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Drinking and driving is not an equal-opportunity crime. While you can find pre-teen drunk drivers and ones in their 70s and 80s, young people – including college drinkers – are over-represented in those ranks. Most are in the 21 to 34 group. Impulsiveness, immaturity, a youthful feeling of invincibility and peer pressure combine to make …
No, the National Safety Council did not issue a report advising people to hide under a rock this weekend. But it did announce a trend that might make Labor Day 2016 the most dangerous one yet on the nation’s roads. The Council has discovered a worrying upward trend in road fatalities: up 9% from last …
Ask any authority about the top causes of car collisions – or road fatalities – and the same ones rise to the top. The order sometimes changes, but speeding, distracted driving, and drunk driving are always in the top four. As they probably were 50 years ago. Some recent research has found a link between …
A bottleneck in Pitt County’s DWI process has just been widened. A new blood alcohol test lab has opened up at the Pitt County Detention Center to handle blood samples from DWI suspects. The bottleneck was a serious one, with some tests delaying court cases by years. When delays cause cases to be dismissed, drunk …
Repeat DWI offenders are scary people. Once arrested, fined, and even jailed, they get back on the road despite the alcohol in their veins, and as a result they become extremely dangerous. Like many states, North Carolina has a repeat DWI problem that it hasn’t fully addressed. Each year alcohol takes the lives of around …
The purpose of DUI checkpoints, it seems, is to catch drunk drivers. Armed with a sure-fire method of detecting impairment – a breathalyzer – it would seem that a sobriety checkpoint would be an effective way to snag someone who is driving under the influence. Just set up shop somewhere unexpected, and bang! You’re busted. …
This article on Arizona DUI penalties comes from Gordon Thompson, a Phoenix DUI/DWI & Criminal Defense Attorney. It previously appeared on his firm’s blog. Arizona has what are probably the harshest Misdemeanor DUI sentencing penalties and laws in the country. A guide to a summary of those penalties are: 28 A.R.S. § 1381.A.1, Driving Under …
Drunk driving is an urgent problem in Arizona as it is in other states. Each year well over 200 people die in Arizona because someone made the bad decision to drink and drive. About a third of all traffic deaths in the state are alcohol-related. Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is dedicated to increasing awareness …
