Car mows down Times Square pedestrians, killing 1, injuring 22

No doubt there's some mental illness involved but this is just gobsmacking:

"Rojas had been arrested at least twice previously for driving while intoxicated, once in 2008 and once in 2015, police said. He pleaded guilty to an infraction in 2015 and was ordered to complete a drunken driving program and lost his license for 90 days."

90 whole days.

Drunk driving kills more people in the US than terrorism.

Quote: "Investigators were searching his Bronx home and canvassing the crime scene for video. Rojas enlisted in the Navy in 2011 and was an electrician's mate fireman apprentice, according to the Navy. He was most recently based at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville, Florida, and was discharged in 2014. He wasn't immediately available to comment."

Ya think? Maybe after the alcohol has worn off.

Been reported he wanted to kill people and then be killed himself.

Cars don't kill people, people do.  Terrible to see how easy it is to inflict such pain and sorrow on random folks.

Cars don't kill people, people do. 

I agree that drivers need to be held accountable for their actions behind the wheel more often, but it is also true that many times an "accident" really is just an accident.

The common factor, however, is always the car. If the car is removed from the equation people won`t die.

This is why pedestrians and people using bikes in crowded urban areas need to be separated from motor vehicle traffic, and why, wherever possible, there needs to be more car-free, pedestrian only streets(like they now have on parts of Broadway in Times Square.)

"Drunk driving kills more people in the US than terrorism."

Drunk driving kills and injures more people in the US EACH YEAR than have EVER died in terrorist attacks on US soil.

I don't know if that is true, but anyone want to stand up tall and challenge me on that?

You know, it seems close... could be true. But honestly, I would be that drunk driving deaths have been inching downward over the last 20 years. You just don't get the carnage from drunk drivers that you used to be able to count on.

I helped prosecute a drunk driver who came through our neighborhood in a Range Rover a few years back. He apparently fell asleep and woke up suddenly, panicked, hit a barrier on the left side of the road, veered all the way around a bus stop structure on the right side of the road, took out a hedge on the left side of the road, and hit a tree head-on. I HEARD the crash from a block away, and it was amazing. When I got to the scene, the guy was picking up pieces of his car and saying, "I'm so sorry." over and over. Then he tried to get back in his car and drive away. Forget that... I called the cops and they came and took the guy away. The one other guy who bothered to come and see if the guy was ok just left because he did not want to get involved.

The guy was blotto. Delirious. At 3 am. I hope he did not fight the prosecution. If he had gone another 100 meters or so, he would have hit a dead-man's curve going downhill at about 70 kph or so. And if that would not have sent him over a cliff, then I bet he would not have made the bridge after the curve, and he would have plunged into a river anyway. He was lucky. He killed nobody and did not even kill himself.

This guy in Times Square? Just a drunk. Drug addict. It is so nice to live in a society free enough that dumb people can kill one or thirty people for no reason whatsoever, isn't it? Enjoy your happy hour and thin the herd. It is a terrible shame, but alcohol is a terrible drug.

He could be DUI under anything.  They were testing him for w/e he may have put in his system.   The bouncer that tackled him first stated he didn't smell any alcohol.   So either he may have been under the influence of something else.   Have to wait and see.

For any event such as this, be it Terrorism or otherwise, one has to think about those impacted - were it your own family members involved, things would be rather chaotic.

I hope those impacted, get the support they need now, and afterwards without financial loss to themselves and/or their Families that may be dependent upon them....