DUI News Digest

For Assemblyman Paul Moriarty, putting video cameras in new police cars became personal two years ago when he was arrested for drunken driving and video from a camera mounted on a cruiser helped get the charges dropped and his name cleared. Since May, both chambers of the Legislature have overwhelmingly adopted his bill to require the cameras in newly acquired police vehicles. If Republican Gov. Chris Christie doesn’t veto the measure by Aug. 11, it becomes law. Read More »

Proving that some people need to make the same mistake twice–or three or four times–to learn a lesson, Robert Schiro, having just completed an 18-month prison sentence for driving drunk earlier this year, is back in hot water with the law again. Read More »

By December 2015, every law enforcement agency in the state of Georgia must switch to a new type of Breathalyzer. That’s according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Houston County Sheriff’s office already got a head start. This new machine makes the process much more interactive. Read More »

NORFOLK, Va. — Ten years ago, local lawmakers looked at a high-profile DUI case, listened to law enforcement and said, “Enough is enough.” A bipartisan group drafted more than 70 bills seeking to stiffen penalties and enact near-zero-tolerance for repeat offenders. Did It Work? DUI fatalities in Virginia have dropped by 21 percent since 2005, according to Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles statistics. Read More »

About 13,000 of the 34,000 drivers who had been charged in 2013 with driving drunk in Pennsylvania had previous DUIs on their records. Some people, including a state legislator who represents parts of Adams and Franklin counties, believe the criminal justice system fails to do enough to keep repeat offenders off the road.   Read More »

TUSCALOOSA, Alabama — For the second time in eight days, an Alabama football player football player found himself in legal trouble. Defensive lineman Jarran Reed was arrested Sunday morning and charged with DUI, according to records at the Tuscaloosa County Jail. He was being held on $1,000 unsecured bond. Read More »

What he found is that there’s a correlation between ride-sharing services coming on the market and a reduction in DUI arrests, particularly for the under-30 demographic that uses them the most: After all ride sharing services were in effect (April 2013 through the end of 2013), the average number of DUIs per month dropped across the board by 11%, with those under 30 being mostly responsible for the drop: Overall: 1121.9 (11.1% decrease) Under 30: 450.9 (18.5% decrease) Over 30: ... Read More »

A young woman’s life changed forever when a driver under the influence smashed head on into her car. But the shock of what happened didn’t end on impact. That other driver couldn’t be charged with driving under the influence or D-U-I. He had been huffing on a cleaner can. Read More »

DUI task forces around the state arrested 389 people on DUI charges over Independence Day weekend. That’s pretty much on-par with the DUI enforcement over the same weekend last year, when 361 people were arrested on DUI charges, according to the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety. Read More »

Charleston, SC – South Carolina has one of the worst records for DUI deaths, but it’s not always easy to convict drunk drivers in court. The issue resurfaced recently when Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen said the difficulty of getting a DUI conviction in South Carolina was one of the reasons an officer charged an apparently intoxicated woman sitting behind the wheel of car outside a downtown hotel with disorderly conduct instead of drunk driving. Read More »