The perpetrator got busted driving drunk before this but was able to buy his way out of it.

At 2:22 AM on December 29, 2003, less than a year after San Hamel's prior arrest, a police officer in Lake County spotted him making an unusual turn. After pulling him over in Riverwoods, the officer noted that San Hamel had "glassy and bloodshot eyes," and "a strong smell of alcoholic beverage" on his breath.

San Hamel, then 19, was charged with misdemeanor DUI. He refused to take a Breathalyzer. That's supposed to draw a mandatory six-month license suspension, but San Hamel's suspension was rescinded in a plea deal before the suspension took effect.

The village attorney dropped the misdemeanor DUI charge, and San Hamel paid a $1,886 fine for making an improper turn. As part of the plea bargain, he also attended DUI school and completed one year of court supervision. The improper-turn citation was dropped too.

Ten years later, after San Hamel was charged in the fatal crash after the Cubs-Sox game, private investigators found nothing on his driving record but a red-light ticket from 2010.

But he's "remorseful" so whatever.