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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 …
Police in Chandler, Arizona work hard to catch drunk drivers. That’s why, presumably, they find it galling that people arrested for DUI manage to escape the consequences. How do they escape? Some don’t show up for their court appearance. Others don’t follow the orders given by the court: do community service, install an ignition interlock, …
We’re the first to admit that having an ignition interlock takes a bit of getting used to, though the most advanced devices are designed to be accurate and easy to use. At the very least, you’re adding a new habit – the breath test – to the ritual of driving a car. Some people wonder …
In an effort to catch more drunk drivers, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department DWI Task Force is going incognito. All of its officers now drive unmarked police cars. The purpose of the change is obvious – to catch more impaired drivers. And so far, according to news reports, the method is working. Arrests are up. Are …
Too much vanilla extract can do more than give your custard an aftertaste. It can also give you a police record. Alcohol: Forbidden for Drivers, Mandatory for Vanilla Federal law states that vanilla extract must be at least 35 percent alcohol, and have 100 grams of vanilla beans per litre. 35 percent alcohol is 70 …
