Star Athletes

America, on the whole, is pretty lousy when it comes to intoxicated driving. We're often shown as the bad example to countries like London and Spain and France, etc. Their rates of intoxicated driving and DWI - related crashes are much, much lower than ours.

You can chalk that up to smaller countries, less area to be required to drive, better public transportation, etc. However, this shows the U.K. certainly isn't immune to intoxicated driving. I hope this athlete's mistake will be seen and felt by the whole of the U.K.-because here in the States, we sure don't make any big ruckus when one of our star athletes does something like this (Case and point, Leonard Little.)

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McCormick Charged for Fatal Crash
AP
Posted: 2008-06-09 17:00:17
LONDON (June 9) - Plymouth Argyle goalkeeper Luke McCormick was released on bail Monday after facing in court the mother of two boys who died in a highway crash.

McCormick's Range Rover was involved in a collision with a Toyota Previa minivan about 5:45AM ET Saturday on the M6 highway in Staffordshire, central England.

At Fenton magistrates' court, McCormick heard charges of causing death by dangerous driving, driving with excess alcohol and driving without insurance.

McCormick was given seven days' conditional bail and will appear next Monday at Stoke Crown Court. He entered no plea.Inside the Stoke courtroom a weeping Amanda Peak clutched a photograph of her sons Arron Peak, 10, and Ben Peak, 8.

The dead boys' 37-year-old father sustained a suspected broken neck and back. Three other people in the same vehicle were unharmed.

The 24-year-old McCormick, a former England youth international, plays in English football's second-tier League Championship. He was not injured in the accident.