Between the Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day holidays last year more than 1600 drivers had been arrested for a Colorado DUI. Colorado officials are committed to performing whatever they can to bring that number down this year and to make the streets as secure as achievable throughout the holidays. Local authorities and law enforcement officials [...]
In Bayou George, Florida, a woman pulled over for suspected DUI has been arrested on extra charges, after she slipped out of police handcuffs as well as her clothes and allegedly assaulted a deputy follDUIng a vehicle crash. Samantha Wilson, a 22-year-old woman, was put in custody after she crashed her vehicle at 4 p.m. [...]
Funding from the National Highway Visitors Safety Administration has once more made it feasible to put all available officers on the street for a massive holiday DUI crackdown. A countywide effort consisting of saturation patrols all over Stanislaus County resulted in a lot more than sixty DUI arrests over the course of the seven day [...]
DUI related deaths have decreased each year for the past three years, but Idaho officials are still searching for methods to keep their streets safer. With a lot more than 1500 alcohol related accidents per year and a lot of repeat offenders, many Idaho officials are calling for stricter laws pertaining to ignition interlock devices. [...]
The installation of an ignition interlock device in the state of Tennessee is currently up to the discretion of the courts. Judges customarily reserve ignition interlock devices for drivers with multiple offenses, but that is all about to change. Tennessee drivers will be ringing in the New Year with a new DUI law that requires [...]
A statewide program for cutting down on DUIs, recognized as “Avoid the 12,” began last Friday and will continue on full force via the celebration for the New Year. The massive efforts for making the streets of California safer will consist of DUI checkpoints, roving patrols and saturation patrols and will contain support from more [...]
Over the course of the last four years there have been substantial increases in DUI arrests across the state of South Carolina. During that time period the number of arrests has risen more than seventy percent and there have been nearly fifteen thousand DUI arrests by the highway patrol this year alone. In addition to [...]
Despite some of the toughest DUI laws in the country, the state of Nebraska is still having problems with keeping its streets totally free of DUI drivers. This passed weekend alone, 3 multiple offenders had been stopped in the Omaha area, two facing a fourth DUI conviction and one facing a fifth. This has prosecutors [...]
Montana has a history of a DUI culture that is not as critical of drunk driving offenses as other parts of the country. Recently, the state’s efforts to curb drunk driving have led to far more stringent policy. Now, the state’s Attorney General, Steve Bullock, has proposed the expansion of a pilot program that calls [...]
The Southern Arizona DUI Job Force piled up another forty five arrests this past weekend, bringing the total number of arrests since Thanksgiving weekend to a whopping 176. Of the forty five DUI drivers who were arrested seven had blood alcohol levels high enough to be take into account extreme DUI, which puts them in [...]