“Francois Jouaux played just as hard as he worked, according to his family,” Jason Green reports for The Mercury News. “On Sunday, the longtime Apple software engineer was returning home from kitesurfing at Waddell Beach in Davenport when a suspected drunken driver crossed the double-yellow line on La Honda Road and hit him head-on. Jouaux, 46, of Woodside, died at the scene.”
“‘Whenever the weekend came, he didn’t just sit in front of the computer or read a book,’ said his wife, Arancha Jouaux. ‘He would just go out and have fun but in a happy way.’ Francois and Arancha met at a Mountain View restaurant in 1991, not long after they both arrived in the Bay Area to attend Stanford University. He was from France, and she from Spain,” Green reports. “They started dating in 1993 and were married in 2004. They have two boys, ages 9 and 12. ‘He was a very good person, a wonderful father,’ Arancha said.”
“Francois worked more than 20 years at Apple, most recently as a manager of a team within the maps group, his wife said,” Green reports. “On Monday, Tom Doane, 46, of El Granada, the driver of the Ford F-250 that hit Jouaux’s 1992 Honda, was arrested on suspicion of felony hit and run and vehicular manslaughter when he went to a Redwood City hospital to be treated for major hand injuries, according to the CHP,” Green reports. “Witnesses said Doane appeared intoxicated at the time of the crash. Doane was still in the hospital as of Wednesday morning, said CHP Officer Art Montiel.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Tragic.
Anyone with information about the collision can call California Highway Patrol Officer Jason Thinnes at 650-369-6261.
Horrible! Horrible!
My heart breaks for his family and his loved ones.
Some things will never make sense.
In this case, it makes perfect sense. the guy was allegedly punk while driving a massive F-250 pickup. Small wonder that the collision killed the innocent guy. My oldest sister was killed when a drunk driver coming down a mountain rounded a curve on the wrong side of the road at high speed and crushed her Honda Civic in a head-on collision. Her Civic ended up about six feet long and it took hours to get her out of the car. She was, amazingly enough, alive…except for her brain. My parents had to take her off of life support. I was only twelve, which was probably a good thing, because if I had been an adult I might have gone to jail for taking the guy out. He was so drunk that he did not remember the collision and denied that he was at fault. I do not recall his exact sentence, but it was a slap on the wrist.
These collisions are *not* accidents. They are vehicular manslaughter a resulting from criminal stupidity and lack of respect for the welfare of others. I feel no remorse at all when I say that the drunk driver should die in every such case, and I wish those that live an existence haunted by guilt while serving a long jail sentence. Accidents happen. Drunk driving happens by choice.
The thing which does 🅝🅞🅣 make sense is the answer to the question, “Why?” “Why did this happen?”
There is no acceptable answer.…
You do not just “happen to get drunk”. So I agree completely it is a choice. One chooses to have a drink. One is not incapasitated at THAT moment. So one deliberately drinks # 1 and then 2 etc. If one knows no limit once starting drinking, then do not fscking start!
So sorry about your Sister, Bro.
Impaired people behind the wheel, shame. These people have no respect for others. Call a friend, call a cab, please.
…and, if you spot a driver whom you suspect is drunk, call the police and report them!
Amen!!
R.I.P sir. Life is so short. Give your love today cause tomorrow may never come.
I hope his family has strong support through this trying time.
This is terrible. They should outlaw drunk driving.
In 20 years, many cities likely will have a network of self-driving cars. In such a world, the concept of “drunk driving” will seem like a long ago occurrence, just as we have forgotten about runaway horse carriages from 100 years ago . . . ironically, this man’s co-workers at Apple will be the one’s developing this future system of cars . . . sorry that he won’t be there to see it happen.
I’ll pass on being treated like cattle by control freaks.
Throughout history alcohol has been one of the biggest causes of heartache we have ever known.
No, abuse of alcohol. Abuse of any substance is likely to cause harm. It’s not the substance, it’s the user or abuser. Just because alcohol abuse causes disease doesn’t make alcoholism a disease. Drinking too much water can kill a person, but no one regulates water consumption or discusses the hazards of drinking water.
There should be a national law that if you get caught drunk driving your license is lost for life. One chance, that’s it. So simple and this wonderful innocent guy might be alive.