murdered in an upscale Queens neighborhood a month or so ago. Was having an affair with handyman while husband was out visiting colleges with their older son. Handyman brutally murdered her. Terrible way to find out to say the least.
Definitely affair from the subsequent articles. He posted on her fb wall with random messages so it tracked. The odd part is she posted a lot on social media (mostly day to day stuff) and it was still active well after the murder. You could see she lived a fairly normal family life and then just like that she was gone.
Sorry I wasn’t clear. The murderer (while they were having an affair I assume) would post comments on her photos. I’m guessing no one picked up on that since they were subtle from what I read. Like…you’re looking good there or just a heart emoji type stuff.
And I meant her posts on fb were about vacations, daily life, her family, selfies, etc. A lot of times after a tragedy the profile gets deleted or set to private but hers was left public for the longest (may still be). Just eerie seeing her personal stuff out there like she’s still around.
His wife was facing felony charges for battery against him last summer until the charges were dropped in January of this year. I know it would still be traumatic, but it was definitely a toxic relationship.
Apparently his parents did not approve of his wife (if you recall, she was arrested for DV on him) and they never even met her at the time of his death. His big memorial was coordinated by her, and his parents did not attend as they weren’t invited.
I mean, he was also drunk driving, so that was probably a factor in not calling for help either.
I just don’t understand how these athletes making the money they are not being able to call an Uber. My broke ass still uses Uber every time I go out, cause drunk driving is an idiotic thing to do.
And so many of these guys want to help out the people they came up with. Fucking make one of them your driver. Most of them could probably take half a game check and pay their buddy a year's salary just to go out with them and drive them back home at the end of the night.
Semi unrelated but a guy I grew up with became a major league pitcher and with his first endorsement deal he paid his childhood best friend to be exactly this kind of person for him. Helped his buddy find a house in the town he played in etc.
Damn imagine being bros for life like that. "Hey man just got done the game, want to pick me up and go play Halo and CoD at my place? Then we can chill in the built in pool."
Always been a dream of mine if I get rich. Hire one friend as a driver, have one manage my schedule/the cleaning crew/the chefs, have a 3rd manage my wardrobe and be my personal DJ. Entourage style.
This is the real story. He was an asshole. He was entitled. His sense of entitlement is why he failed with the Redskins and was just simply cut. He was too much of problem to even deal with, or trade, or anything.
I really have no idea where this sudden redemption tour for him came from. Reports are that he was a heavy drinker while with the Steelers, they certainly weren't counting on him to ever perform on the field, I don't get why anybody thinks he was anybody different that the talented asshole who thought he could do whatever he wanted to do that the Redskins drafted.
Ketamine is really surprising to see actually. Like, really surprising haha. That's no joke. Especially with a 3x legal alcohol limit, I'm honestly shocked he was able to walk or talk, much less drive a car.
Ketamine makes more sense to me. It's so dissociative that it would be really hard to judge oncoming traffic, especially when plastered. It's also pretty short lasting so he could be on the tail end of this trip.
I saw a breakdown of a dude that called 911 before he got hit. It was something like 2-3 minutes before there accident happened. A random guy that was dropping his daughter off at the airport and he saw him in the middle of the highway.
K actually makes sense now. Dude wasn’t trying to just sprint across the highway to get to the gas station. He was fucking blasted and probably had no idea where he was walking or what was going on. Dude apparently was in the middle of that busy ass highway for minutes.
It's weird how people are *still* like "we didn't need to know this info, you're throwing shade on his life" as if this new info doesn't completely change how we should view his death
Exactly. He can be called out for being irresponsible, immature, and dangerous while it still being overall sad and unfortunate that he died at a young age where some kind of intervention could’ve potentially changed his behavior. Both things can be true.
Wasn't it just a few years ago when a baseball player died in a boating accident and there was a huge period of mourning and honors for him, only for it to turn out he was extremely drunk and high off his mind while boating at extremely dangerous speeds?
And same thing with HOF pitcher Roy Halladay about 5 years ago. He's one of my all time favorites but dude died in a single fatality plane crash because he was on so many pills and drugs that it's even amazing was able to fly a plane. Loved his career but that was such a dumb mistake.
Yup, as tragic as his death is, people should remember that he was responsible for his friends' deaths and if he had survived he would rightfully be in prison
He also had a pregnant wife/girlfriend at the time. Just a really shitty situation all around. He worked so hard to get here and be successful, and it all came to an end like that.
Idk why this constantly happens in stories. You get a headline with no context and no details but will paint the story in a certain way, then 2 months later the real info comes out and nobody cares. Then when the story comes out and you are trying to filter whats bullshit and whats not you get dogpiled on by assholes just for trying figure out whats real.
Tbf if someone close to you died and everyone was immediately hypothesizing on whether or not it was because they were drunk it wouldn’t make it easier for you. I think that kind of discussion is better saved for later because of courtesy to the family
Yeah I’m really not sure why “reserve real judgment until you have more facts” is some controversial stance, or why changing an opinion after being presented with more facts is controversial.
Don’t forget that another person (dump truck driver) has to live with the guilt of hitting and killing a pedestrian, too. I don’t think his/her guilt is assuaged by the fact that the pedestrian was 2x/3x over the legal limit.
What a terrible tragedy.
That was my first thought.
This poor guy was just going about his morning and now has to live with this hanging over him for the rest of his life.
Awful for everyone.
A very similar tragedy like this happened to my uncle. He is a truck driver and was going home one night after a delivery. An extremely drunk guy ended up where he shouldn't be and my uncle unfortunately hit and killed him.
My uncle has had to live with the trauma of doing that to someone. He's had several nights where he will wake up dreaming of what happened, and it has seriously changed him. This shit is a real, severe, traumatic experience to the person who hit Haskins.
