A Shift from Driving to Drinking as a Measure to Control DUI Offences

There aren’t many people who get charged with a DUI more than once and most of the people who get charged with a DUI never get arrested while being under trial for the DUI offence. Then there are those who get charged with DUI offence in a repeated fashion due to their habit of getting drunk and then driving. As per an analysis of the court records around 1400 people were charged with a DUI in Pennsylvania in the year 2016 and out of them 100 people were charged with more than two DUI charges.

Experts believe that DUI offences can be extremely harmful as those getting drunk and then driving a vehicle being intoxicated can cause a lot of harm to the other law abiding citizens of the society and cause irreparable damage to them. In order to deal with cases involving intoxicated driving, the governments are taking a fresh approach and are letting go of the traditional methods that focused on the driving aspects of the intoxicated drivers.

Now a lot of new ways have been adopted in order to deal with DUI cases such as the 24/7 Sobriety program implemented in South Dakota in the year 2005 according to which a habitual offender needs to appear at the office of the county sheriff twice a day i.e. in the morning and the evening to get a breathalyzer test done and if the said offender fails in one such test then the offender is sent to a county jail for a day or two. Another program by York County known as the Target 25 program has won accolades as it uses SCRAM Continuous Alcohol Monitor on habitual DUI offenders as a condition to release them on bail and the alcohol monitor detects alcohol consumption. The idea behind these programs is to hold offenders accountable for their reckless behaviors and it seems that these programs are being popular by the day being accepted on a national level.

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Illegal Immigrant Charged in DUI Crash That Killed Two Including Colts Player Edwin Jackson

In a latest case of drunken driving crash that killed linebacker of Indianapolis Colts, Edwin Jackson and an Uber driver, prosecutors filed felony charges against an immigrant living illegally in the U.S. who is said to have been deported twice before. Manuel Orrego-Savala, who hails from Guatemala, has been charged with two serious offences, causing death while driving intoxicated and leaving the scene of an accident. As per investigators Orrego-Savala has been living in the U.S. illegally for past several years and has reportedly been deported from the country twice in the year 2007 and 2009. After a blood test was conducted on Orrego-Savala, the hospital determined that he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 percent which is twice the permitted limit for driving in Indiana.

According to the investigators, Orrego-Savala had been living in the country without permission and was also charged with illegal entry of a previously deported alien and faces up to 10 years in prison on that charge alone. The U.S. Attorney’s office stated that the said charge would be handled after state charges are resolved.

The matter caught widespread attention as President Donald Trump took to twitter and termed the said accident as disgraceful and also nudged Democrats to collaborate with him on the issue of illegal immigration and security of the borders. However, Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry while criticizing the comments stated that his office would prosecute the crash case that caused two fatalities in a vigorous manner regardless of the fact that Orrego-Savala was an illegal immigrant. On the other hand Jorge Torres who is dui defence lawyer for Orrego-Savala stated that his client is confused and highly distraught at the moment to say anything and further said that Orrego-Salava who is currently in jail, had been doing construction work in Indiana for several years and his immigration status does not have a bearing in the current case.

Read the full article here: https://abc13.com/sports/man-charged-in-crash-that-killed-colts-player-edwin-jackson-/3054929/

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Mom driving with baby arrested for DUI and peeing on a cop

A Florida mom suspected of driving drunk with a baby in the back seat was also accused of urinating on an officer during her arrest.

Nichole Nespolini, 40, of Melbourne, was arrested Monday after rear-ending another car at an intersection in Melbourne, where Nespolini then pleaded with the motorist not to notify police, Florida Today reported.

When cops arrived on the scene, Nespolini walked into traffic and began pushing an officer in the chest and stood on her toes at one point to yell in an officer’s face, according to an arrest report.

Then, as three cops started putting Nespolini in handcuffs, she said, according to the report: “I’m peeing and I hope it gets on you!”

Nespolini then started urinating on an officer’s foot before kicking another cop in the groin as she was taken into a police cruiser. Officers at that point discovered a baby secured in a child seat in the back seat of Nespolini’s car.

The father of the child responded to the scene to pick up the baby as Nespolini was taken to a hospital before being taken into custody at the Braved County Jail. She remains in custody as of early Thursday on $18,500 bond, jail records show.

Nespolini is facing charges of driving under the influence, DUI with property damages, child neglect, resisting an officer with violence, resisting an officer without violence and battery on a law enforcement officer.

Read the full article here: https://nypost.com/2018/02/15/mom-driving-with-baby-arrested-for-dui-and-peeing-on-a-cop/

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Driver charged with DUI, leaving crash scene

A Gainesville man was arrested Saturday for causing a multiple-car crash while driving under the influence before leaving the scene of the crash, according to a GPD report.

Police said Jeffery Wayne York Jr., 28, of 840 NW 55th St., was driving while intoxicated early Saturday morning when he crashed his car into the rear-end of another vehicle, which caused that vehicle to hit the rear-end of another car.

Both victims contacted the police, and York began arguing with both parties before leaving the scene, the report said.

Police were able to use a license plate number provided by one of the victims to locate York at his residence.

Police said York admitted being involved in the crash and to leaving the scene before taking part in a field sobriety tests in a nearby parking lot.

York also gave breath samples that registered .241 and .242, which is more than three times the legal limit in Florida.

York was charged with a DUI involving damage to property and with leaving the scene of an accident. He was taken to the Alachua County jail where he was released Saturday on his own recognizance.

Read the full article here: https://www.gainesville.com/news/20180211/driver-charged-with-dui-leaving-crash-scene

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Orléans trucker charged with drunk driving on Highway 401

It’s a wonder that an Orléans trucker nabbed by the OPP’s traffic patrol didn’t kill anyone.

