Even though punishment for drunk driving has become increasingly severe in the past couple of decades, the law does not seem to deter some people from sitting behind the wheel of their car when they clearly should not.

A young man suspected of drink driving a large Nissan pickup truck in Florida was filmed by the passenger of vehicle following from behind.

The video shows the truck driver veering into the opposite lane and causing a head-on collision with a Ford passenger car. The person holding the cell phone camera then chases down the passenger of the truck who allegedly tried to throw away a bottle of rum before being arrested by the police.

A more detailed description of the incident from YouTube poster and eyewitness ‘Jak3andBak3’ along with the video footage (be warned that it contains explicit language, so you may want to use headphones) follow right past the break.

Hat tip to Cristo R. for the Video tip!

From YouTube Poster ‘Jak3andBak3‘:

1. The silver truck struck two cars: the red car head on, and the white SUV that it clipped. The red car was waiting to turn left and probably had no time to move out of the way. The driver of the red car is the one laying on the ground and got a nasty cut on his head (there was about 30 seconds between the cut in the video, where bystanders used his shirt as a makeshift bandage on his head). Paramedics said he would be okay.

2. The occupants of the white SUV that got clipped were unharmed, mostly cosmetic damage to their vehicle.

3. The person who ran was NOT the driver, he was the passenger of the silver truck. We initially thought he was because we figured that’s why he was running; however, he was running to throw a bottle of rum away. We couldn’t find it because the person’s backyard where he threw it was like a jungle.

Thanks for all the views, and sorry for the bad camera work, douchebag florida accents/vocab, and flip flops!

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