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This story doesn’t take place in the U.S., or even North America. It’s from Prague in the Czech Republic, where recently a police officer had too much to drink and got behind the wheel of a Jeep Cherokee. Before he was apprehended by colleagues, he managed to crash his SUV into 51 parked cars. Clearly …
It’s one thing to claim that a device stops drunk drivers. It’s another thing to come up with real numbers that show the device works. Recently Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) did just that. In a recent report they tallied up just how many times ignition interlocks stopped people in each state from driving drunk. …
Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is known primarily for its advocacy of the cause of sober driving. It also aids and counsels drunk driving victims and their families. And the organization has a third function: to honor those who have made the roads safer across the country. Last month MADD took the opportunity to hail the heroes …
Statistics are an important part of how we think of drunk driving. Numbers are the way we choose to make our case. In Arizona, for example, some two hundred people die each year because of alcohol-impaired driving. That’s a quarter of all driving fatalities. Seventy-five percent of those had a blood alcohol concentration of .015 …
If you play or follow golf, you know how important drivers are: they get the ball going the farthest. At the Waste Management Phoenix Open, police are going to be concentrating on drivers of a different type: the intoxicated ones that leave the event to make their way home by car, endangering themselves and everyone …
It’s a true California story: wine, tourists, sunshine, and the Pacific Coast Highway. Recently an Arizona couple went on a wine tour through Sonoma County, sampling vintages at several wineries and then getting back on Highway 101. Witnesses saw the car veer into the oncoming lane and then onto the shoulder. The car pulled over …
What ever happened to drunk driving in Arizona? Okay , that’s an exaggeration. A couple of thousand drivers are still arrested each month for driving under the influence, but it’s fewer than last year, which was fewer than the year before, and so on since 2012. What’s going on? First the numbers. According to statistics …
Two things you can count on during the holidays in Arizona: People will be driving under the influence Police will be making an extra effort to catch people driving under the influence Last Tuesday law enforcement officials gathered at the State Capitol to announce a DUI crackdown. To drive home the point that drunk …
