WORCESTER (MA)
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May 7, 2013
Posted by Luke Hill
Worcester, Massachusetts, Bishop Robert McManus was arrested Saturday night at his family’s vacation home in Naragansett, Rhode Island, on charges of drunken driving, leaving the scene of an accident, and refusing a chemical test.
“I made a terrible error in judgment by driving after having consumed alcohol with dinner,” McManus said in a statement. “There is no excuse for the mistake I made, only a commitment to make amends and accept the consequences of my action.”
That’s all well and good…as far as it goes. I don’t want to make more of this relatively straightforward DUI incident than necessary, but Bishop McManus’s terrible error in judgment extended beyond driving while intoxicated. It also included his decision to flee the scene of the crime after, apparently, causing the accident by rear-ending the other driver’s car. (A neighbor “noticed minor front end damage to McManus’s dark-colored Honda Accord the following morning.”)
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