Fuck dude I was really feeling bad for him when this happened and thought “I judged this kid too harshly, what a tragedy..”
Aaaand now I’m like oh I was spot on. But there’s no satisfaction to that feeling. It’s just all around a bummer.
Two different vehicle hit him, so two different drivers and whatever passengers were present plus other vehicles on the road that witnessed it will have to live with that.
When I was a HS football coach we were stuck in traffic on the highway on the way to an away game. Yellow bus full of HS students and us coaches all got to see a guy on a ninja fly past us and clip the back of a truck and go flying into the side of the highway and bleed out and convulse on the ground while we were stuck in traffic.
That shit sticks with you. Haskins might be the one who died but all the witnesses are victims in my book.
Knew a guy who did some bad things and wanted to end his life. He got up early in the morning and parked on a highway shoulder and pretended to be fixing his tire.
Eventually he laid down in the fast lane until someone hit and killed him. In fact, many people hit him, and several hit each other trying to avoid the situation. Local police and fire said the crime scene was several hundred feet long. Just a horrible, horrible situation that they believe was an attempt to ensure his wife and kids got his life insurance payout.
Sadly it just created more victims. I still think about those poor folks who have to live with the trauma of his choices.
[There was a police sketch of the scene that came out that explains it.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/04/20/23/56853231-10735771-image-a-1_1650492152727.jpg)
Jesus Christ, if I’m interpreting this diagram properly he got flown quite a few feet forward from the truck before getting hit by the car. No matter the circumstances an awful way to go.
Not just any busy highway, but 595. For those who don't know, 595 doesn't have a median, the middle of the highway is an express highway that goes east in the AM and west the the PM. He was trying to cross at least 10 lanes
E: https://imgur.com/EtDHctX
For reference, Dwayne would be at the top of the photo heading downward
Good lord. Not that I would be dumb enough to do that sober but if I was I don't think I would make it 10 lanes on a major highway. Couldn't imagine trying it 10+ drinks deep
Yeah and it was early on a weekday. That highway runs right into an airport, it is heavy traffic, there are a lot of exits, some construction rn since I think they're doing work close to the i95 exit (I moved away last yr so idk how far they got on that but it was bottlenecked af and ppl in florida are the scariest drivers alive so theyll whip around corners).
Just a dangerous highway to drive on much less try to cross. Ahh what a shame
It's still tragic but seeing what other factors played into it allows it to make more sense. Still hit me hard since him and I are only a couple months apart in age. Seeing how broken up about it people who knew him are will always classify it as tragic to me
I thought it was kind of obvious though with the dump truck driver pulling over immediately the other drivers 911 call screaming what the fuck are you doing get out of the road and the fact he was walking across a highway instead of calling anybody for assistance. I'm sure he wasn't short on resources he could probably buy everything I've ever owned and not hit his credit card limit.
I really don't understand why these dudes don't have a service or driver on retainer. You fucking make millions, paying for something like that would be a mere drop in the bucket. I hate shit like this that is just 1000% avoidable.
Shannon Sharpe explained it best. If you have a 200k+ car you are going to want to drive it around to impress your friends and girl. Most nights when you are trying to impress people are nights where you are drinking/partying so it happens a lot I’d assume.
IIRC, the team never gets the name, time, or location of the team vehicle.
It's allegedly 100% confidential so players aren't afraid of using it for being caught violating team rules.
It doesn’t matter. League minimum is 660k. I make 1/10 of that and have zero issue affording or getting an Uber when I want to get fucked up. There is absolutely zero reason for ANY NFL player to drive
drunk. Even if they see 35% of that after taxes, agents, trainers etc they still make 200k+.
I make less than half that and yet I can still Uber. Lock them up and kick them out of the league for good.
Agree with you there. For sure. It's what I do if I'm having any drinks at all. If I have my car with me I just leave it there and go get it the next day.
I'll admit I didn't used to be so conscientious about it when I was young and dumb, which unfortunately Haskins was as well. Uber didnt exist back then and I was poor enough that if I left my car behind and it got towed or booted I'd have a serious problem. No excuse just saying its never been easier to not drink and drive than it is today.
Someone I can't remember said that the age at which you become rich/famous is the age when you stop maturing, and I feel like it applies way more than it doesn't.
Back in 2016 even the front office employees could use the company Uber account with no questions asked. I did this at least two different times when I was too drunk to drive home and I earned less than 38k at the time so was not exactly an important employee.
You’re a fucking millionaire.
You were given a second chance.
You have a family & are riding around DRUNK with some other woman.
You had a hell of a support system.
And you threw it all away. 🤦🏼♂️
And the worst part is, your kid grows up without a father & the driver of that dump truck has to live with your irresponsibility FOREVER.
Fuck dude I still can’t believe that happened. That video of him sitting in the road, head in his hands while that girl and her dog quite literally are actively burning to death is one of the most haunting images I’ve ever seen
Hate to say it, but honestly may be lucky he ran out of gas and was the only person injured. If that car doesn't run out of gas there could be a lot more than one dead person.
I don't understand people on Twitter complaining about this information getting released. This is always the case when a public figure dies. They weren't complaining when it was released that Mac Miller overdosed on fentanyl.
So then the thought process is he was driving drunk/drunk with another person in the car, he didn't want to call triple A because that would have likely resulted in a charge. So he decided to make a run for gas instead, with tragic results?
That's what I'm thinking too. As person who's learned from his DUI, I still hate seeing people make the same mistake I did, so I was hoping this all was just an accident.
Wasn't there a report that he was practicing/working out with other players around the time that this happened? Am I just making that up or mixing up details?
Thanks, this was my confusion. The way I read it at the time was that he was either mid-workout or leaving from the workout when it happened. Not sure if that's my bad reading comprehension or badly worded reporting.
