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Accident Driver Accused of Having Sex at 85mph

Drunk was speeding, having sex, and partly in backseat, lawsuit claims

(Newser) - A driver who crashed into a taxi on Washington's Beltway last year was having one hell of a 21st birthday, according to a court case that caught the eye of the Washington Post . A lawsuit filed by the driver of the taxi states that at the time of the...

Jersey Drunken Driver Gets to Sue the Bar That Served Him
 Jersey Drunken Driver 
 Can Sue His Bar 
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Jun 4, 2011 6:56 AM CDT

Jersey Drunken Driver Can Sue His Bar

State's top court sides with motorcyclist who drank too much

(Newser) - Bartenders, beware: The New Jersey Supreme Court has given a drunken driver the right to sue the bar that served him, reports the Asbury Park Press . When Frederick Voss crashed his motorcycle in 2006, his blood-alcohol level was .196%—almost two and a half times the legal limit. Voss pleaded...

Woman Passes Out, Wakes Up, Runs Over Husband

Texas driver charged with DWI

(Newser) - A Texas woman passed out at a red light, awoke as her husband tried to rouse her, then drove off dragging him along outside the car, KDAF-TV reports. Police suspect 50-year-old Mary Jane Lane (yes, her real name) passed out while under the influence of prescription drugs at the stop...

Harry Reid & Co. Want to Kill Checkpoint-Dodging Apps

Apple, Google urged to stop selling apps that help drivers dodge police

(Newser) - Want to know if there's a checkpoint ahead targeting speeders or drunk drivers? There's an app for that—many, in fact—but Harry Reid, Chuck Schumer, Frank Lautenberg, and Tom Udall say there shouldn't be. The four senators have written to Apple, Google, and BlackBerry, urging the companies to stop...

Man Brings Beer to DWI Hearing
 Man Brings Beer to DWI Hearing 
Mar 23, 2011 5:27 AM CDT

Man Brings Beer to DWI Hearing

New Yorker Keith Gruber jailed after showing up with open can

(Newser) - Late, drunk, and carrying an open can of Busch beer is no way to show up to a DWI hearing. Upstate New Yorker Keith Gruber—who has prior DWI convictions—was more than an hour late for the 10:30am hearing and had four more unopened cans of beer in...

Notre Dame Star Faces Expulsion for Drunk Driving

Michael Floyd's season on the line after second alcohol-related offense

(Newser) - Notre Dame’s top receiver chose to forgo the NFL and stick around for his senior season this fall; now, that season’s in jeopardy. Michael Floyd was arrested yesterday on an operating while intoxicated charge, police tell the Chicago Tribune . With a 2010 underage drinking citation already on Floyd’...

Ex-MADD Honcho Arrested for Drunk Driving
Ex-MADD Honcho Arrested for Drunk Driving
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Feb 25, 2011 8:31 AM CST

Ex-MADD Honcho Arrested for Drunk Driving

Debra Oberlin, head of Gainesville chapter in the '90s, blew .239

(Newser) - Pro tip: If you’re going to crusade against drunk driving, you should probably avoid doing it yourself. Actually, you should probably avoid doing it regardless. But these lessons were lost on Debra Oberlin, the former head of the Gainesville, Fla., chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. The 48-year-old was...

Drunk Driver Busted With 15 Sheep in His Mercedes

Oh, and his blood alcohol level was 32 times the legal limit

(Newser) - What's the more jaw-dropping figure: that a drunk driver's blood alcohol level was 32 times the legal limit, or that said drunk driver was arrested with 15 sheep in his car? Both were true for one man arrested near Queenstown, South Africa, on Wednesday night. He had 15 sheep, allegedly...

And the State With the Booziest Drivers Is...

...Wisconsin, followed closely by North Dakota

(Newser) - America's drivers are a boozy bunch: Some 30 million admitted to driving drunk within the last year and more than 10 million drove while high on drugs, according to a new report. But those numbers actually show progress, notes MSNBC . The survey of the years 2006 through 2009 found an...

Man Who Drank After Accident Acquitted of DWI

His defense: He needed alcohol to keep warm while stranded

(Newser) - A Missouri man was acquitted of drunk driving charges … because, he argued, he got drunk after, not before, his accident. Thomas Drummond claims he was out with friends on the February night in question when bad weather forced him to take a different route home. He missed a turn...

