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If you find yourself partying a little too hard on St. Patrick’s Day, you can contact SoberRide to get a safe taxi ride home. This program that was established to reduce drunk drivers on the roads in the Washington, D.C. area will run Saturday, March 17, 2012 from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. the following [...]
33-year-old Rashawn Butts is facing DUI and child abuse charges following a car crash that sent his son and two nephews to the hospital. Henrico Police reported that Butts had been driving on J.E.B. Stuart Parkway near the mall when he veered into oncoming traffic and crashed into another vehicle. Although the Dodge Caravan that [...]
Judge Lon Farris of the Prince William County Circuit Court sentenced Carlos Martinelly Montano to 20 years for causing a car accident on August 1, 2010 in Bristow, Virginia that killed Sister Denise Mosier and injured Sisters Charlotte Lange and Connie Ruth Lupton. Montano was found guilty of felony murder, involuntary manslaughter, two counts of [...]
December 16, 2011 through January 2, 2012 is the “Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest.” national crackdown to reduce the number of drunk drivers on the roads during the Holidays. With office parties and other holiday events in full swing, there are plenty of opportunities for drivers to have too much to drink before [...]
The Federal Aviation Administration chief Randy Babbitt announced he will resign after he was caught driving drunk down the wrong side of Old Lee Highway in Fairfax on Saturday. Babbit was arrested for driving while intoxicated and later released on a personal recognizance bond. Although Babbitt was allegedly found intoxicated, Fairfax City Police have not [...]
Virginia State Police released that during the reportable Thanksgiving holiday weekend from 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, November 23 through midnight Sunday, November 27, 2011, that they investigated 884 traffic accidents with nine people killed on Virginia’s roads during the weekend. Of the nine that were killed, five were reported as not wearing their seatbelts. Also, alcohol [...]
Take a wild guess at which day of the year is the worst for underage drinking? Halloween? No. New Year’s Eve? No. Try the day before Thanksgiving that the police have dubbed ‘Black Wednesday’. They call this Black Wednesday because the kids tend to drink until they literally black out. Ask some of our victims’ [...]
Imagine getting a text from your child that says, “Mommy I think our bus driver is drunk she’s not driving right.” This is what happened on Tuesday in New Jersey when 25 frantic Westampton Middle School students alerted their parents by texts and phone calls that their school bus driver Carole Crockett was driving intoxicated. [...]
Next time you are sitting in traffic, look to the driver to your left, look at your rear view mirror to peek at yourself, and then look at the driver on your right and try to figure out which one of you is driving drowsy. Statically according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, one [...]
Testimonies were heard on October 26, 2011 against the Bedford County woman who is charged with driving while drunk and two counts of DUI maiming following a head-on collision that occurred in May. Doris Coe, 41, had been traveling southbound on Peaks Road at approximately 6:30 p.m. when her 2008 Ford Fusion crossed the centerline [...]
