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2016 has gotten some bad press, for good reasons. Celebrity deaths, Zika, political upheavals, clowns… all in all, we preferred 2015, and most other years. One statistic that marks the year as a sad one was motor vehicle deaths – 2016 was probably the deadliest year since 2007, with around 40,000 road deaths. Which doesn’t …
Imagine if every person in Phoenix, Tucson and Scottsdale took to the road drunk — 2.3 million people, each under the influence of alcohol. It would be a pretty horrific scenario. It isn’t going to happen, but it almost happened, in a way, in slow motion. Over the past 10 years 2.3 million people tried to …
What’s going on, people? You were alerted. Before St. Patrick’s Day announcements went out proclaiming that police departments everywhere were cracking down in drunk drivers. Patrols would be out looking for anyone who showed signs of impairment. Enforcement was massive and coordinated: DUI checkpoints, saturation patrols, and other types of enhanced enforcement helped round up drivers …
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Wrong-way drivers are one of the most lethal results of drunk driving. It’s just a wrong turn or a sign ignored, but in seconds you will see cars scatter and swerve. You’ll hear horns blare and too often then the crunch of metal on metal. It’s …
This story has everything – or at least, everything that has come to typify our offbeat drunk driving stories. See if we’ve missed any elements. Sports figure. The story concerns David Parry, defensive lineman for the Indianapolis Colts, who was recently arrested in Scottsdale. According to the NFL Player Arrest database maintained by USA Today, …
Most of us love donuts, but we consider them a guilty pleasure, not a device for saving lives. But recently MADD partnered up with Dunkin’ Donuts in Arizona to rally the latter’s circular pastries to the cause of ending drunk driving. And it worked. On February 28th public-safety-minded and donut-minded citizens of Arizona could purchase …
All right. Let’s see what we can learn from this one. Arizona troopers last week got a report of a rollover near 56th Street in Phoenix. They arrived and found the crashed truck – but no driver. It didn’t take long to locate the one responsible for the rollover. A man fell out of a …
It never ends well, but some people try it anyway. After an Arizona DUI, an ignition interlock device is mandatory. Most people get with the program and drive responsibly, but a few think they can bypass an ignition interlock, which prevents a vehicle from starting if the driver has been drinking. A woman in Phoenix …
