Tag: Drunk Driving
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A Winning Message on Video:
College Drinking and DrivingWe take off our hats to U in the Driver Seat, a peer-to-peer program designed to raise awareness of the problem of impaired driving among college students. As part of…
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A Funny News Item … and the
Sad Truth About DUI EnforcementFirst, the funny stuff: Recently in Utah a man pulled into a Wendy’s drive-in window and fell asleep. The next person in line, concluding that the driver had been drinking,…
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DUI Checkpoint: Is it OK to Warn Drivers ?
Police in Ohio are required to warn drivers a week in advance that a DUI checkpoint is going to be set up. But last Friday, when Doug Odolecki held up…
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Could one question have
saved two lives in Florida?Every day 28 people die because of drunk driving. Some are just victims – people in the wrong place in the wrong time. Others are the ones who make the…
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Four Ways to Get a DUI – Without A Car
From the blog of Orange County DUI lawyer Virginia Landry, a report of some cases in which Driving Under the Influence did not involve a car. It’s rare, but there…
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Celebrities Should Not Glorify Drunk Driving
A hat tip to Fox News411 and Hollie McKay for a good piece on the damage that celebrities do when they flaunt their privilege and laugh off DUI convictions. “When celebrities…
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A Good Samaritan Takes Car Keys
From Drunk Driver – in Traffic!Watch this driver rectify a potentially disastrous situation. He spots a drunk driver weaving in front of him, and does the right thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm3_nYn4-MQ
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West Virginia Offers DUI Offenders a Fast Track to an Ignition Interlock
The landscape for DUI offenders in West Virginia is about to change for the better. A new law allows people charged with DUI to join the state’s ignition interlock program immediately,…
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License Suspension for DUI?
It Just. Doesn’t. Work.A Colorado study confirms the bad news: license suspension does not work as a punishment for DUI. The number of motorists cited for drunken driving who are driving without a…
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Weak DUI Laws Put Children in Peril
Most of anti-drunk-driving ads portray the horrors of the crash – we see a car, driven by a drunk, careening into pedestrians or another car full of innocents. But the…
