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This year’s Super Bowl features a long-time rivalry between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots, which means that Super Bowl parties will be popping up all over town. If you’re planning to host a party, there are several steps you can take to help protect yourself and your friends from a New York City car accident caused by alcohol this weekend: Make sure everyone has a sober way to get home befor [...]

Tweet There are tens of thousands who choose to drive under the influence of alcohol every year in the United States. While drunk driving can occur at any time of the year, incidents typically increase when certain holidays or major sporting events occur. In anticipation of Super Bowl Sunday, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) has begun the Sup [...]

An off-duty police officer in New Jersey was sentenced to 10 years in prison with the possibility of parole in three and a half years, for striking and killing a pedestrian who was crossing a street in Lower Manhattan. According to a news report, the woman died at the scene and her boyfriend was critically injured. The driver was reportedly driving double the speed limit and authorities have stated that he was unde [...]

Thousands of innocent car accident victims lose their lives or are severely injured each year as a result of drunk drivers. Driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs is illegal in every state. Now, according to an Associated Press news report, New York City officials are reassessing the legal process that determines whether someone was drinking and driving in a serious car accident. This process began a [...]

In January of this year, H&P Industries, Inc., which does business as the Triad Group of Hartland, Wisconsin issued a recall of all lots of alcohol prep pads, alcohol swabs and alcohol swabsticks. These products are packaged under a variety of labels including Triad, Safeway, Kroger, CVS, Walgreens and the Target brand Up and Up). The recall announcement was in response to a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inv [...]

ABC 2 News reports that Maryland police arrested a 21-year-old man from Westminster after driving drunk resulted in him hitting at least five parked cars, three mailboxes, and a stop sign in the early morning hours of January 4th. According to the article, police began their search for the driver after responding to a report of a white truck hitting a mailbox and linking the incident to another report of a hit-and- [...]

While breath and blood alcohol content (BAC) tests play a vital role in arrests for those accused of driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI), there is another important step in police procedure that can affect a defendant’s charges and his or her defense in court: field sobriety tests. These tests are designed to gauge a subject’s mental and physical abilities and if they are able to multitask, something t [...]

One of the unfortunate side effects of Thanksgiving and the holiday season in general in the United States is that the time period typically sees an increase in the amount of driving under the influence (DUI) incidents. As such, police around the country increase drunk driving patrols and sobriety checkpoints at the end of every year, especially in the several days surrounding each holiday. The holidays are a time [...]

Both in Maryland and across the United States, breath alcohol testing is a crucial step for police to determine if a suspect is driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol. While breath testing is not the only test available, it is commonly used in DUI pullovers and can play a large part in both arrests and trials. With so much placed on the results of a breath test, it is important to understand how these machine [...]

A 23-year-old woman was recently cited for driving under the influence of a controlled substance after suffering major injuries in a New Jersey car accident. According to a news report in The Sheboygan Press, the alleged New Jersey DUI collision occurred along State Highway 28 south of Cherry Hill Road in Sheboygan County. Officials say her 2010 Toyota Corolla veered off the roadway, through a field, and crashed in [...]