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The California Highway Patrol says an impatient, drunken driver is responsible for killing a mother of eight as she crossed a Bakersfield street.Investigators say one driver stopped for 54-year-old Maria Rodriguez. But 25-year-old Luis Munoz Jr. swerved around the first car and struck the woman, then fled in his vehicle. Bakersfield police stopped him a short distance away after the crash late Thursday.

Munoz is jailed on $130,000 bond on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter while driving drunk, felony drunken driving and hit and run.

Rodriguez raised her eight children in Jalisco, Mexico, before moving the family to Bakersfield. Family members say one of her proudest moments was becoming a U.S. citizen in 2004.

California DUI Crashes

Did you know that there are over 1500 California alcohol related fatalities every year? If you are a drinker, we beg you not to drive while drinking in California. However, If you have been accused of a California DUI you should look to contact a California DUI lawyer right away. Lawyers specializing in California DUI law can protect your rights and help you avoid a California DUI conviction that could follow you the rest of your life.

California DUI Lawyers

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A high-speed chase along a Sacramento County freeway ended with a suspected DUI driver and a passenger in the hospital.

Officers say they tried to pull over a truck that had been driving erratically on Interstate 80 near Antelope.

The driver ended up crossing the median leading officers on a chase of speeds up to 100-miles an hour.

The driver crashed.

He and a passenger were transported to a hospital.

Have you been accused of a Sacramento DUI?

When accused of a California DUI, know that you only have ten days to shedule a DMV hearing to avoid an automatice licenses supension. If you are arrested for DUI in Sacramento waste no time contacting a Sacramento DUI lawyer specializing in California DUIs.

A western Pennsylvania couple are both charged with drunken driving in connection with the same vehicle crash and will enter a special probation program for first time offenders.

Police charged 45-year-old Robert Kotoff Sr. and his wife, 42-year-old Tina Kotoff, after their vehicle hit a tree in Daugherty Township on April 5. When police found the wrecked vehicle in a nearby mobile home park, they say Robert Kotoff claimed he was driving and caused the crash.

But police say witnesses told them Tina Kotoff was driving when the vehicle hit a tree, and that her husband drove it to the mobile home park afterward.

Both suspects will lose their licenses for 60 days, but can have their records expunged if they complete the probation they agreed to enter on Monday.

PA DUI Law States:

First Pennsylvania DUI Conviction (BAC between .08% and .099%):

• Up to 6 months of probation
• $300 fine
• Attendance at alcohol highway safety school
• Potential enrollment in alcohol/drug treatment program

  When accused of DUI in PA contact a Pennsylvania DUI lawyer right away.

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An off-duty Chicago police officer charged with crashing into and killing a 13-year-old boy on a bike wasn’t administered a Breathalyzer for four hours after the crash and didn’t have blood drawn to test for his sobriety for another eight hours because he initially refused to cooperate, police said Tuesday. Four hours after the crash, Officer Richard Bolling registered on a Breathalyzer at 0.079, just under the legal limit of 0.08, prosecutors said.

Bolling, 39, appeared in Cook County court Tuesday, four days after he was charged with aggravated Illinois DUI, reckless homicide and leaving the scene of a crash early Friday that killed Trenton Booker. He is being held in lieu of $2 million bail.

Friday’s death marked the second time in just over a month that an off-duty Chicago police officer has been arrested in a fatal crash allegedly involving alcohol. Joseph Frugoli was charged in April with reckless homicide and Chicago DUI after a fiery crash killed two men.

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A teenager who pleaded guilty to hitting and killing a Clarke County woman as she walked along a road with her 3-year-old son has been sentenced to eight years in prison.

At Thursday’s sentencing, prosecutors said Abel Gonzalez-Perez will be held in a youth detention facility until he turns 17 in September, then will be transferred to adult prison.

Prosecutors said the teen is a native of Mexico who was working illegally in the U.S. He earlier pleaded guilty to first-degree vehicular homicide, DUI and hit-and-run.

Nayasheika “Keisha” Cooper, who was 19, died after being hit from behind in the June 14, 2008, accident.

Judge Steve Jones also ordered Gonzalez-Perez to serve seven years of probation after he is released from prison.

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A man has been charged with reckless homicide and aggravated Illinois DUI following a Friday night two-vehicle rollover crash on I-57 that killed a 53-year-old man, State Police said.

About 11:15 p.m. Friday, an EMS Plan I response was called for a two-vehicle rollover crash in the southbound lanes of I-57 near Halsted Street, Fire Media Affairs Cmdr. Will Knight said.

One person was dead on the scene of the crash, and two adults were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in serious to critical condition, Knight said.

Leroy Square, 52, of the 3800 block of South Ellis, was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center at 11:57 p.m., the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office said. A Saturday autopsy determined Square died from cervical injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident, according to the medical examiner’s office. His death was ruled an accident.

Lee Blakes, 42, was charged late Saturday with reckless homicide and aggravated DUI, according to Illinois State Police Trooper Ivan Bukaczyk, who said Blakes was the driver of the offending vehicle in the crash, a Chevrolet pickup truck.

The truck and a Ford Expedition were southbound on I-57 near Halsted Street, and one of the vehicles was speeding in an attempt to pass the other, Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Todd Borisy said.

The pickup truck ran into the Expedition, causing both to roll over and one person to be ejected from his vehicle after it rolled into the center median, police said. The ejected man was dead on the scene.

Blakes was the sole occupant of the truck, police said.

Court information for Blakes was not immediately available Sunday morning.

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A former postal worker lost both her legs, her eyesight and normal brain function when a New York drunken driver slammed into her, pinning her between her mail truck and his vehicle.

Maureen DePrince’s independence was gone. Not long afterward, so was her marriage.

On Thursday, the man who admitted driving drunk and sleepy before he smashed into her was sentenced to five years in prison, although he could be released somewhat sooner for good behavior.

Allen Henry Miller, 31, of Schenectady, N.Y., had pleaded guilty in December to aggravated assault and drunken driving in connection with the July 2006 crash in Ventnor. However, this by no means suggests a first time DUI is to be sneezed at. DUI laws are tough these days and only getting tougher. Remember, one moment could deplete your entire life all because you had to drive drunk! And not to mention the others life you could change for the worst. You may think you could never do something like this because your are ‘extra careful’, but I’m sure Mr. Miller here didn’t plan on not arriving at home that day either. Look at him now.

If you have already been accused of DUI in New York you would be wise to seek the services of a New York Traffic Lawyer.
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