Intoxication related offenses can add insult to injury.   If you have been drinking, do not expect sympathy from the police. Intoxication assault and intoxication manslaughter result when someone who is driving while intoxicated has an accident in which someone is seriously injured or killed.  The accident does not have to be the fault of the DWI driver for him to be guilty of this offense.  However, in every intoxication assault and intoxication manslaughter case the prosecutor must first prove a DWI.

From the beginning contact which a suspect has with police after this kind of accident it is imperative that the driver say nothing to the police officer.   He must remain silent.  Making any kind of statement or agreeing to blood or breathe tests will land you in prison!  Contact a DWI lawyer on your cell phone, immediately.  If the police officer will not allow you to make that call, remain silent!

People experience a range of emotions during these events, but while assisting the injured, and obtaining medical attention for them, you must not make any statements which will implicate you as the one who is at fault or the one who is intoxicated.  Feelings of guilt and sympathy are natural and normal, but one should not allow these feelings to cause him or her to make spontaneous or voluntary admissions of guilt.  Cooperation with the injured and the police does not mean you must convict yourself. Do not agree to blood tests.  Do not do field sobriety tests.  Do not make statements about drinking.  If the officer smells alcohol on your breath during the investigation, you are going to be arrested. Nothing you say or do will prevent that.  Do not make matters worse by convicting yourself out of your own mouth.  You have a right to remain silent.