Alabamians, who want to enjoy their drinks this holiday season, might want to think twice before they drive after those drinks. Your chances of being arrested for DUI in Alabama are likely to increase in the next few days as law enforcement activities across the state increase. The Alabama Law Enforcement and Traffic Safety Division [...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Illinois police, who arrived at the scene of a DUI accident involving an underage driver, were not expecting the teen’s explanation for the accident. By the time police arrived, the eighteen-year-old driver had driven her car into a ditch. Police found that she was extremely intoxicated, and also very angry. The reason for her intoxicated [...]
Monday, October 31, 2011
Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget director has been facing calls to resign after she was arrested for driving under the influence. Ana Matosantos says she has offered to resign, but Governor Jerry Brown has not accepted her offer. Matosantos, who serves as finance director in the Brown administration, was pulled over after California Highway Patrol officers [...]
Monday, June 13, 2011
A California lawmaker has proposed legislation which would set clear guidelines for the enforcement of sobriety checkpoints, including procedures for impounding vehicles. The proposal has been made by Santa Rosa Assemblyman Michael Allen. His proposal would require law enforcement officers at a sobriety checkpoint to allow an unlicensed person toallow a licensed driver to remove [...]
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Over the next few weeks, California’s college students will head for a much deserved break in an annual tradition known as Spring Break. Unfortunately, the break is almost synonymous with excessive and binge drinking, which often contributes to alcohol poisoning and drunk driving accidents. Teen motorists are already susceptible to drunk driving, because of factors [...]
Friday, February 4, 2011
The parents of an Alabama girl who was killed in an accident involving an intoxicated motorist in December have filed a civil lawsuit against the drunk driver. The girl was on her way to visit her grandmother, when a suspected intoxicated motorist crashed into the vehicle. The girl died, and the parents were seriously injured. [...]
Friday, October 8, 2010
The recent trial and conviction of Andrew Gallo for the murder of Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart confirms something that Los Angeles DUI lawyers have been worried about. More and more, prosecutors are charging intoxicated drivers with murder if the accident involved multiple fatalities, or even if the person simply had more than one DUI [...]
Friday, July 30, 2010
The numbers of motorists driving under the influence in California and around the country has dropped significantly over the past five years. Law enforcement agencies are now targeting a new category of motorists – those driving under the influence of prescription drugs. Last week, the New York Times ran a report on how the incidences [...]
Friday, April 2, 2010
The Concord Police Department has announced that it will conduct a revenue collection exercise, er, sobriety checkpoint this weekend. The checkpoint will last between 7:30 PM Saturday to 3:30 AM on Sunday. No locations have been made public. Motorists will be stopped at random, and officers will check for signs of intoxication.According to the Concord [...]
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
It isn’t everyday California DUI lawyers come across the former chief of a city’s Police Department being charged for driving under the influence. That is exactly what has happened in Riverside. Former police chief Russell Leach has been charged with driving under the influence. On February 8th, chief Leach crashed his city-issued car in the [...]
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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