Renowned radio DJ Big Boy was the victim of a car crash on Tuesday morning. While he is thankfully safe and sound, some additional drama has unfolded in relation to the drunk driver who hit him.
A videographer on the scene captured footage of the aftermath following the crash in Calabasas, California.
PLEASE don’t drink and drive.
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I am ok. In the twinkling of an eye your life can change. I’m here another day to raise my kids, love my wife and family and love you ALL. Real talk, it could have been worse.
I can’t believe what I was seeing. He was still on the bottle. pic.twitter.com/J844Mqncyl— Big Boy (@BigBoy) August 22, 2018
“Real talk, it could have been worse,” the longtime DJ tweeted. “I can’t believe what I was seeing. He was still on the bottle. He has a problem and I pray for him as well.”
Little did Big Boy know at the time, but the drunk driver was Los Angeles prosecutor Michael Kenneth Pettersen. As the Los Angeles Times reports, Pettersen has been on leave from the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office since January 2017, according to spokeswoman Shiara Davila-Morales.
It's unclear why the 54-year-old prosecutor was on leave, but he does have a record of driving under the influence. He had one DUI charge in 2014 and another charge involving driving with a suspended license in 2016. Pettersen has pleaded not guilty to both charges.
TMZ first revealed the identity of the drunk driver to a visibly shocked Big Boy.
"I'm going to keep it one-thousand with you. Before your cameras got there, before the sheriff got there, I tried to attack him," Big Boy said. "And that was just one of them things where, when I got out of the car and saw how intoxicated he was, I was like, 'Man, this man is trying to keep me from going home to my family!' you know what I'm sayin'? And I'm a man first! So, when I went at him, my buddy Jose and two other gentleman stopped me. And I'm glad they did because that would've became the story and that would've been on my karma and so on and so forth."
True story. Had Big Boy actually been successful in his instinctual attempt to attack, a lot of outlets would've spun an entirely different narrative. And we all know why.
Pettersen was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.
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