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Las Vegas metro police said a Las Vegas woman was killed Sunday in a suspected DUI crash at the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard and Flamingo Road.

According to police, the crash occurred at 1:13 a.m., when a truck slammed into the side of a car.

Investigators said evidence at the scene and witness statements indicate that a 24-year-old Vegas woman driving a Pontiac Sunfire was making a left turn from eastbound Flamingo Road onto northbound Rainbow Boulevard during a green light. At the same time, a Dodge pickup truck — driven by 18-year-old Kevin Miranda and carrying a 16-year-old female passenger — was traveling southbound, failed to stop for a red light and struck the left side of the turning car.

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TMZ reported that Pamela Bach the ex-wife of actor David Hasselhoff  was arrested last night for DUI. The arrest follows ex-husband David Hasselhoff’s recent hospitalization over the weekend , when ambulances were called after a 911 call made by his daughter.

It is reported that Pamela Bach took a breathalyzer test and blew .14. She was taken to Van Nuys police station where she was booked and released on a $15,000 bail.

Pamela Bach told TMZ reporters “I am remorseful and mortified. I am going through a really difficult time between David being hospitalized and dealing with the divorce.

David Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach’s divorce was final in 2007. Bach also stated that she had been trying to comfort her kids earlier that evening and went out to dinner where she a few drinks.

This is the second DUI offense this year for Pamela Bach, who was previously arrested in March 2009. California laws state that a second DUI offense is punishable by mandatory jail time.

TMZ also posted the update from Pamela Bach saying that she was on her way to an AA meeting last night.

Sadly in just a couple of days time span the daughters of David Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach are in more family stress and turmoil while attempting to aid  now  what seems as both of their parents in recovery.

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A motorized bar stool that got an Ohio man arrested for drunken driving goes up for auction this week on eBay.

Twenty-nine-year-old Kile Wygle was charged with driving under the influence after he crashed the contraption in March in the central Ohio city of Newark. He pleaded guilty the following month and spent three days in jail.

A Licking County judge ruled in June that any profit from sale of the stool should go toward back child support. At the time, Wygle owed about $37,000.

The county seized the bar stool and plans to post it for auction on Thursday. The agency intervened after learning that Wygle hoped to sell the barstool to Ripley’s Believe it or Not.

If you have been charged with an Ohio DUI, waste no time contacting an Ohio DUI attorney.

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County judge challenges state law allowing seizure of vehicles after Illinois DUI.

DuPage County Associate Judge Thomas C. Dudgeon ruled that a state law allowing police and municipalities to seize vehicles of Illinois DUI offenders is unconstitutional. The law is intended to penalize repeat DUI offenders caught driving with a suspended driver’s license. Dudgeon ruled that the vehicle forfeiture statute gives the state too broad of authority, and he especially cited troubling cases involving co-ownership of a vehicle and offenders only being charged with a misdemeanor offense.

The ruling stems from a case involving three Illinois men who said the law did not allow defendants to petition a judge for return of a vehicle until after their cases of driving under the influence in Illinois were resolved. If a case went to trial, that could take several years. Family members, loved ones and even employers not accused of drunk driving were denied prompt reviews and would have to wait for the opportunity of the vehicle to be returned.

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“The Honolulu Police Department Wednesday began to post photos on its Web site of drivers suspected of drunken driving. In conjunction with its other traffic safety programs, the department inaugurated the program this week in advance of the holiday, when more drunken driving arrests are usually made.

`We are posting the photos to show that a drunken driver is not necessarily a known criminal,` said Maj. Thomas Nitta, head of the traffic division for the Honolulu Police Department. `It could be your relative, your friend, your co-worker.`”

This isn`t an attempt at rehabilitation or deterrence, it`s an attempt to humiliate drivers suspected of DUI.

The Honolulu Police Department is making  a mockery of our cherished principle of “innocent until proven guilty.” Before the suspects have had their day in court, they are publicly humiliated.

What if it turns out that a breathalyzer malfunctioned and a suspect is innocent — his mug shot will live forever in cyberspace.

A police spokesperson argues: We are posting the photos to show that a drunker driver is not necessarily a known criminal. Duh, he may not even be a criminal at all.

Somebody in Honolulu needs to get in touch with the ACLU!

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The Bakersfield Police Department was hoping Wednesday night to catch drivers who shouldn’t be behind the wheel by setting up a DUI checkpoint. However, the American Beverage Institute thinks police on patrol are more effective than the checkpoints.

Patricia Martinez says she wants every kind of patrol to catch drunk drivers so people don’t lose loved ones like she did.