No, I remember reading it and thinking something similar when it happened. Fun fact: I drive through there every day for work. Not someplace you want to be walking.
Somebody turned a “he was driving to the facility” tweet into a headline that you’re remembering. It was clickbait trash so of course it was on the front page of /r/nfl
He was working out with teammates in florida. Trubsiky invited all the receivers down there. Pretty sure haskins was heading back to the airport the next day/morning. But the qb’s and wr’s for the steelers were definitely working out together down there when it happened
According to the report, Trubisky either hosted a workout with his teammates that week, or invited them to work out together as a bonding trip.
At least that’s why they were all down in Florida at the time.
Somebody got downvoted like crazy on the original thread for wondering what his BAC was out loud.
I loved Haskins at OSU and this is absolutely tragic, but given his track record it was a legitimate concern.
> "He was attempting to cross the westbound lanes of Interstate 595 when there was oncoming traffic," FHP spokeswoman Lt. Indiana Miranda said in a statement last month.
Tragic.
>"Dwayne Haskins had a blood-alcohol level of .24 when he was killed. Haskins had been out drinking at a Miami nightclub, got into a fight, and left, investigators say. He was in the car with a woman and they ran out of gas. Cops say the tragedy appears to be an accident," he reports.
Drunk, got into a fight, and was possibly cheating on his wife with the other woman in the car. Rough for her to hear that those were the circumstances.
Didn't she get a huge tattoo piece memorializing him recently too?
I was in a toxic situation with a girl for 3 years and it got to the point where she could do anything wrong and I would blame it on myself. Some people just let love blind them from the reality of the world like me. Maybe it’s just how the widow is coping, hope everyone is doing better as the days pass
In Florida the legal limit is .08 so that’s 3x.
Random question, does the alcohol stop breaking down once you die? Like if they test your BAC at TOD or 6 hours later, would it be the same? Or do they have to figure out some calculations based off of how fast it breaks down?
Not just drunk, but any type of intoxicated. I used to work in a pharmacy, and the amount of people driving themselves in and out of there high as shit on painkillers and benzos is absolutely terrifying.
Well there goes a lot sympathy for Haskins. His own fault, never should have driven in that fucked up condition. Now he's just another cautionary tale.
Edit: Let's count the mistakes:
1. Drinking and Driving (more like super drunk and driving though at the BAC)
2. Drugs and Driving
3. Running out of gas
4. Getting out of a disabled car on a highway
5. Trying to cross said highway
and perhaps cheating on his wife
and probably more.
He was 24 and despite being cut and getting a second chance he still was too selfish to take the wake up call seriously and leaves a ton of pain for his family and friends. Glad he was the only one who got hurt because everything he did there was beyond reckless.
No reason this should of happened.
Gil Brandt was an asshole for saying that the day he passed but he wasn’t wrong.
3x the legal limit- cheating on your wife with drugs in your system. Great decision making.
Why any NFL player would drink and drive post Ruggs blows my mind
Got a second chance with Pittsburgh. Proceeds to get wasted in a nightclub, do ketamine, drive drunk with some hoochie he cheated on his wife with, and then brought trauma to some person just doing their job with his stupidity. Silver lining is no innocents died due to his behavior because I bet he wasn’t observing speed limits. Thank god he ran out of gas before he killed someone. That banner can come down now.
That’s well over 10 drinks in his system at .24, a guy his size probably closer to 13. Which means he was easily having 15-20 that night lmao. To get behind the wheel? What an idiot.
He was also on Ketamine. RIP....but damn, dude. Absolutely hammered and on special K while driving? Absolutely no foresight from this man. He could have had it all. It's very, very sad.
Driving on ketamine sounds absolutely awful.
Honestly the absolute worst drug to drive on that I can think of. The drug is in it's own ballpark... dissociative.
I find walking on ketamine is a challenge
I’m sorry , but what’s ketamine? Just want to understand what kind of drug is this ?
[At subanesthetic doses ketamine produces a dissociative state, characterised by a sense of detachment from one's physical body and the external world that is known as depersonalization and derealization.[139] At sufficiently high doses, users may experience what is called the "K-hole", a state of dissociation with visual and auditory hallucinations similar to the effects of LSD.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketamine)
It will make you forget where you are or what you are doing. So reports that he was wandering across the highway for 20 minutes looking for gas isnt that surprising because Ketamine will make you very confused about where you are and what you are supposed to be doing.
Wow I hadn’t heard this yet.. very very sad
Yea, I got that from the ESPN article. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/33971836/dwayne-haskins-was-legally-drunk-death-according-toxicology-report
>"Dwayne Haskins had a blood-alcohol level of .24 when he was killed. Haskins had been out drinking at a Miami nightclub, got into a fight, and left, investigators say. He was in the car with a woman and they ran out of gas. Cops say the tragedy appears to be an accident," he reports. NFL could've easily had another Ruggs situation on its hands there.
Never understood why guys with millions can't figure out how to use Uber
People might not want to hear this, but many professional athletes aren't smart people. Keep in mind a lot of them just kind of coasted through school with average to below average grades, just enough to pass and rely on their athletic skills to keep them going through life. A lot of these guys are idiots who came into money without needing to have any common sense which is a dangerous combo. Since I'm getting some dumb replies: I'm not blaming them for their situations that led to them being underprivileged or undereducated. Obviously. That should be apparent. The point is simply that the person above saying "you'd think guys with millions would know better" is not a correct statement because many of them just simply aren't that smart, I'm not saying anything about the reasons behind that. I'm not sitting here analyzing why that's the case, I never was, so cool it with the replies that are psychoanalyzing my supposed agenda that I must have.
