Drunk Driving DUI Law

California State Legislature has approved Assembly Bill 91. The bill creates a project in the counties of Alameda, Los Angeles, Sacramento, and Tulare requiring the installation of ignition interlock devices (IID) on any vehicle owned or operated by an individual convicted of a DUI offense. First time or otherwise.
“This legislation has the potential to save [...]

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A Sacramento Police Officer has been booked for Sacramento DUI. The officer fell asleep at the wheel, fox40 reports.
Firefighters were the first on scene. They called the police when they suspected the officer had been drinking.
“There are over 1,100 men and women in this department and we’re all human. However we do expect our officers [...]

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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 [...]

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Drunk Driving in Sacramento County
A Placer County judge declared a mistrial Friday in the case of an off-duty Sacramento County sheriff’s sergeant DUI who was accused of driving drunk when he was pulled over by a Roseville police officer in October 2007.
Sgt. Christopher D. Guerrero was not arrested or cited at the scene on Douglas [...]

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Power was knocked out and a Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputy was hurt when two separate alleged drunk drivers crashed near the same Citrus Heights intersection this morning.
The two crashes happened at the intersection of Greenback Lane and Walnut Avenue around 1:00am this morning..  The deputy was dispatched to help deal with a crash where an [...]

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A man accused of killing a teacher while driving drunk was sentenced Wednesday to six years in state prison.
Robert Basinger, 22, was driving along Folsom Boulevard in his 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee in March at excessive speed with no lights on when he collided with Mary Sekul’s 2002 Mazda 626.
Sekul, a 59-year-old [...]

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