With daylight savings time ending yesterday comes the increased likelihood of driving drowsy while driving in early morning darkness, according to the National Road Safety Foundation, Inc. (NRSF). “Drowsy driving is a significant cause of traffic crashes,” says David Reich …
Thibodaux Police have already made 100 drunk-driving arrests this year, four times the number posted in all of 2010. Thibodaux’s new Police Chief Scott Silverii tells The Daily Comet of Thibodaux that the increase results from finding problem areas and …
Less than 40 percent of the drunken driving cases filed in Lake County courts in the past five years have resulted in drunken driving convictions, according to a newspaper analysis published Sunday. The Times of Munster found that more than …
A Dracut, Mass., woman has pleaded not guilty to charges that she was drunk when she crashed a van transporting special needs adults in Billerica last week. Melissa Rich pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Lowell District Court to charges including …
A judge has set aside $2,000 in public money for a Jackson woman to hire an expert in her fight against a drunken driving charge. The Clarion-Ledger reported that 46-year-old Jeanette Sterling is charged with aggravated DUI from a 2009 …
Police say a western Indiana fire chief is being held on a preliminary drunken driving charge after his car crashed into a house, killing a man and critically injuring his wife. Parke County Chief Deputy Sheriff Bill Todd tells the …
In the United States, the blood-alcohol limit may be 0.08 percent, but no amount of alcohol seems to be safe for driving, according to a University of California, San Diego sociologist. A new study has found that blood-alcohol levels well …
An alcohol-detection prototype that uses automatic sensors to instantly gauge a driver’s fitness to be on the road has the potential to save thousands of lives, but could be as long as a decade away from everyday use in cars, …
A national study indicates Arkansas ranks second nationally in advancing its road safety laws during the past two years. The national scorecard produced by the Emergency Nurses Association noted Arkansas has passed laws requiring a tougher graduated driver’s license for …
Federal safety officials are calling on states to require all motorcycle riders to wear helmets, citing a surge in fatalities since the late 1990s. Motorcycle deaths have increased over the last decade even as other traffic fatalities have declined, the …