Of course then there was the accident that killed my Senior class president a year after we graduated.....
His daddy was a supervisor in the local barracks, he always decided what was good write ups and bad write ups before referring them to the court, so he always got his only son's tickets "dissappeared", being a small town we all knew he did it even up to and including the drunk driving statutes his kid broke before they toughened them up here.
Well, his son was drunk driving home from college with our senior class president in one seat and another guy i played baseball with in the backseat, being drunk and excessively speeding he almost made it home, he was in our fire Coverage area when his Mustang GT left the highway at 98MPH killing the tropper's son and our class president.
The doors came up, the trucks came out, the scene was ugly and Daddy showed up to be the investigating officer since he was on duty and did not realize it was his kids car.
Our fire chief summed it up perfectly for "father fix my ticket" .........
"Get him out of this one Trooper _____________!"
The Trooper retired soon after and every one except Mike and Mary Beth and himself lived happily ever after.