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It’s Halloween, your chance to be someone you can’t normally be: Wonder Woman, Deadpool, Captain America, Catwoman…go ahead, indulge your fantasy. But consider being, at the same time, a superhero that doesn’t require a costume. You can be a Halloween designated driver at tonight’s party. No need to buy a costume, or duct-tape one together frantically …
In fixing drunk driving charges, most states make a distinction between run-of-the mill intoxicated and extremely drunk. The principle is that it’s worse to drive if the alcohol level is high enough to make a driver unable to control his or her vehicle at all. Some states use “drunk” and “super drunk.” Arizona, however, has …
Thousands of people visit bars in Scottsdale, Arizona every weekend. A staggering number of them will decide to drive home drunk. There will be some hard-core drunk drivers who haven’t yet been caught. A few newbies, too. But a lot of those drunk drivers won’t realize they’re too impaired to drive. They have a very …
Trying to make sense of road safety data can be a frustrating exercise. A new report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminstration (NHTSA), for instance, notes that road deaths in Arizona rose last year by more than 7 percent. The total number of fatalities was 962, up from 897 the year before. Cause for …
Arizona gives drivers with a drunk driving conviction the chance to regain their driving privileges with an ignition interlock – a device which prevents a vehicle from starting if the driver has been drinking. Most offenders do well in Arizona with the device: statistics show that ignition interlocks reduce recidivism, and most first-time DUI offenders …
Like many areas of the country, Pima County, in south central Arizona, is struggling with a drunk driving problem. But, like the state as a whole, it is determined and resourceful in its anti-DUI efforts. These efforts include strengthening – and decentralizing – DUI patrols. Up to now the Pima Sheriff’s Department ran its DUI …
We, of course, would never drive drunk. We don’t hold with drunk driving, and would not let our friends drive drunk either. But somehow, millions do just that. Millions? If that sounds extreme, you might be thinking of the 10,000 people who die each year as a result of impaired driving. But the number of …
What is the purpose of punishing a drunk driver? Often it’s rehabilitation – if an offender can see the recklessness of the decision to drink and drive, he or she might change and start to drive responsibly. For that reason, DUI sentences usually include an educational element – a DUI class, evaluation, or counseling. They …
