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Driving Drunk With a Child in the Car Equals Child Abuse

April 18, 2018 by Matt Talley

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 you let them ride in a car that you’re driving drunk, you’re a child abuser. So says, most recently, the Las Cruces Police.  A man …

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Tennessee DUI Drivers: No Alcohol Sales for 8 Years?

April 16, 2018 by Matt Talley

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 cause, because you need those too. In fact, impaired driving – particularly repeat drunk driving – is a complex problem requiring a varied set of …

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Missouri Once Again Spurns DUI Checkpoints

April 11, 2018 by Matt Talley

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 an efficient means of catching drunk drivers before they do harm. But ten states have outlawed them on the basis that they conflict with the …

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Driving on 4 Flat Tires: “Is Something Wrong, Officer?”

April 9, 2018 by Matt Talley

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 over for driving with two flat tires. Recently Florida was the scene of an event twice as dramatic. A motorist was arrested in Port Lucie …

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How Not to Refuse a Florida Sobriety Test: Bite the Cop

April 4, 2018 by Matt Talley

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 had run a car off the road. The SUV’s  driver was unable to focus or speak. Worse, when deputies tried to put her in the …

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Why Walk Like MADD in Gainesville Saturday? Her Name is Emily.

April 2, 2018 by Matt Talley

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 a walk to raise funds – and awareness – for the fight against drunk driving. The event is the Gainesville 2018 Walk Like MADD, organized …

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Idaho’s Governor Signs All-Offender Ignition Interlock Law

March 28, 2018 by Matt Talley

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, which used breathalyzer technology to prevent a car from starting if the driver has been drinking. The devices worked well, and  some public safety advocates …

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Affluenza Teen Being Released. How Do We Feel About That?

March 26, 2018 by Matt Talley

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 a drunk driving crash he caused in Fort Worth, Texas. Originally, Couch was sentenced to 10 years’ probation and therapy, but no prison time. The …

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Cops: When Truck Hits House, “The House is Rarely At Fault”

March 14, 2018 by Matt Talley

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 house in Moses Lake, Washington. Anyone looking at the scene would immediately conclude: drunk driver. And that’s the correct conclusion. The driver was arrested for …

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A Millionaire’s Blood Feud with Florida Court Ends in Defeat

March 12, 2018 by Matt Talley

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 him. John Goodman, who was convicted in 2014 for DUI manslaughter, is serving a 16-year prison sentence. His lawyers recently challenged the rule that forced …

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