Drunk Driving DUI Law

Attorney General Chris Bentley returned to his old turf yesterday, telling a roomful of criminal lawyers he’s trying to fix Ontario’s justice system as any shrewd defence lawyer would approach a case.
He’s strategizing.

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If you traveled by vehicle this Thanksgiving weekend, you probably noticed traffic enforcement officers did not take the weekend off. They were out in numbers working diligently to make our roadways safe for holiday traffic.

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The California Highway Patrol is reporting 75 drunken driving arrests in the county so far this Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
During the same period last year, CHP officers made 92 DUI arrests in the county.
The only fatalities reported countywide this weekend occurred in Balboa Park at midnight, when a driver and passenger were killed in a rollover [...]

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In the past, a first-time Illinois offender who had a statutory summary suspension — meaning their driving privileges were suspended because of a drunken driving arrest — could request a judicial driving permit. If granted by a judge and approved by the secretary of state, the permit allowed the offender to drive, but only to [...]

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Crackdown on drunk driving in New Mexico will last into early 2009.
Drunk DrivingNew Mexico started its annual Superblitz aimed at cracking down on motorists who are driving drunk. This year the campaign has been extended through the New Year celebration.
Law enforcement agencies across the state will be conducting random sobriety checkpoints and enhanced drunk driving [...]

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NO one should drink and drive. Alcohol impairs the senses to such a degree that driving is unsafe for the driver and dangerous to others on the road.
As Donna Hawkins, state director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, told Mannix Porterfield of the Register-Herald in Beckley, drunk drivers caused 142 funerals in West Virginia in 2007 [...]

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Over 80,000 arrest for DWI are made in North Carolina every year.
North Carolina Rank 5th in the Country for Alcohol Related Traffic Deaths The following is being released by Mothers Against Drunk Driving of North Carolina: What: Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) of North Carolina will kick-off its annual Tie One On For Safety holiday [...]

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Family and friends of a Johnston City man– killed in a drunk driving accident 16 months ago– say they’re still waiting for the man responsible to be punished.
In July of 2007, 22 year-old Justin Dodd was killed when the car he was riding in flipped into a ditch.
The driver, Ross Hill, has pleaded guilty to [...]

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Drunken drivers remain a menace on West Virginia highways, and even with a new law on the books, more lives likely will be sacrificed while lawmakers gauge its ability to drop the number of deaths.
Just this year, Gov. Joe Manchin signed a much-debated and revised proposal aimed at reversing the deadly trend of inebriants behind [...]

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The Wind River Indian Reservation has toughened its drunken-driving standards for tribal members.
The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes share the reservation in central Wyoming. The new legal blood-alcohol limit on the reservation is 0.05 percent. That’s just half of the reservation’s old limit of 0.1 percent and lower than Wyoming’s standard of 0.08 percent.
Eastern [...]

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