Alcohol and the Charlie Davies / Ashley Roberta Crash

It sounds like everyone is assuming there was some drunk driving going on in the crash that killed Ashley Roberta Tuesday morning, and seriously injured U.S. soccer player Charlie Davies, along with one other unidentified person. It was 3:15 in the morning, it wasn’t a very difficult stretch of road, and the SUV they were driving was split in half. You have to be doing something seriously wrong with your driving to split a car in half, especially with no other vehicles involved in the accident.

If you search around on Ashley Roberta for a little while, you discover a few things. The first is that she was extremely pretty. Another is her Twitter page, which she used a few times at the beginning of the year and hasn’t updated since April.

But her last Twitter update, from April 26th, is this:

blame it on the a-a-a alcohol. i hate to admit it, but sometimes, i just have to.

Wow. If it turns out that alcohol was a factor in this car crash, and especially if Ashley was driving the car at the time, you can bet people will be all over that Twitter post.

And for those of us who don’t know anything about Ashley, the celebrities that she’s following on Twitter can give you an idea of who she was. She was following Britney Spears, John McCain, and Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em (yes, his full name is Soulja Boy Tell ‘Em — his music is even worse than you’d expect from someone with a name like that.)

I offer no judgments of Ms. Roberta based on who she followed on Twitter. I’m just leaving that list there.

Best of wishes to Charlie Davies, his family, and the U.S. Men’s National Soccer Team. The reports so far are that his injuries aren’t life-threatening, but it sounds very likely that this accident may end his soccer career.