Drunk Driving DUI Law

New York Governor Patterson is pushing for new legislation that would raise the penalties for people who are convicted of New York drunk driving with a child in their car. Named the Child Passenger Protection Act, the proposed law makes it a felony for anybody to get a New York DWI with a child passenger. [...]

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A scary sight this morning. Police say an infant was thrown from a minivan after a car crash caused by a drunk driver. It happened just after 2:30 this morning on State Street. Rochester Police say an SUV ran a red light and slammed into a minivan with six people inside. A six-month-old baby in [...]

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An Otter Tail County man with a historic record of DUI arrests is back in jail. This time he is facing his 26th DUI arrest. 56-year old Danny Boettcher was arrested over the weekend in New York Mills. He’s been without a driver’s license for some time, but has chosen to drive regardless. This 26th [...]

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When a man attending a victims’ impact panel meeting in the Town of Poughkeepsie was determined to be intoxicated, he was arrested on a number of charges. Dutchess County Sheriff’s deputy at the session on Thursday spoke with Kashik Metha, 61, of Wappinger, and determined he was under the influence of alcohol. He was attending [...]

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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 [...]

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New York Governor David Patterson vetoed a bill that would have extended no-fault insurance benefits to drunk drivers. State legislation S.8294-A sought to repeal an Alcohol Exclusion under existing law that allows insurance companies to deny coverage of those arrested for DUI in New York. The main beneficiary of the proposed bill would have been [...]

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Man provided his brother’s name in effort to avoid NY drunk driving charge. Erkan Deniz, of Palenville, tried to escape a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated in New York by giving state police officers the name of his brother. That bit of deception added a felony to the charges. Erkan Deniz, 23, was stopped [...]

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