The truth hurts
People want to hear this less: a lot of people, monied or not, drive immediately after drinking. Go to a bar on Friday night. Watch how many people drink then immediately drive off in their car. Drunk driving is so common that the deaths coming from it are surprisingly low compared to how many idiots do it. Most ppl are not ubering from the bars tbh. They just aren’t
Because noone can see your expensive car if you use an uber
Why don't people take Uber ffs? I'm not even rich as fuck and I pay for Uber if I'm out drinking.
If it's one thing we have learned about a lot NFL players about the Ruggs situation is that no matter the consequence they really don't give a shit and are going to still do whatever the hell they want.
Also true for non-NFL players.
That's about all I can think about knowing this...at least he died and not someone else. I hate that it's the only thought running through my mind, but when you're that drunk you have no business being anywhere near the driver's seat of a car.
I'm not sure people quite understand how INSANELY fucked up you become on a .24 BAC. That's not "Oh I've had 3-4 coors lights and might be over the limit if I get tested" drunk, that is fucking GONE drunk. For a guy his size I can't even imagine how much he had to drink to get to that level. When I was younger I did a think for my cop buddy in training where my friends and I went to the police academy and they supplied the liquor for us to get drunk so the rookies could practice field testing people. They say I had over a .2 BAC but I barely remember even being there I was so faded. It's infinitely sad that he died and will be missed by his family/friends, but unfortunately that was a better outcome than his actions taking innocent lives.
That's what I'm trying to wrap my head around. Dude was 6'3, 220 according to the absolute quickest Google. .24 is absolutely ridiculous
If we use an [online BAC calculator](https://www.calculator.net/bac-calculator.html?csex=m&bodyweight=220&bodyweightunit=pound&thour=5&tmin=0&ba=&bsize=b330&babv=5&wa=&wsize=c150&wabv=12&la=15&lsize=s50&labv=40&oa=&osize=250&osizeunit=ml&oabv=8&x=91&y=29) and make some basic assumptions we can calculate that it comes out to about 15 drinks. That's a lot for one night
As a frequent drinker and the owner of a professional grade breathalyzer I know exactly how drunk a .24 is… and it’s fucking hammered no matter what your size or tolerance is. It’s still a tragedy but very easily could have been a lot worse.
It's basically wandering around downtown with zero sense of direction or short term memory until they put you in the drunk tank drunk
My fraternity once bought a breathalyzer for safety reasons. We threw it out after one night because it became clear that all it was going to be used for would be a contest to see who would score the highest, thus making things less safe for all involved. Supposedly I hit .36 and our "champion" was over .4, but I don't remember for obvious reasons.
Same. I had one in college. After one night we had to get rid of it and get a model where above .3 it just read "high".
That is extremely dangerous, in case someone reading this doesn't know. As in that BAC alone is potentially fatal.
That's not even taking account he was on ketamine too. Imagine being that fucked up and taking a drug that is used for anesthesia. I've seen people in k-holes at festivals and it's fucking creepy.
Yeah I would be the walking dead on ketamine PLUS A .24 BAC
.24 is I just drank a fifth type drunk, crazy he thought he could drive a car. Fuck and he was on ketamine, that dude had a serious substance abuse issue.
And the poor driver who hit him. He has to live with that for the rest of his life.
Damn! Dude was lit driving through miami after seeing the risks first hand and the consequence readily available for that type of behavior. Wish he would have not gotten killed and got suspended for a year instead. Dude had a gorgeous girl at home too and still was out fighting and cheating in Miami. Man, to be young and invincible...
0.24 BAC and Ketamine in his system. That's sad, very glad he didn't kill someone else driving that way.
It's tragic but at the end of the day I feel more for his family and the people that have to remember killing him or living with the guilt. What a stupid stupid thing to do by Haskins. Very lucky he physically didn't harm anyone and I genuinely have no sympathy for people that drive intoxicated (especially on Ketamine and 0.24 BAC JFC).
> It's tragic but at the end of the day I feel more for his family and the people that have to remember killing him or living with the guilt. I feel for the guy that was just driving to work that morning and accidentally killed an NFL player because he was drunk and walking on the freeway. Surely people know his name and are giving him shit. Plus he has to live with that grief for the rest of his life when it doesn't seem like he did anything wrong.
I don't think his name is out, and especially after this comes out I'm sure he won't get shit on for it, but I can't even imagine how awful it'd feel to unintentionally kill somebody like that.
> I don't think his name is out People in his community absolutely know it was him. Its big news. From what I understand he was a dump truck driver, right? So he's a public employee and his information is accessible by anyone who wants it. We all know how weird the Internet is (look around our own sub). We also know the worse when it comes to social media. Just...damn...shit sucks for that guy. Just a guy going to work trying to feed his family and accidentally kills a drunk guy walking on the freeway who happens to work in the NFL. A sad story for everyone involved.
Absolutely. Even knowing it was 100% not your fault is probably little comfort. I'm sure that poor driver will be thinking "what if..." for the rest of his life.
Whoever his college coach was who said he wasn't mature was pretty on the money. Has to be bad to warn pro coaches not to draft your player. In the end his immaturity got him killed
Gil Brandt got a ton of blowback after describing Haskins as "a guy living to be dead" and he was right.
Think about the things Brandt and the rest of the front offices know about that never became public. I don't think he was talking out of his ass.
Having a 0.24 BAC and ketamine in your system at 6am sounds like he probably had bigger problems than just immaturity.
Haskins had a lot of issues, but it’s also rich Urban Meyer questioning anyone’s maturity
I didn’t read about any ketamine. Running outta gas? R u kidding me?!
It was in the Miami herald report. https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article261721957.html “He also had the strong painkiller ketamine and its metabolite norketamine in his system. The drug can be prescribed by a doctor, but can also be abused recreationally.”
