We now know that the at-first-unnamed woman was later identified as Cynthia Ann Ray, and that she was from the Bradford section of Haverhill, as was Bryant.
Ray was walking to her car in front of the barracks on Route 125 when Bryant’s pickup truck struck her and left her unconscious on the road. He then struck her parked vehicle and attempted to flee the scene.
Ray’s mother was in the parked vehicle. She ran for help at the barracks, and police were able to stop Bryant from reaching the highway.
In the meantime Ray was rushed by ambulance to a local hospital, then to Boston, where she died on Sunday night from her injuries.
It was also reported that according to the officer who arrested Bryant, his eyes were “glassy and bloodshot”, that he stuttered after being removed from the vehicle, that he failed three sobriety tests and that he admitted to having had “a few beers at a friend’s house” prior to the accident. Furthermore, Bryant appeared not to know that he even hit a pedestrian. “Did I hit somebody?” he told the officer.
How could a successful Massachusetts businessman and a father of four do something mostly attributed to irresponsible and inexperienced drivers in their early twenties?
And how could his friends had let him drive after his “few beers”? Bryant was clearly too drunk to drive, yet he still went on the road.
With that fatal mistake he took not only the life of the 30-year-old Cynthia Ray, but ruined two families – Cynthia’s and his own. Our sympathies go to the family of Cynthia Ray for their loss.
Bryant was arraigned at court on Monday and bail was set for $50,000 cash. He is due to appear back in court on January 4th, 2011.
Fatal Drunk Driving Accident Statistics
According to his lawyer, Bryant didn’t have a history of alcohol abuse or any mental illness, so this could have been a one-time mistake. Yet this only goes to show that even one-time drunk driving can lead to a tragic outcome for everyone involved.
Alcohol and driving do not mix, as NHTSA data for fatal drunk driving accidents shows. In 2009 alone, 334 people were killed in traffic accidents in Massachusetts. Of them, 108 fatalities were caused by drunken driving.
This means that 108 lives could have been spared if drivers did not engage in intoxicated driving.
We are sorry that Cynthia Ray will be among the drunk driving accident victims for 2010. Our prayers go out to her family.
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