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North Carolina is a checkpoint state – the constitution allows police to set up a checkpoint to stop drivers and ask if they’ve been drinking. It’s not hard to figure out where they are – websites and social media feeds broadcast their location so drivers never need to be surprised by them. In some states …
A lot has happened this year. And if you care about drunk driving, you had a lot to think about. At Monitech we’ve been thinking about it too. We’ve been thinking about all the unintended consequences of drunk driving. And how things like a lack of sleep can cause students to drive drunk, and why …
Not much shopping time left before Christmas. If you’re still looking for gifts for your friends, and the Bluetooth-enabled coffee cup doesn’t grab you, here’s one to consider: give them the gift of a designated driver. Specifically, a gift certificate good for one sober ride home after a night of partying. This gift has a …
With over 2 million vehicles registered in Arizona, the chance that a drunk driver in one car will collide with another vehicle are pretty good. But what are the chances that a drunk driver would hit a patrol car – there are not that many of those, comparatively speaking. Nevertheless, it happens more often than …
A couple of days ago we gave you the bad news: DUI arrests were up over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend in Arizona. But there’s some good news too: overall, Arizona drunk driving arrests are down. The director of the Arizona Governor’s Office of Highway Safety, Alberto Gutier, gives some of the credit to Uber, Lyft, …
The reason governments compile numbers on every conceivable facet of public life is to answer the perennial question, “How are we doing?” On the question of holiday drunk driving, Arizona can answer, “Not too well, thank you.” A recent report by the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety found that arrests for DUI on Thanksgiving weekend are …
Thanksgiving, among other things, means it’s almost December, and in much of the country, it’s pretty cold. Advisories are out there about snow, ice, rain, and the need for caution on the road. But there’s another kind of slip that could result in a collision this Thanksgiving – a slip in your resolve not to …
Thanksgiving is considered a long weekend holiday. But it’s also the beginning of a season that is anything but festive: the DUI season. Thanksgiving drunk driving is well-known to police. And it doesn’t stop there – arrests tend to stay elevated from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day. The reasons for this increase aren’t hard to …