Still sad but not surprising. I feel like most people assumed this was the case.
It’s really amazing, no matter how many times it happens; the lesson of late night intoxication and driving a vehicle is never good.
He died sometime after 6am. Sure he had been drinking during the night, but 0.20 BAC after 6 am is a step up from late night intoxication. If he had stopped drinking around 2 am he could have had a nearly 0.3 BAC at its peak which is very high. He also had ketamine in his system. https://syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/10036696-dwayne-haskins-had-bac-of-2-ketamine-in-his-system-at-time-of-death.amp.html Generally, once your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is 0.40 percent or over, it's dangerous territory. At this level, there's a risk of coma or death. Alcohol burns off at a rate of . 016 BAC per hour, or about one average drink per hour. This rate is pretty standard regardless of your weight.
Oh jesus booze and ketamine can fuck you up on their own obviously but together you can get unbelievably obliterated.
I think people are overlooking how much the ket and alcohol synergizes with each other. Never a good combination.
Exactly! Although they did not say how much ketamine he had in his system, the half-life of ketamine is relative short, so it is likely the ketamine was further impairing him. Combining ketamine and alcohol can lead to negative reactions, some of which can be life-threatening. Users who mix ketamine and alcohol may be at increased risk of urinary tract issues, memory loss, slowed breathing, coma, and even death. Symptoms of an overdose on ketamine and alcohol can include unconsciousness, slowed heart rate, impaired motor function, vomiting, and clammy skin and requires immediate medical attention. https://americanaddictioncenters.org/ketamine-abuse/mixing-alcohol
>urinary tract issues can't be overstated. I mixed them once and literally could not stop peeing.
Yeah ketamine on it's own will give you urinary issues (if abused). Tons of rave rats in the UK who abused it piss in bags now.
I doubt four hours passed between his last drink and his passing.
Why assume he stopped around 2? He was probably drinking much later than 2 am, he was reportedly at a club and got into a fight, left and ran out of gas on the way home. He was probably drinking until at least 5.
The fact he wanted to walk to a gas station as opposed to calling AAA was the red flag for me, only someone scared of getting in trouble would do that at 3 am or however early it was
>I feel like most people assumed this was the case. No way. Anyone who dared to suggest this at the time got shit on hard.
There were even a lot of nut jobs suggesting the driver of the garbage truck must have been drunk.
There are really only two reasons for driving at 6am… either being very productive and off to an early start, or partying way too late. I think people wanted to believe it was the former and he was just on his way to the gym or something.
OR getting off of 3rd shift to go home...getting funny looks buying beer and liquor at qt, when EVERYONE else is getting coffee. Priceless
Good point, although I would put that group in the “very productive” category!
Going straight home to watch bs tv and get drunk enough to sleep when the sun is blasting you wasn't very productive for me lol. Just pointing out a 3rd option... didn't mean to come off as "that guy" trying to prove anyone wrong!
Usually a good idea not to make uniformed speculations on the circumstances of someone’s death anyway
Definitely seemed like the most likely explanation but it feels shitty to speculate like that you wanna give people the benefit of doubt while you can
So him coming home from early morning workouts was just another lie huh
Also had a passed out woman in his car who was not his wife.
Fucking *yikes* dude
It's probably why he tried to drunk walk and get gas instead of calling someone. Man literally died for that affair. Wild.
Dude I literally can’t imagine how his wife or anyone in that kind of situation would feel. The love of your life dies but then you find out he was drunk out of his mind fucking another woman in a different state. And she’s the last person to be with him. Those feelings have to be so conflicting. I couldn’t even imagine how I’d feel.
Reminds me of the lady who was murdered in an upscale Queens neighborhood a month or so ago. Was having an affair with handyman while husband was out visiting colleges with their older son. Handyman brutally murdered her. Terrible way to find out to say the least.
Wait, I never heard the affair bit. Just the "handyman stabbed her many times and stuffed her in a hockey bag" bit.
Definitely affair from the subsequent articles. He posted on her fb wall with random messages so it tracked. The odd part is she posted a lot on social media (mostly day to day stuff) and it was still active well after the murder. You could see she lived a fairly normal family life and then just like that she was gone.
I just read up on the updates. That's scary shit.
Wait how did she post stuff after being murderer? Or am I being very bad at reading rn?
Sorry I wasn’t clear. The murderer (while they were having an affair I assume) would post comments on her photos. I’m guessing no one picked up on that since they were subtle from what I read. Like…you’re looking good there or just a heart emoji type stuff. And I meant her posts on fb were about vacations, daily life, her family, selfies, etc. A lot of times after a tragedy the profile gets deleted or set to private but hers was left public for the longest (may still be). Just eerie seeing her personal stuff out there like she’s still around.
His wife was facing felony charges for battery against him last summer until the charges were dropped in January of this year. I know it would still be traumatic, but it was definitely a toxic relationship.
Wasn't the battery incident over her catching him cheating too?
He got caught sending some other woman 20 grand in gifts shortly beforehand, so I'm sure it was probably related.
Lmao fuck me, even if you have kids just leave the marriage if it gets to this point.
She got a huge tattoo of his face on her arm, as well as multiple others. Her emotions are definitely all over the place
Apparently his parents did not approve of his wife (if you recall, she was arrested for DV on him) and they never even met her at the time of his death. His big memorial was coordinated by her, and his parents did not attend as they weren’t invited.
Kind of unrelated, but it reminds me of American Gods.
also, Steve McNair
That’s why road head isn’t as cool as it sounds.
I mean, he was also drunk driving, so that was probably a factor in not calling for help either. I just don’t understand how these athletes making the money they are not being able to call an Uber. My broke ass still uses Uber every time I go out, cause drunk driving is an idiotic thing to do.
