DUI Law News

South Dakota Woman Sets State Blood Alcohol Content Record

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Tuesday, January 19th 2010 at 12:04am

A South Dakota woman received a dubious honor in December when she doubled the state’s previous record for blood alcohol content. On Dec. 1 of last year, state troopers found Marguerite Engle passed out in the driver?s seat of a stolen van on the side of a highway. Engle, 45, was found to have a shocking .708 [...]
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St. Cloud Woman Arrested for DWI with Infant

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Tuesday, January 12th 2010 at 6:04pm

A woman in St. Cloud, Minn. was arrested over the weekend on suspicion of hitting a pedestrian with her car while in a parking lot, according to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press. The woman was allegedly driving drunk, and had an infant in the car with her. Police were dispatched for a verbal disturbance, which escalated to [...]
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Orange County Teenager Suspected of Felony DUI

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Saturday, January 9th 2010 at 12:04pm

After a single-vehicle drunk driving crash that sent one man to a trauma center with severe injuries, an 18-year-old was arrested on suspicion of felony DUI. Danielle Everman of Fountain Valley, Calif. was arrested in December after she crashed her Ford Explorer into a guard rail, severely injuring her passenger, 20-year-old Jacob Dearman. According to a police [...]
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DUI Laws: New York Gets Strict

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Thursday, January 7th 2010 at 6:04pm

Last year, New York state saw about 12,000 DUI-related deaths, according to local CBS news. As a result, the state has recently enacted strict new DUI laws to help decrease the number of fatal accidents. State Governor David Patterson signed the Child Passenger Protection Act, which outlines some of the toughest DUI laws in the country [...]
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Colorado Springs Crime Lab Botched BAC Tests

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Monday, January 4th 2010 at 6:04pm

The Associated Press is reporting that hundreds of DUI cases could be impacted by the flawed results of blood-alcohol tests coming out of an area crime lab. According to law enforcement, at least 82 blood tests since January 2009 have registered higher blood-alcohol contents than they should have. These flawed tests were exposed as a result [...]
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Did You Get Killed Because You Drove Drunk? Should?ve Signed This Contract

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Wednesday, December 30th 2009 at 6:04pm

Stop and think before you get behind the wheel on New Year’s Eve. This is the motto of one Georgia funeral home – a family business that has been running Operation Stop and Think for the past 10 years. According to a CNN report, McGuire, Jennings and Miller Funeral Home in Rome, Ga. has been offering a [...]
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DUI Fines Pay for New Cruisers, Breathalyzers

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Monday, December 28th 2009 at 6:04pm

If you’re drinking and driving in the state of Illinois this holiday season, keep this in mind: When pulled over for DUI, the money you pay in fines will go in part to funding new cop cars and updated breathalyzer machines. According to a report from the Illinois News Tribune, as much as 20 percent of [...]
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Total DUI?s Top 10 DUIs of the Decade

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Friday, December 18th 2009 at 6:04pm

The first decade of the new millennium came in with a bang – everyone was freaked out about Y2K, and ringing in the year 2000 might have been the biggest party Times Square has ever seen. Along with all the fun to be had in the 2000s, there was also many-a-busted celebrity found to be “under [...]
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Taxi Vouchers for the Holidays ? Helping Curb DUIs?

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Tuesday, December 15th 2009 at 12:04am

A charity group based in Beverly Hills – the Lev Foundation – has a printable voucher for a $10 cab ride posted on its Web site. The vouchers will be available through the month of December. According to an Associated Press article, the Lev Foundation was created last year by the friends and family of 25-year-old [...]
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DUI Fatality Rate Has Fallen!

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Wednesday, December 9th 2009 at 6:04pm

According to the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, the number of deaths caused by drunk driving decreased by seven percent between 2007 and 2008. The number of deaths in 2007 was 13,041 and in 2008 it was recorded at 11,773, which is 1,268 fewer deaths than the previous year. This recent decrease mirrors a trend that [...]
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DUI While Asleep in a Buggy

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Wednesday, December 9th 2009 at 6:04pm

An Amish man was arrested for DUI when he was discovered sleeping ‘behind the wheel’ of a moving buggy, according to an Associated Press report. The horse was spotted pulling the buggy at a slow walking pace in the middle of the road on Sunday night. Police discovered a 22-year-old man asleep in the driver’s seat of [...]
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A Day of DUIs on Washington?s Whidbey Island

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Tuesday, December 1st 2009 at 6:04pm

In Oak Harbor, Wash., a small community off the coast of Washington on Whidbey Island, two bizarre incidents occurred on the same day, both allegedly involving driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. The first accident involved a 22-year-old woman who was driving her Volkswagen Beetle on Midway Boulevard, a road that travels directly toward [...]
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Hey Sonic Employee? I Mean, Officer. Oops.

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Friday, November 27th 2009 at 6:04pm

In DUI-related news, it seems that a good number of strange stories tend come out of the woodwork. Poor decisions have a tendency to lead to more poor decisions, and sometimes the results can be pretty weird. The variety of odd cases is remarkable, from a motorized recliner and a self-propelled barstool to a man charged with [...]
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Driving Under ?The Hills? Influence: Stephanie Pratt Busted for DUI

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Tuesday, November 24th 2009 at 12:04pm

The newest reality celebrity to join the DUI arrest list was ?The Hills? cast member, Stephanie Pratt. According to a CNN article, Pratt was arrested last month for a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence while on the way home from a Hollywood nightclub. Earlier in the evening, Pratt attended fellow cast member Holly Montag?s birthday [...]
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Bar Owners Annoyed by DUI Checkpoints in Florida

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Friday, November 20th 2009 at 12:04pm

When it comes to DUI, police are concerned primarily with the safety of drivers. However, when that goal starts to impinge upon the interests of local bars and restaurants that depend upon a steady flow of happy customers, a compromise might be in order. Just such a situation has arisen in the city of Cape Coral, [...]
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10th Time Is Not a Charm: Illinois Man Charged with His 10th DUI

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Tuesday, November 17th 2009 at 6:04pm

Richard Niemczyk, a resident of Hanover Park, Ill., was recently arrested for and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, according to The Courier-News. The DUI charge was Niemczyk?s tenth such charge since 1991. Niemczyk was arrested following an Oct. 21 incident at a local business, where a store employee reported to police that Niemczyk was [...]
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Man Pleads Guilty to Drunk Driving in His La-Z-Boy

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Saturday, November 14th 2009 at 6:04pm

There are many strange stories involving driving under the influence. Some are tragic, changing the lives of those involved, while others, like a recent story out of Minnesota, simply boggle the mind. In the town of Proctor, Minn., a man was stopped for driving drunk after he collided with a parked car, according to the Duluth News [...]
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Pennsylvania Woman Jailed As a Result of a Deadly DUI

Source: blog.totaldui.com Posted: Thursday, November 12th 2009 at 6:04pm

A recent Pennsylvania court case further proves that driving under the influence can have a profound impact on an individual?s life. We all know that celebrity DUI arrests make headlines, but too often it is the ordinary citizen whose life takes a wrong turn as a result of an error in judgment. Not to mention, of [...]
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22,000 Indians Are Driving Japan?s IT Industry

Source: technorati.com Posted: Tuesday, November 10th 2009 at 12:04pm

Japan's IT industry is increasingly Indian-driven
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