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Tuesday, February 7th, Washington legislators held the first hearing for a bill that would lower the legal limit for a driver's blood alcohol concentration. The new limit sought would be .05% BAC. If the bill is passed, Washington would be the only state in the union with a BAC limit under .08% f...

A pair of Washington lawmakers have teamed up to eliminate the burgeoning problem of device use behind the wheel. While texting and driving laws have been on the books in Washington for almost a decade, they haven't kept pace with the myriad ways phones now harness a driver's attention. Current l...

On a recent Thursday morning, a Washington State trooper busted a drunk driver who had more than six times the legal limit of alcohol in his system. Just before 10:30 a.m., Washington State Patrol dispatchers received a call from a citizen advising that a silver Volvo was being driven erraticall...

A Washington Senate Committee approved legislation that would toughen up penalties for repeat DUI offenders. Drafted by Republican Senator Mike Padden of Spokane Valley, the bill would allow prosecutors to seek a felony charge for fourth time DUI offenders. It requires that the prior 3 conviction...

Tragedy unfolds in Mount Isa, Australia, where a father has been charged in the killing of one of his two sons. Shane Michael Parkes, 34, was allegedly operating a jet ski while "drugged" when he lost control and crashed into his child Tobi, 9, in shallow waters. Parkes openly wept during his hea...

Everyone has lapses in judgement and law enforcement officers are no exception. Earlier this month a hero cop, named police union “Officer of the Year” in 2015, was arrested in Florida for driving under the influence. Sheriff's deputies pulled over the off-duty officer's pickup truck just before...

A suspected drunk driver who crashed his car four times in Seattle on the afternoon of Dec. 31 before finally being arrested, has been charged with vehicular homicide and two counts of hit-and-run. The 23-year-old man admitted to police he had been drinking at a bar when he got into his SUV at a...

A Washington man suspected of being high on drugs when he caused a series of freeway crashes worthy of an action movie chase sequence, caused the interstate melee just hours after he was released from jail on another DUI-related arrest. The 22-year-old is facing charges of driving under the infl...

A Seattle driver faces a decade or more in prison if she is found guilty of a fatal hit-and-run in which she fled the scene with the victim's shopping cart stuck in the grille of the car. The 62-year-old victim was pushing the cart across the street shortly before 7 p.m. earlier this month when ...

Charges against a man who was arrested for a DUI in August of 2015 have finally been dropped. The former defendant, Joseph Schwab, submitted to a chemical blood test at the time of his arrest, which only tested positive for caffeine. The Solano County District Attorney's Office, however, pursued ...

Video from a police body camera has recently been released of Lieutenant Brian Filipiak of Washtenaw County, MI resisting arrest for “super drunk” driving. After refusing a field sobriety test, Filipiak was taken to the police station where his blood alcohol concentration was found to be 0.28, ov...

We are used to hearing stories reported of drunk driving in the news; however, some people may not be aware of the growing phenomena of “drowsy driving.” As you can imagine, it is particularly difficult to prove that someone was drowsy or beginning to fall asleep at the time of an accident, but, ...

Chairman of the liquor license commission in Prince George County, Maryland was arrested this December and charged with a DUI after crashing into two vehicles outside the grand opening of an MGM National Harbor Casino which he had just left. According to the police report, the chair of the liquo...

For a lot of people, this is the time of year for celebrating with family and friends, but for law enforcement officers it is a time for increased patrols as they look for drivers who are impaired. Over the Thanksgiving weekend, Washington State Patrol troopers began their seasonal focus on impa...

A 64-year-old Texas man who repeatedly drove drunk was sentenced last month to 99 years in prison. It was his eighth conviction for driving while intoxicated (DWI). The man, who is from San Marcos about half way between Austin and San Antonio, was spotted by deputies weaving in traffic while driv...

A Snohomish County driver with four prior DUIs on his record, rolled his car earlier this month while driving with a child and another passenger. The single-vehicle rollover occurred just before 1:30 a.m. on Highway 2. The 33-year-old driver left the road, struck a rock wall and flipped his vehi...

A man who hit a Tacoma trick-or-treater with his SUV has been charged with vehicular assault. Bail has been set at $20,000. A person is guilty of vehicular assault if he or she causes substantial bodily harm while driving a vehicle: In a reckless manner; or While under the influence of intox...

A fatal auto accident in Houston has resulted in a civil lawsuit, but because the surviving driver refused to take a field sobriety test, he will not face criminal charges. The 40-year-old Houston high school principal and his passenger were driving along U.S. Highway 290 on the evening of Sept....

An Idaho man who admitted using methamphetamine and marijuana was arrested earlier this month after crashing his car into a Bremerton bus stop, killing a woman and critically injuring a man. The crash occurred just before noon. The driver lost control of his car, drove onto the sidewalk and into...

A Gig Harbor man who drove drunk in Seattle and killed another driver was sentenced to more than seven years in prison this month. The 27-year-old pleaded guilty last month to charges of vehicular homicide and reckless driving in the March late-night crash. At the time of the deadly crash, his b...

A 23-year-old woman driving a U-Haul box truck left a path of destruction in her wake as she sped through an Edmonds neighborhood north of Seattle last month. The woman was suspected of driving under the influence just before 6 a.m., when she tore through the neighborhood, taking out fences, mai...

More than 200 drivers were booked during the recent Independence Day weekend on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Between July 1 and 5, Washington State Patrol troopers arrested 211 motorists on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI). During the same time peri...

A Spokane man suspected of being drunk when he plowed his vehicle into a car killing one teenager and seriously injuring another will still face charges even if blood tests reveal he was not legally drunk. In mid-June, the Washington State Patrol said Ramiro Sanchez, 29, was driving while intoxi...

An Oregon man's drunk driving conviction was reversed by the Oregon Court of Appeals because the man crossed state lines before he pulled over for a Washington State trooper. The June decision reversed the judge's ruling in a 2011 case in which 40-year-old James Edward Keller of Beaverton, Orego...

Facing charges of driving under the influence can be costly and time consuming, but for a commercial driver, it can result in the loss of one's livelihood. Even getting stopped for DUI while off the clock and driving one's own personal vehicle can contribute to the loss of a commercial driver lic...