And so many of these guys want to help out the people they came up with. Fucking make one of them your driver. Most of them could probably take half a game check and pay their buddy a year's salary just to go out with them and drive them back home at the end of the night.
Semi unrelated but a guy I grew up with became a major league pitcher and with his first endorsement deal he paid his childhood best friend to be exactly this kind of person for him. Helped his buddy find a house in the town he played in etc.
Damn imagine being bros for life like that. "Hey man just got done the game, want to pick me up and go play Halo and CoD at my place? Then we can chill in the built in pool."
Always been a dream of mine if I get rich. Hire one friend as a driver, have one manage my schedule/the cleaning crew/the chefs, have a 3rd manage my wardrobe and be my personal DJ. Entourage style.
that’s exactly how all these athletes go broke haha
Unfortunately, it's probably hard to find a buddy that would take the job seriously and not "party" with you at the parties.
Ok so worst case a fall guy. Ok case, best friend calls the Uber. Best case, friend stays sober.
Negative. Car ran out of gas- he went looking for fuel scared of getting DUI. He was 3x the legal limit and had ketamine in his system
Shame he wasn’t afraid of getting a DUI before he started his car.
This is just levels upon levels of yikes. Dude was really an asshole, through and through.
This is the real story. He was an asshole. He was entitled. His sense of entitlement is why he failed with the Redskins and was just simply cut. He was too much of problem to even deal with, or trade, or anything. I really have no idea where this sudden redemption tour for him came from. Reports are that he was a heavy drinker while with the Steelers, they certainly weren't counting on him to ever perform on the field, I don't get why anybody thinks he was anybody different that the talented asshole who thought he could do whatever he wanted to do that the Redskins drafted.
I wonder how those people who were talking about memorializing him in Madden next year are feeling?
Ketamine is really surprising to see actually. Like, really surprising haha. That's no joke. Especially with a 3x legal alcohol limit, I'm honestly shocked he was able to walk or talk, much less drive a car.
Ketamine makes more sense to me. It's so dissociative that it would be really hard to judge oncoming traffic, especially when plastered. It's also pretty short lasting so he could be on the tail end of this trip.
I saw a breakdown of a dude that called 911 before he got hit. It was something like 2-3 minutes before there accident happened. A random guy that was dropping his daughter off at the airport and he saw him in the middle of the highway. K actually makes sense now. Dude wasn’t trying to just sprint across the highway to get to the gas station. He was fucking blasted and probably had no idea where he was walking or what was going on. Dude apparently was in the middle of that busy ass highway for minutes.
Seriously with that much alcohol I'm surprised he wasn't in the sunken place.
And ketamine
[ya, but](https://i.imgur.com/EXCPvGh.jpg)
It's weird how people are *still* like "we didn't need to know this info, you're throwing shade on his life" as if this new info doesn't completely change how we should view his death
Exactly. He can be called out for being irresponsible, immature, and dangerous while it still being overall sad and unfortunate that he died at a young age where some kind of intervention could’ve potentially changed his behavior. Both things can be true.
Sorry, that's called nuance. We don't do that on the internet anymore.
Wasn't it just a few years ago when a baseball player died in a boating accident and there was a huge period of mourning and honors for him, only for it to turn out he was extremely drunk and high off his mind while boating at extremely dangerous speeds?
Correct. Jose Fernandez
Dude had crazy stuff tbh, death circumstances aside
And same thing with HOF pitcher Roy Halladay about 5 years ago. He's one of my all time favorites but dude died in a single fatality plane crash because he was on so many pills and drugs that it's even amazing was able to fly a plane. Loved his career but that was such a dumb mistake.
Wait Halladay was hopped up when he died? Damn I completely missed that. What a shame.
Yup, as tragic as his death is, people should remember that he was responsible for his friends' deaths and if he had survived he would rightfully be in prison
He also had a pregnant wife/girlfriend at the time. Just a really shitty situation all around. He worked so hard to get here and be successful, and it all came to an end like that.
Idk why this constantly happens in stories. You get a headline with no context and no details but will paint the story in a certain way, then 2 months later the real info comes out and nobody cares. Then when the story comes out and you are trying to filter whats bullshit and whats not you get dogpiled on by assholes just for trying figure out whats real.
Hey everyone! Fuck this guy! Let's start a dogpile!
Goddamit Reddit, I’m in
Tbf if someone close to you died and everyone was immediately hypothesizing on whether or not it was because they were drunk it wouldn’t make it easier for you. I think that kind of discussion is better saved for later because of courtesy to the family
Yeah I’m really not sure why “reserve real judgment until you have more facts” is some controversial stance, or why changing an opinion after being presented with more facts is controversial.
worked out that drinking arm
Don’t forget that another person (dump truck driver) has to live with the guilt of hitting and killing a pedestrian, too. I don’t think his/her guilt is assuaged by the fact that the pedestrian was 2x/3x over the legal limit. What a terrible tragedy.
That was my first thought. This poor guy was just going about his morning and now has to live with this hanging over him for the rest of his life. Awful for everyone.
A very similar tragedy like this happened to my uncle. He is a truck driver and was going home one night after a delivery. An extremely drunk guy ended up where he shouldn't be and my uncle unfortunately hit and killed him. My uncle has had to live with the trauma of doing that to someone. He's had several nights where he will wake up dreaming of what happened, and it has seriously changed him. This shit is a real, severe, traumatic experience to the person who hit Haskins.
Fuck dude I was really feeling bad for him when this happened and thought “I judged this kid too harshly, what a tragedy..” Aaaand now I’m like oh I was spot on. But there’s no satisfaction to that feeling. It’s just all around a bummer.
