Category: News
The latest news and information about ignition interlocks, the impact of drunk driving, public safety, and more.
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Driving Drunk With a Child in the Car Equals Child Abuse
You may love your children more than anything in the world. You may treat them well, keeping them out of harm and never laying a hand on them. But if…
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Tennessee DUI Drivers: No Alcohol Sales for 8 Years?
What’s the cause of drunk driving? You could say it’s alcohol, because you can’t drive drunk without it. However, if that’s true, you could also say that vehicles are the…
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Missouri Once Again Spurns DUI Checkpoints
Sobriety checkpoints – roadblocks at which police stop cars and ask drivers if they’ve been drinking – are controversial. Most states at least permit them, and many use them as…
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Driving on 4 Flat Tires: “Is Something Wrong, Officer?”
Maybe you read about a winner of the Miss Washington pageant who had to give up her crown in 2016 because she was arrested for DUI after she was pulled…
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How Not to Refuse a Florida Sobriety Test: Bite the Cop
DUI patrol is not an easy job. It was particularly hard for some Leon County officers who responded to a call after a crash in Tallahassee. It appears an SUV…
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Why Walk Like MADD in Gainesville Saturday? Her Name is Emily.
There are a lot of ways to spend a Saturday morning in Gainesville, Florida. The most worthwhile way to pass this coming Saturday – 7 April 2018 – would be…
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Idaho’s Governor Signs All-Offender Ignition Interlock Law
It began in California with something called the Farr-Davis Safety Act of 1986. That law required DUI offenders in four counties to use a new device called an ignition interlock,…
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Affluenza Teen Being Released. How Do We Feel About That?
Time flies. The question some are asking is if it’s flown too fast for Ethan Couch, the notorious “affluenza teen” who, at the age of 16, killed four people in…
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Cops: When Truck Hits House, “The House is Rarely At Fault”
Some collisions are hard to figure out. Others seem to scream out the cause. That’s the case with a truck that was recently found inserted into the side of a…
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A Millionaire’s Blood Feud with Florida Court Ends in Defeat
A millionaire who is now in prison for DUI manslaughter recently tried to challenge Florida’s methods of collecting and testing blood for alcohol levels. It did not go well for…