US Agents Were Boozing on Nuke Transport Missions

Energy watchdog exposes intoxicated nuclear weapons techs

(Newser) - Driving nuclear weapons around must be either tedious or stressful: While agents employed to do just that haven't been caught drunk behind the wheel, feds find that some have been boozing it up while on missions, the AP reports. A recent report by the US Energy Department's inspector general cites...

Driver Who Killed Teen Suing Victim's Parents

He claims they are at fault for allowing son to ride bike in street

(Newser) - David Weaving, a 48-year-old with five drunk driving arrests, was convicted last year of running over and killing 14-year-old Matthew Kenney—but now he’s suing Matthew’s parents. Weaving was accused of unsafely passing a car at 83mph in a 45mph zone when he struck Matthew, who was riding...

David Cassidy Arrested for DUI, Swears He Didn't Drive Drunk
 David Cassidy Hit With DUI 
Nov 4, 2010 12:33 PM CDT

David Cassidy Hit With DUI

Former teen idol insists he didn't do it

(Newser) - Former teen heartthrob David Cassidy was arrested yesterday for allegedly driving under the influence. The Partridge Family star, 60, was pulled over after a cop saw him weaving on the Florida Turnpike, the Palm Beach Post reports. Cassidy said he’d had a glass of wine at lunch and took...

Let's Do Away With Drunk-Driving Laws
 Let's Do Away With 
 Drunk-Driving Laws 
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Oct 16, 2010 7:00 PM CDT

Let's Do Away With Drunk-Driving Laws

Essay: They actually make roads more dangerous

(Newser) - Laws against drunken driving are admirable in intent, but a case can be made (with stats to back it up) that they actually make our roads less safe, argues Radley Balko in Reason . Measuring blood-alcohol levels is misguided given the vast differences in how individuals handle their booze. Police, meanwhile,...

Convicted of DWI, CEO Runs Company From Jail

Sixty-day sentence makes him first of publicly traded firm

(Newser) - First he drank. Then he drove. Then he was thrown in jail. Finally, Louis Lower, the 65-year-old CEO of Horace Mann Educators Corp., a publicly traded insurance company, decided to tell his board of directors that he would be unavailable for 60 days while he served his sentence in a...

Feds: 17M Drive Drunk
 Feds: 17M Drive Drunk 
Aug 26, 2010 6:45 AM CDT

Feds: 17M Drive Drunk

Poll shows 8% admit they drive when they shouldn't

(Newser) - There are an uncomfortable number of drunk drivers out there, according to a new survey from the Department of Transportation. In the poll, 8% of respondents admitted to driving drunk—a number that, if representational, would equate to roughly 17 million Americans. And that’s just those willing to admit...

Mom, Dad Get DWIs After Daughter's Traffic Stop

(Newser) - When a vehicle containing marijuana paraphernalia was stopped at a DWI checkpoint in New Jersey last weekend, two 18-year-old boys and two 15-year-old girls were inside, and police called their parents to pick up them up. First problem: When the 46-year-old mother of one of the girls showed up, police...

Bride Busted for Drunk Driving ...on Wedding Day

Apparently the bachelorette party lasted all night

(Newser) - And this is why you should never plan your bachelorette party for the night before your wedding: A Washington bride barely made it to her nuptials after being arrested on suspicion of drunk driving just hours before the big event. The 31-year-old was pulled over 6am yesterday with a blood...

Driver Gets DWI After 11-Mile Ride Sans Tire

Oh, and he's been unlicensed since 1977. And couldn't keep right

(Newser) - So your blood-alcohol content is 3.5 times the limit and you haven't had a driver's license in 33 years—let's go for a drive! And so a tire falls off—let's keep going 11 miles without it! Western New Yorker Duane Bush is charged with doing just that, along...

12-Year-Old Girl Busted for Drunk Driving

An older guy asked her to drive him home

(Newser) - A Minnesota sheriff’s deputy got quite a shock Saturday when he arrived at the scene of an accident to discover that the driver was 12 years old and seemingly drunk. This was especially strange because there was a teenager in the car who, though he was also drunk, at...

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