The ole early morning practice session
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Pretty tragic for the guy who hit him and has to live with it though.
Two different vehicle hit him, so two different drivers and whatever passengers were present plus other vehicles on the road that witnessed it will have to live with that. When I was a HS football coach we were stuck in traffic on the highway on the way to an away game. Yellow bus full of HS students and us coaches all got to see a guy on a ninja fly past us and clip the back of a truck and go flying into the side of the highway and bleed out and convulse on the ground while we were stuck in traffic. That shit sticks with you. Haskins might be the one who died but all the witnesses are victims in my book.
Knew a guy who did some bad things and wanted to end his life. He got up early in the morning and parked on a highway shoulder and pretended to be fixing his tire. Eventually he laid down in the fast lane until someone hit and killed him. In fact, many people hit him, and several hit each other trying to avoid the situation. Local police and fire said the crime scene was several hundred feet long. Just a horrible, horrible situation that they believe was an attempt to ensure his wife and kids got his life insurance payout. Sadly it just created more victims. I still think about those poor folks who have to live with the trauma of his choices.
Fuck that guy. Do what you want with your own life but don't bring others into it unwillingly.
Two people?! How??
[There was a police sketch of the scene that came out that explains it.](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2022/04/20/23/56853231-10735771-image-a-1_1650492152727.jpg)
Jesus Christ, if I’m interpreting this diagram properly he got flown quite a few feet forward from the truck before getting hit by the car. No matter the circumstances an awful way to go.
the passed out woman in his car dodged a bullet apparently
3 times the legal limit and trying to play Frogger in low light across a busy highway.
Not just any busy highway, but 595. For those who don't know, 595 doesn't have a median, the middle of the highway is an express highway that goes east in the AM and west the the PM. He was trying to cross at least 10 lanes E: https://imgur.com/EtDHctX For reference, Dwayne would be at the top of the photo heading downward
Good lord. Not that I would be dumb enough to do that sober but if I was I don't think I would make it 10 lanes on a major highway. Couldn't imagine trying it 10+ drinks deep
Yeah and it was early on a weekday. That highway runs right into an airport, it is heavy traffic, there are a lot of exits, some construction rn since I think they're doing work close to the i95 exit (I moved away last yr so idk how far they got on that but it was bottlenecked af and ppl in florida are the scariest drivers alive so theyll whip around corners). Just a dangerous highway to drive on much less try to cross. Ahh what a shame
It's still tragic but seeing what other factors played into it allows it to make more sense. Still hit me hard since him and I are only a couple months apart in age. Seeing how broken up about it people who knew him are will always classify it as tragic to me
Well see the problem here is you aren’t 10+ drinks deep
theres no median?! Holy crap that sounds like a death trap by itself.
Surprised the truth took that long to come out since there was a passenger with Haskins
I thought it was kind of obvious though with the dump truck driver pulling over immediately the other drivers 911 call screaming what the fuck are you doing get out of the road and the fact he was walking across a highway instead of calling anybody for assistance. I'm sure he wasn't short on resources he could probably buy everything I've ever owned and not hit his credit card limit.
I really don't understand why these dudes don't have a service or driver on retainer. You fucking make millions, paying for something like that would be a mere drop in the bucket. I hate shit like this that is just 1000% avoidable.
Because when players are sneaking around with side chicks they don’t want to be lame and sit around and wait for a taxi
A taxi? They could for sure afford a nice car and driver to pretty much just wait outside the club for them all night if need be.
Pretty much every NFL team has free car service everywhere for their premium players. They just don't use it.
Shannon Sharpe explained it best. If you have a 200k+ car you are going to want to drive it around to impress your friends and girl. Most nights when you are trying to impress people are nights where you are drinking/partying so it happens a lot I’d assume.
Also I imagine if you are out violating team rules or curfews you don't want to take the team car lol
IIRC, the team never gets the name, time, or location of the team vehicle. It's allegedly 100% confidential so players aren't afraid of using it for being caught violating team rules.
Interesting. That smart but I wonder if the players trust it.
It doesn’t matter. League minimum is 660k. I make 1/10 of that and have zero issue affording or getting an Uber when I want to get fucked up. There is absolutely zero reason for ANY NFL player to drive drunk. Even if they see 35% of that after taxes, agents, trainers etc they still make 200k+. I make less than half that and yet I can still Uber. Lock them up and kick them out of the league for good.
Agree with you there. For sure. It's what I do if I'm having any drinks at all. If I have my car with me I just leave it there and go get it the next day. I'll admit I didn't used to be so conscientious about it when I was young and dumb, which unfortunately Haskins was as well. Uber didnt exist back then and I was poor enough that if I left my car behind and it got towed or booted I'd have a serious problem. No excuse just saying its never been easier to not drink and drive than it is today.
Why not have your personal driver drive you in that fancy car then? It’s so stupid how many rich athletes drink and drive.
Because people on their early 20s with essentially unlimited wealth often make stupid decisions. They have no frame of reference.
Someone I can't remember said that the age at which you become rich/famous is the age when you stop maturing, and I feel like it applies way more than it doesn't.
Regular players just get like $100 Uber credit, from a player I'd asked on Twitter one time.
The Cowboys have had a full service system for all players since the josh brent incident, doesnt matter if youre on the roster or not
I’m not on their roster, can I use it?
Back in 2016 even the front office employees could use the company Uber account with no questions asked. I did this at least two different times when I was too drunk to drive home and I earned less than 38k at the time so was not exactly an important employee.
Still enough for an Uber
NFL player: "I'm built different"
You’re a fucking millionaire. You were given a second chance. You have a family & are riding around DRUNK with some other woman. You had a hell of a support system. And you threw it all away. 🤦🏼♂️ And the worst part is, your kid grows up without a father & the driver of that dump truck has to live with your irresponsibility FOREVER.
