Come on everyone here, don't be holier-than-thou. Yes he did a bad thing and yes he will have to man up and take the consequences, but its hardly something unheard of.
I love it how everyone goes: "he had his wife with him, OMG!". Yeah he was partying, having a good time with his loved one. Would it have been safer to take a prostitute? You know, just in case she isn't wearing her seat belt...
And to the chileans who are on his ass with the argument - 'this shit doesn't happen in europe'. Uhh, actually it does A LOT. But it's one of those things big clubs do for their players... Society doesn't like it but its a fact - if you are driving constantly a car that has 500 bhp more than the average, accidents are more likely. Rich and young people tend to drive a lot of those cars, yet most of them don't make it to the court or papers in Europe and other places too.