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These days some people in Tucson are partying on wheels – despite Arizona’s very tough laws about drinking and driving. This time it’s party bikes – long, pedicab-like vehicles that seat 14 passengers as well as a driver. All of the passengers have pedals as well. They sit seven-a-side along what is really a mobile …
You can’t say you weren’t warned. There were signs, TV and Radio ads, tweets, Facebook messages, t-shirts, flyers, electric message boards, and posters, all over Arizona, and all of them saying the same thing: Don’t Drink And Drive this Halloween. Somehow, 300 people still didn’t get the message. That’s how many people were picked up …
A law firm in Scottsdale is warning people that their business might increase next week – and that’s not a good thing. The Corso Law Group has issued a statement letting people know that drunk driving arrests skyrocket whenever Halloween falls on a weekend. This year the holiday falls on a Saturday, meaning that a …
A fatal crash in Raleigh has raised a question about public safety: if a location is particularly treacherous for drunk drivers, is the government obliged to erect safeguards? Tough call. On the one hand, the government is responsible for making roads and streets safe. On the other hand, drivers should not be drinking, and one …
“I’m drunk and I can drive good,” he said — after the crash. Not so good: back in July in West Phoenix 14-year-old Miguel Maldonado dashed through a red light and collided with an SUV and put three innocent people in the hospital – one of them a 3-year-old. It’s hard to find anything redeeming …
It’s an irony that chills the heart: Sgt. Maj. Jeremy Bruns survived nine deployments, including a number of tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, only to lose his legs and part of a hand because a drunk neighbor plowed into him and pinned him to his truck. He had been parked in front of his home, …
Time to look at the big picture. We’ve already mentioned the 300 Arizona drunk drivers who were arrested on the first two days of the Labor Day weekend. Now the totals are in. Bad news: Arizona police picked up 450 motorists for impaired driving this Labor Day weekend Good news: that’s 20 percent fewer than last …
The cars are unpacked, the grills back in the yard, the sleeping bags rolled up in the basement. Labor day is over, and Arizonans who were celebrating a few days ago are now back at work or at their daily routine. Except for about 300 of them. Those people will not be back into a …