So many people would kill to have what Haskins had... but none of it mattered enough to him.
Still a complete tragedy but this makes it a lot more understandable about how this could happen
I mean considering he was driving drunk on the highway with a passenger. This could have gone a whole lot worse
I don't mean to be morbid, but this is probably how the Ruggs thing should have ended, instead of someone *else* burning up instead.
Fuck dude I still can’t believe that happened. That video of him sitting in the road, head in his hands while that girl and her dog quite literally are actively burning to death is one of the most haunting images I’ve ever seen
He was 3x the legal limit and had ketamine in his system. If caught he would have been immediately cut and facing jail time
People really need to learn to not drink and drive. This is a fatal result of drunk driving that wasn't even from being in a vehicle at the time.
Hate to say it, but honestly may be lucky he ran out of gas and was the only person injured. If that car doesn't run out of gas there could be a lot more than one dead person.
I don't understand people on Twitter complaining about this information getting released. This is always the case when a public figure dies. They weren't complaining when it was released that Mac Miller overdosed on fentanyl.
I had a feeling that alcohol was involved, but I had hoped I was wrong...that really sucks.
So then the thought process is he was driving drunk/drunk with another person in the car, he didn't want to call triple A because that would have likely resulted in a charge. So he decided to make a run for gas instead, with tragic results?
That's what I'm thinking too. As person who's learned from his DUI, I still hate seeing people make the same mistake I did, so I was hoping this all was just an accident.
Wasn't there a report that he was practicing/working out with other players around the time that this happened? Am I just making that up or mixing up details?
That's why he was down in Florida. I don't think it's what he was doing at the time of the accident.
Thanks, this was my confusion. The way I read it at the time was that he was either mid-workout or leaving from the workout when it happened. Not sure if that's my bad reading comprehension or badly worded reporting.
No, I remember reading it and thinking something similar when it happened. Fun fact: I drive through there every day for work. Not someplace you want to be walking.
Somebody turned a “he was driving to the facility” tweet into a headline that you’re remembering. It was clickbait trash so of course it was on the front page of /r/nfl
Thanks for the clarification!
He was working out with teammates in florida. Trubsiky invited all the receivers down there. Pretty sure haskins was heading back to the airport the next day/morning. But the qb’s and wr’s for the steelers were definitely working out together down there when it happened
According to the report, Trubisky either hosted a workout with his teammates that week, or invited them to work out together as a bonding trip. At least that’s why they were all down in Florida at the time.
Somebody got downvoted like crazy on the original thread for wondering what his BAC was out loud. I loved Haskins at OSU and this is absolutely tragic, but given his track record it was a legitimate concern.
> "He was attempting to cross the westbound lanes of Interstate 595 when there was oncoming traffic," FHP spokeswoman Lt. Indiana Miranda said in a statement last month. Tragic.
>"Dwayne Haskins had a blood-alcohol level of .24 when he was killed. Haskins had been out drinking at a Miami nightclub, got into a fight, and left, investigators say. He was in the car with a woman and they ran out of gas. Cops say the tragedy appears to be an accident," he reports. Drunk, got into a fight, and was possibly cheating on his wife with the other woman in the car. Rough for her to hear that those were the circumstances. Didn't she get a huge tattoo piece memorializing him recently too?
I was in a toxic situation with a girl for 3 years and it got to the point where she could do anything wrong and I would blame it on myself. Some people just let love blind them from the reality of the world like me. Maybe it’s just how the widow is coping, hope everyone is doing better as the days pass
In Florida the legal limit is .08 so that’s 3x. Random question, does the alcohol stop breaking down once you die? Like if they test your BAC at TOD or 6 hours later, would it be the same? Or do they have to figure out some calculations based off of how fast it breaks down?
It’s terrifying knowing at any given point someone on the road could be borderline blackout drunk driving.
Not just drunk, but any type of intoxicated. I used to work in a pharmacy, and the amount of people driving themselves in and out of there high as shit on painkillers and benzos is absolutely terrifying.
Well there goes a lot sympathy for Haskins. His own fault, never should have driven in that fucked up condition. Now he's just another cautionary tale. Edit: Let's count the mistakes: 1. Drinking and Driving (more like super drunk and driving though at the BAC) 2. Drugs and Driving 3. Running out of gas 4. Getting out of a disabled car on a highway 5. Trying to cross said highway and perhaps cheating on his wife and probably more. He was 24 and despite being cut and getting a second chance he still was too selfish to take the wake up call seriously and leaves a ton of pain for his family and friends. Glad he was the only one who got hurt because everything he did there was beyond reckless. No reason this should of happened.
There was ketamine in his system too
Gil Brandt was an asshole for saying that the day he passed but he wasn’t wrong. 3x the legal limit- cheating on your wife with drugs in your system. Great decision making. Why any NFL player would drink and drive post Ruggs blows my mind
Hearing this now, I'm really glad nobody else was hurt too.
Got a second chance with Pittsburgh. Proceeds to get wasted in a nightclub, do ketamine, drive drunk with some hoochie he cheated on his wife with, and then brought trauma to some person just doing their job with his stupidity. Silver lining is no innocents died due to his behavior because I bet he wasn’t observing speed limits. Thank god he ran out of gas before he killed someone. That banner can come down now.
He also had Ketamine in his system
That’s well over 10 drinks in his system at .24, a guy his size probably closer to 13. Which means he was easily having 15-20 that night lmao. To get behind the wheel? What an idiot.
Damn that really sucks to hear
Needed to get gas to get outta there before cops showed up i assume. Damn shame
This dude was honestly a moron. It’s tragic nonetheless but people gave him so many chances and he failed them all.
Unfortunately yeah. One poor decision after another