“We can’t replace him,” Martinez said of her husband Martin who was killed by a drunk driver last year on Thanksgiving.

Last weekend, her cousin’s family of three was killed by a drunk driver in Mexico. Martinez hopes people will make plans for a designated driver or taxi before getting behind the wheel this Thanksgiving and every day forward.

“People are still going to be doing the same things and other people are going to be getting hurt,” Martinez said.

Bakersfield police are on the lookout for drunk drivers and will have a D.U.I. checkpoint set up Wednesday night.

However, the American Beverage Institute, a restaurant trade organization, said in a statement, “In 2008, over a million vehicles went through 1,469 California checkpoints. Police arrested just one-third of 1 percent of those motorists for drunk driving … roving patrols catch up to 10 times more drunk drivers than checkpoints.”

Sgt. Allan Abney of the Bakersfield Police Deaprtment says there’s more behind the checkpoint numbers.

“Sometimes you get as high as 10-15 DUIs out of them. Sometimes you have no DUIs,” Abney said. “I’m a glass half full type of guy and I believe that no DUIs out of a checkpoint, that means that people are paying attention, and they’re not drinking and driving.”

Abney says if text messages and word of mouth reveal where a checkpoint is, they can easily fix the problem.

“We’ve picked up a checkpoint and absolutely moved it within about a 30-45 minute period to a new location,” he explained.

Abney says locations are chosen based on past DUI arrests and accidents and are usually on major thoroughfares or open space so the checkpoint doesn’t cause traffic accidents. The checkpoints are funded through grants, so the Bakersfield Police Department says it doesn’t cost much to operate.

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None of the 113 people convicted since 2000 of serious drunken driving charges in Washoe County were ordered to install an alcohol-testing device in their cars, despite a state law requiring judges to do so, a Reno Gazette-Journal investigation found.

Department of Parole and Probation officials and prosecutors have not recommended the installation of ignition interlock devices to judges at sentencing, and judges have not been ordering them. A 1997 Nevada law requires them for all drunken-driving convictions in which someone is seriously hurt or killed, the RGJ investigation found.

Laurel Stadler, president of the Nevada chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, said she is outraged the law was being ignored.

“We have this tool that will take the decision to drive or not out of the hands of the drunk driver and put that decision in an unbiased mechanical third party, but no one’s using it,” she said. “The tool is proven. The tool is available, and yet it’s being disregarded.”

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Prosecutors say John Kerry’s eldest daughter won’t be charged with drunken driving in Los Angeles.

Police arrested Alexandra Kerry in Hollywood last week on suspicion that she was driving under the influence.

Los Angeles city attorney spokesman Frank Mateljan says prosecutors declined to pursue a case due to insufficient evidence. He says they didn’t offer further details.

A spokeswoman for John Kerry said last week that the Massachusetts senator’s daughter was pulled over for an expired registration and released after a breathalyzer test showed her blood-alcohol level was under the legal limit.

Mateljan says Alexandra Kerry isn’t facing any other charges. The 36-year-old has produced documentaries and has had several small acting roles.

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The wife of Sen. Richard Lugar was arrested in Virginia and charged with drunk driving and hit-and-run.

Charlene Lugar, 77, was pulled over in McLean Wednesday night after an officer noticed her car was trailing smoke and had front-end damage. Police believe that Mrs. Lugar had hit a parked car, according to the Washington Post.

She was taken to the Fairfax jail, where she was given a breathalyzer test and arrested, the Post reported. She was released several hours later. The results of the test were not disclosed.

Sen. Lugar’s office released the following statement to USA Today:

“At about 6:30 p.m. last evening, November 18, Mrs. Lugar had a traffic accident in our McLean, Virginia neighborhood. A charge has been filed and a court appearance is scheduled for January. No other persons were in her car or the unattended car she hit. Thankfully, no one was injured. We are deeply sorry and embarrassed that this accident has occurred.”

Richard Lugar, 78, a Republican, has served as senator from Indiana since 1977.

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A Coastal Carolina University football player is in trouble with the law after police in Conway arrested him with driving under the influence.

According to J. Reuben Long Detention Center, Austin Jace Shirley, 22, of Myrtle Beach, was booked into the jail at 3:16 a.m. Friday.

Shirley, a red-shirt senior for the Chanticleers, serves as one of the team’s inside linebackers and has previously served in the South Carolina National Guard.

No bail has been set for Shirley as of Friday afternoon.

If you have been accused of a drunk driving offense, you should waste no time contacting an attorney in your area to help you fight the charge. If a conviction is unavoidable, a DUI lawyer can get the penalties minimized.