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We’ve all had the wonderful chore of sitting around a Virginia DMV office for hours to do something simple that cannot be done self-serve on their website or through the mail. After finishing off War and Peace and gone slightly insane, your number might be called. There is some ray of hope for a shorter [...]
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 [...]
While D.C. saw more impaired driving crashes and Maryland did not see much of a change in the last five years, Virginia saw a significant drop in impaired driving crashes from 11,736 alcohol- or drug-related car accidents in 2006 statewide to 8,221 in 2010. Officials are attributing the drop in drunk drivers on the road [...]
It’s an issue that’s come to light nationwide—texting and driving. But do bans work? A recent study says no.
On the frigid morning of Sunday, January 3, 2009, a jogger notices a tire sticking out of the water of Rock Creek and called 911. Police and rescue personnel discovered a vehicle that had plunged into Rock Creek where they found 22-year-old Joshua Kuhlman barely alive. Kuhlman apparently had been in the freezing Rock Creek [...]
U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Antonin Scalia have expressed their concern over the decision of their colleagues to not hear an appeal on the case of Virginia v. Harris. In the case of Virginia v. Joseph A. Moses Harris, Jr., Richmond Police received an anonymous tip of a drunk [...]
Most bars monitor their customers to make sure they do not drink in excess for safety and legal reasons; however, The Attic, a bar in Newcastle, England, encouraged their customers to excessively drink to the point they exceeded the legal Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) to drive by testing customers with a breathalyzer. At last call, [...]
Originally posted: July 22, 2009 Updated: September 30, 2009 The U.S. Supreme Court ruling of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts places more of a burden on prosecutors in criminal cases to produce live witness testimony to support scientific/laboratory reports during trial. This ruling directly has an impact on DWI/DUI cases which are classified as a criminal offense [...]
View more news videos at: http://www.nbcwashington.com/video. NBC4 is reporting that Rebecca L. Sacra and her two-year-old grandson, Jonathan Wade-Ortiz, were killed in a car accident while stopped for a red light at the intersection of Prince William Parkway and University Boulevard in Manassas, Virginia by a suspected drunk driver just after midnight on September 3, [...]
In our fast paced society, drivers are tempted to irresponsible use of mobile technology and put themselves, their passengers, and others using the road in significant danger. Virginia has joined 8 other states and the District of Columbia by prohibiting texting while driving after distracted drivers caused an astonishing 80% of accidents last year. Virginia’s [...]
