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Penalties for Driving Drunk »

Since 1980, several new DUI laws have been formulated to deal with drunk driving. Many NGOs and special organizations like MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) have done a lot in this regard.

 

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Some of these laws include ALR (Administrative License Revocation) and Zero tolerance laws which have been passed by the majority of states. ALR laws permits arresting officer to keep a driver’s license until he passes a breath test.

 

As the legal drinking age is 21 and legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit is 0.08 % in almost all states, therefore Zero tolerance laws have been passed to restrict the adult drivers from having a considerable alcohol concentration in their blood. Other penalties like fine money, license suspension period and number of days behind the bars have also been increased to deal the menace.  

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Man gets Maximum for Death of Friend in DWI Crash »

Today, a young man got the maximum penalty from court for causing the death of a friend. The death was caused due to a drunken-driving crash. The driver was also driving without a license due to a previous DWI conviction.

 

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Judge Alex R. Renzi of Monroe County Court sentenced Aaron M. Boop to prison for five to 15 years for the death of Nicholas A. Zajac in Wheatland on Oct. 21, 2008.

 

The trial was carried out last month for the first degree vehicular manslaughter, second-degree manslaughter, first-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, driving while intoxicated and driving without a license. Boop, 20, of Avon, Livingston County was convicted in the trial.

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What is the DUI Exception to the Constitution? »

Here on this website we will tell you about the other side of the story….

 

For years we had hear about the “slaughter on the nation’s highways”, we have also read tragic stories of people dying as a result of fatal hit by drunk drivers.

 

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Pressure groups such as MADD have gained wild success in fomenting public hysteria and, and no politician could ever had such courage to oppose them, they have been pushing through ever stricter DUI laws and most harsh punishments. As a result of all these things, we are given a repeated assurance that the number of “alcohol related” traffic fatalities have continued to decrease dramatically.

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