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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 [...]
Although the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has no authority to impose a federal mandate to prohibit the use of cell phones while driving, they are pushing states without such laws to start seriously thinking about this safety issue. The NTSB is supporting their position due to the nearly 3,000 lives lost in 2010 alone [...]
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 [...]
Anybody in Culpeper notice a green Honda Accord with about four Sheriff’s deputies chasing it early Thursday morning? We found a story of a driver in Culpeper County that did exactly what you are not supposed to do at a traffic stop: give out your personal information including your Social Security Number and then lead [...]
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’ [...]
On Tuesday, Daniel Tulk was killed in a car accident on Route 29 Lee Highway in Manassas, Virginia when his vehicle was hit head-on by a dump truck operated by James Dibble. The car accident involved three vehicles when Dibble’s dump truck struck a Ford F-350 and then crossed into Tulk’s lane of travel hitting [...]
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 [...]
