Two drivers have been arrested on DUI charges after they crashed into two Indiana State Police cars at the same location on I-465 early on Sunday morning. The incident began just before 2:30 a.m. when State Trooper Josh Graves was dispatched to the southbound lanes near 56th street at the
A Nampa cab driver, Jeffrey Knutson, is facing a DUI charge following a crash involving a motorcyclist. Knutson, 43, slammed his taxi into a 38-year-old woman riding on a motorcycle last Saturday afternoon around 5:00 p.m. The woman was taken to the hospital and is in serious condition. Corporal Jamie
Currently every state in the United States makes it illegal to drive a vehicle with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .08%. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has voted to recommend that each state lower their BAC level from .08% to .05%. The NTSB based their decision on several
David Bisard, a suspended Indianapolis Metropolitan police officer, is heading back to court on Wednesday for his latest arrest for suspected driving while intoxicated. Bisard was already facing charges of reckless homicide and operating while intoxicated(OWI) from a crash in August of 2010 that took the life of motorcyclist Eric
Last year the Tennessee Department of Safety reported that there were 28,735 DUI arrests which rank the state 11th in drunk driving fatalities. According to the Mothers’ Against Drunk Driving(MADD), one third of those arrests were repeat offenders. So what is being done to combat this problem with repeat DUI
One of the most common questions I receive from individuals is whether they should provide a breath sample when they are stopped for DUI. The first thing I tell them is that if they refuse, their driver’s license can be suspended for 90 days for a first time DUI. The
After the initial 1977 study into field sobriety testing conducted by the Southern California Research Institute a second study was commissioned. In 1981 the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) awarded a second contract for the study of the three standardized tests. These tests were the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus, Walk-and-Turn,
In the State of Alabama, individuals under the legal drinking age are held to a more stringent standard than those over the legal drinking age. As most people know, the legal drinking age in the State of Alabama is 21. There are a couple instances where underage drinkers may be
Over the years, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) has awarded research contracts to several organizations to determine the effectiveness of field sobriety tests. The Southern California Research Institute did the first of the studies conducted. Marcelline Burns was the director of Southern California Research Institute. It was Burns
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