Because the car didn’t have a backseat, Razzle was holding all the alcohol in his lap. So, he and Dingley got into the car and they made it to the liquor store safely where they bought hundreds of dollars’ worth of alcohol before heading back to Neil’s house. “I’d been driving drunk for about as long as I’d been driving. “We’d drive the four blocks to the store, get some supplies, be back home in a flash,” he wrote. He claimed he didn’t see a problem with his state of mind. He had just bought a new car, a bright red vintage ‘72 Ford De Tomaso Pantera, which he was excited to drive. “I could have walked there, but I’d been partying for three straight days, you know - walking there was out of the question, too much reality to deal with, if you know what I mean,” Neil wrote. So, around dusk, Dingley and Neil decided to go for a booze run to the liquor store, located just four blocks away. During the third day, despite the “seemingly never-dwindling pile of coke,” they ran out of alcohol. On December 8, Neil was having a party with some friends in the apartment, a party he wrote lasted for days. In Neil’s 2010 book, “Tattoos & Tequila: To Hell and Back with One of Rock's Most Notorious Frontmen,” he described the incident. He only served 15 days of his 30 day sentence. Two years after the crash, Neil was sentenced to 30 days in jail, 200 hours of community service, and to pay $2.6 million in restitution to the victims of the crash. Neil’s blood alcohol level was 0.17, well above the limit.
Vince Neil, Mötley Crüe’s lead vocalist, has been arrested and convicted of multiple crimes, but none as tragic as his manslaughter conviction for killing his friend Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley, drummer of the Finnish band Hanoi Rocks, in a drunk driving accident in 1984. This shocking and sad aspect of Mötley Crüe's story is chronicled in “The Dirt,” the biographical drama film about them which began streaming earlier this year on Netflix.
That’s f-ed up.Mötley Crüe is one of the most iconic metal bands of all time, but the band's path toward fame wasn't always an easy one - there was some extremely dark moments during their rock days, including when the lead singer accidentally killed someone.
But I did 30 days in jail and got laid and drank beer because that’s the power of cash. Two decades later, Neil - who was released from his 30-day jail sentence for the incident 10 days early for good behavior - expressed remorse and admitted that he got off too easy for driving under the influence, telling Blender (via OpposingViews), “I wrote a $2.5 million check for vehicular manslaughter when Razzle died. The singer, entered the plea after the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office agreed not to seek a prison term for Wharton, provided he does community service while on probation and makes restitution to the surviving victims and to the dead musician’s family Vince Neil was taken to a police station where he was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and “vehicular manslaughter,” but was then released on bail for $2,500. His blood alcohol level was reportedly 0.17, which was way above the legal limit of 0.10 at the time
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The driver of the third vehicle was thankfully uninjured. Lisa Hogan’s passenger, 20-year-old Daniel Smithers, suffered a broken leg and some brain damage. Brain damage, meanwhile, left her liable to psychomotor seizures. The driver of one of them, 18-year-old Lisa Hogan, who was rushed in a critical condition to the intensive care unit of the Little Company of Mary Hospital, where she remained in a coma for about a month with a broken arm and two broken legs. In more detail…Neil’s Ford Pantera careered into the path of oncoming traffic and was struck by two other cars. All involved sustained injuries, but Razzle was less fortunate. Vince Neil escaped serious injury but Razzle was pronounced dead on arrival at Redondo’s South Bay Hospital at 07:12 local time. Neil lost control of the vehicle and smashed into another car. His car went into the path of oncoming traffic and was hit by another car, whose inhabitants were left injured and with brain damage. As the car made its way around a winding Hollywood road, While speeding and driving drunk, Neil lost control of his car and swerved around a stationary fire truck at 65mph in a 25 mph speed zone. tour when Neil and Razzle - both of whom reportedly had already been drinking - decided to make a run to the liquor store. The two bands were at a party ( Vince Neil home in Redondo Beach CA.) given in honour of the Finnish band’s first U.S.
Razzle became the drummer of Finnish glam rock band Hanoi Rocks from 1982, where he was known by his stage name Razzle. Born Nicholas Dingley, he was a passenger in a car driven by Motley Crue’s Vince Neil. Hanoi Rocks drummer Razzle was killed on Dec.
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