Sgt. Kerry Schmidt, who mans the OPP’s highway safety division Twitter account, reported Sunday that the unnamed 29-year-old had been spotted behind the wheel of a fully-loaded transport truck that was slowing traffic, weaving and cutting off other vehicles on Highway 401 in Toronto.

He ended up charged with impaired driving, driving with more than 80 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood and dangerous driving.

Retired Ontario Provincial Police Commissioner Chris Lewis likely spoke for everyone else on the road when he tweeted a succinct question: “How many innocent lives jeopardized by this complete moron???”

Read the full article here: https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/orleans-trucker-charged-with-drunk-driving-on-highway-401-opp

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Woman unfit to care for horse after DUI while riding

by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Posted Dec 30, 2017 2:17 pm EST Last Updated Dec 30, 2017 at 3:00 pm EST
BARTOW, Fla. – A Florida judge says a sheriff’s office must retain custody of a horse whose owner was charged with drunken driving while riding the animal.

In a report by The Ledger , Polk County Judge Sharon Franklin said 53-year-old Donna Byrne was unfit to care for the horse. Franklin also said Byrne must complete treatment for alcohol addiction.

Byrne was arrested Nov. 2 after riding her horse down a highway. Police said her blood-alcohol level twice Florida’s legal limit.

Byrne’s attorney, Craig Whisenhunt, says he will revisit the custody issue at a Jan. 11 hearing regarding additional pending charges of disorderly intoxication, animal endangerment and culpable negligence.

Whisenhunt questions whether the charges applied to Byrne, saying she had not been disorderly and was a pedestrian under the law.

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Information from: The Ledger (Lakeland, Fla.), https://www.theledger.com

Read the full article here: https://www.680news.com/2017/12/30/judge-woman-unfit-to-care-for-horse-after-dui-while-riding/

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Randy Travis loses bid to block naked DUI arrest video

By Kristin M. Hall, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NASHVILLE — A federal judge has denied a request by country singer Randy Travis to stop the state of Texas from releasing footage of him naked and ranting during a 2012 DUI arrest.

The ruling on a request for a preliminary injunction issued Thursday paves the way for the Texas Department of Public Safety to release the footage on Friday, which was requested through open records requests.

Travis’ family has been in a long legal battle to stop the release of the footage that went all the way to the state Supreme Court, which denied his petition. Travis filed a federal lawsuit in September in Texas arguing that that the footage should be considered private under health record privacy regulations. But the judge said he did not show a substantial likelihood of success on the claims.

Read the full article here: https://torontosun.com/entertainment/celebrity/randy-travis-loses-bid-to-block-naked-dui-arrest-video

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DUI solutions that target drinking not driving

Most people who get a DUI do not get another.

Most people who get more than one DUI do not get arrested while awaiting the outcome of their first offense.

However, a small but persistent group of habitual offenders remain.

At least 1,400 people were charged with more than one DUI in Pennsylvania outside of Philadelphia in 2016, according to an analysis of court records conducted by The Sentinel.

Nearly 100 of those people were charged with more than two, The Sentinel found.

Each time they get behind the wheel intoxicated, the outcome can be catastrophic.

“It truly can cause some of the most horrific crashes and deaths,” said David Drumheller, traffic safety resource prosecutor for the Pennsylvania District Attorney’s Association. “You can be out with your family driving home from the movies completely law abiding, and next thing you know you’re hit by a drunk driver and your life is changed as you know it.”

In recent years, a new approach to dealing with intoxicated driving has begun to take hold.

Traditional methods focus on the driving aspect of impaired driving by doing things like revoking a person’s driver’s license or requiring the driver to install an ignition interlock that tests for alcohol on the driver’s breath before allowing the vehicle to start.

In some areas, the focus has shifted to the other part of the equation — drinking.

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A Tesla owner’s excuse for his DUI crash

The driver had a blood-alcohol content nearly double the legal limit and a tenuous relationship with consciousness when his car slammed into the back of a parked fire truck on San Francisco’s Bay Bridge.

Still, he became maybe the first to add a technologically advanced new entry to the list of drunken driving excuses.

He wasn’t driving, the man told the highway patrolman Monday morning. The car was.

According to the California Highway Patrol, the driver explained that his Tesla electric vehicle “had been set on autopilot,” obviating the need for him to be in control of the vehicle or, well, sober.

He was wrong, of course, and was ultimately jailed under suspicion of driving under the influence. But as word of another Tesla autopilot crash spread, the case of car as designated driver became an interesting thought exercise for anyone with more than a passing interest in vehicles that drive themselves.

If Elon Musk and other forward-thinking automakers have their way, there will soon be a time when there is no more drunken driving, because cars never have to wonder whether they’ve had one too many vodka martinis.

But until we all have our own computer-controlled, two-ton chauffeurs, we’re left with an increasing number of cars with a raft of features that make them semi-autonomous — vehicles that are safer and smarter, if not particularly geniuses.

Carmakers are transparent about that caveat emptor quality of their vehicles.

Read the full article here: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/01/23/a-tesla-owners-excuse-for-his-dui-crash-the-car-was-driving.html

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Norwegian billionaire tobacco heiress given $38,750 drunk-driving fine

A 22-year-old Norwegian student has been handed a 250,000-kroner ($38,750 Canadian) fine for drunken driving — but can still count herself lucky. Katharina G. Andresen is reportedly Norway’s richest woman, a tobacco heiress with a fortune estimated by Forbes at $1.57 billion. Fines for drunken driving in Norway are based on the defendant’s income. Newspaper Finansavisen reported that Oslo City Court said the penalty could have been up to 40 million kroner ($6.2 million) if based on Andresen’s assets.

Read the full article here: https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/11/17/norwegian-billionaire-tobacco-heiress-given-38750-drunk-driving-fine.html

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