Taimoor Rana is seasoned criminal defense attorney specializing in DUI related cases. He shares his expert legal opinion here Holiday DUI Arrests Up From Last Year »
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- According to the CHP officials, the California Highway Patrol has made more DUI arrests in the Bay Area and statewide during the holiday enforcement period, till now, as compared to the last year.
So far, the CHP officers in the Bay Area have arrested 39 drivers suspected of driving under the influence, which is quite higher than last year’s total of 24 arrests from 6 p.m. Thursday through 6 a.m. today, as told by the CHP.
From all over the states, CHP has arrested 246 drivers for allegedly driving under the influence, whereas the agency had arrested 167 drivers last year during the same enforcement period.
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DWI Suspects’ Names On Twitter »
The social networking site Twitter will now be used to stop dui, as a Montgomery County law enforcement agency plans to post the names of those arrested for DWI on the site.
According to the Chief prosecutor Warren Diepraam, by tweeting the names of DWI suspects, who have been charged in cases considered strong enough to prosecute, the threat of humiliation would lead less people to drink and drive.
Diepraam said "We’ve kind of simplified it by using Twitter, putting that information that’s already out there as a public record, putting it on Twitter so that people could follow who’s been arrested" .
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Woman Charged With DUI After Plowing Into House »
This week, a 20-year-old Winnetka woman was charged with DUI. Earlier this month, she had lost control of her car, crashing into the living room of a sleeping Wilmette family.
The woman named Colleen D. Brennan, resident of the 600 block of Sheridan Road, was charged when she had a blood-alcohol content of .29, which is greater than three times the legal limit to drive of .08.
According to the Police, Brennan was alone in a Saab at 5 a.m. on Dec. 5, when she crashed into a fire hydrant and a parked car before crossing four lawns in the 1100 block of Ridge Road in Wilmette. After that, she drove right through the bushes, before going airborne and hitting the home.
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Blood Alcohol Levels and Effects »
This article mainly focus on those individuals who intakes alcohol. This article will help you understand the adverse effects of alcohol on the body. Effect of alcohol varies from person to person.
Even people who consume little alcohol can be affected badly. This is because different types of alcoholic beverages are dispersed into the body differently and there are immeasurable combinations which affect the blood level in a different way.
Avoid drinking alcohol while driving. Though, sometimes you are in a position to drive if you consume alcohol in little quantity but some new laws, introduced in many countries don’t allow you to drive if you are drunk in order to avoid deaths. Laws differ from country to country.
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Why You Should Never Drink and Drive »
Leaving the legal issue aside, the question is whether or not to drive after consuming any amount of alcohol. Many researches have shown that impairment due to drinking begins long before a person reaches the blood alcohol concentration level set by the government to be guilty of drunken driving.
The Legal Limit
The legal limit for drunk driving is a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level of 0.08, in all 50 states. This means that a woman weighing 120-pound can reach a 0.08 BAC level after only two drinks, whereas a man weighing 180-pound can reach 0.08 after only four drinks.
A drink can be any drink having some amount of alcohol, be it one shot of liquor, or a five-ounce glass of wine or one beer.
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Study Suggests Gender Specific DUI Road Tests »
Although there have been many jokes about women trying to flirt with police officers to get out of tickets but now, there maybe some concrete evidence to prove that woman are more at a loss when it comes to the standard DUI laws than ever before.
The Law Offices of Lawrence Taylor, a DUI attorney in Los Angeles area and nationally known author of the book Drunk Driving Defense, has provided an article, which shows a study conducted in Italy.
According to the study, there is a component in the female’s bio-chemical make-up which could make women more prone to fail a DUI road test. The study may prove that woman may be unfairly arrested for DUI in some cases and should be given more gender specific tests.
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Please Drive Safe »
This is a reminder to all drivers that we operate a machine that kill, destroy, and maim not only our families but the families of others. This happens every single minute of everyday in our world. Show this to all drivers that you know and remind them.
Please be safe out there.
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