Drunk Driving DUI Law

There’s a push for a new blood test law.  Desoto County leaders want lawmakers to allow paramedics to draw blood at the scene of a DUI accident. They think it will help convict more drunk drivers.
Tim Cutis, The Deputy Director for Desoto County Emergency Services says they’re pushing for this after seeing cases where hurt [...]

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Drunken drivers kept Arizona law-enforcement officers occupied over the Thanksgiving weekend, but not nearly as frequently as a year ago.
The drop may be attributed to more Arizonans obeying the state’s DUI laws, but having fewer officers on the street to enforce the laws because of budget cuts also may have played a role.
Police arrested 118 [...]

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After a Target 12 investigation about drunk driving laws in Rhode Island, a state lawmaker is calling for change.
The National Transportation Safety Board said the Ocean State is one of the least pro-active states in preventing alcohol-related crashes. State Senator Leonidas Raptakis is now proposing three new penalties in a DUI law.
He said anyone suspected [...]

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Failing a field sobriety test is a one-way ticket to the police station. You get to ride in the back of the cruiser while your car gets hitched to a tow truck and dragged to an impound lot. Before you pick up your car, make sure to hit the ATM. People can pay $300 or [...]

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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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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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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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The Transportation Interim Committee approved proposed changes Wednesday to the state’s drunk driving laws that could make it tougher for a person convicted of driving under the influence to have their criminal records wiped clean.
Currently, those charged with DUI can negotiate with prosecutors a plea in abeyance in which the DUI conviction is wiped from [...]

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