|
|
News and Articles on Driving Under The Influence
The tragedy of drunk driving has effected the lives of many people. These articles reflect on the many incidents of drunk driving and their effects on local communities. We encourage you to Submit articles which represent the effects of drunk driving on your community.
| VIDEO: Half Of Teens Are Still Texting And Driving May 15, 2012 |
| AT&T's Textng & Driving Campaign Urges Consumers That 'It Can Wait. This documentary featuring families affected by texting while behind the wheel is being distributed to educators, government officials, safety organizations and public as part of a educational awareness campaign. (Every 15 Minutes Program News & Media) |
| |
| Two Teens Killed While Helping Friend Alongside Road Apr 19, 2012 |
| EL PASO, Texas -- Two teenagers, who had stopped on the side of the road to help a stalled driver, were killed when a man police suspect was drunk crashed into them late Friday evening in northeast El Paso, said police officials.
An investigation revealed that 17-year-old Mark Dobbs who was driving a Nissan Sentra was stalled on the outside shoulder of the eastbound lanes of Loop 375.
The two victims, Jon Cervoni, 16, and Aaron Carrillo, 16, arrived to assist Dobbs. They were driving a Honda. All three of them were in a band together, and had just finished playing a show at a local church.
(Every 15 Minutes Program News & Media) |
| |
| 10 Year Sentence After Fatal Drunk Driving Crash Apr 17, 2012 |
| VIDEO -BELLEFONTAINE -- A man has been sentenced to a decade behind bars after being convicted of killing a teen while driving drunk.
Christie Reames, 53, appeared in Logan Co. Common Pleas Court this morning, with more than 30 friends and relatives of the teenager he killed sitting behind him in the gallery.
Reames was nearly three times the limit for drunk driving when he slammed into a car driven by Paige Horn's father. (Every 15 Minutes Program News & Media) |
| |
| Teen Pleads Guilty To Drunk Driving Crash That Killed Friend Apr 17, 2012 |
| A teenager from Barry County has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for a May 2010 drunk driving crash that claimed the life of another teen.
Sierra Nicole Wood, 19, of Purdy, made the surprise plea as 62 potential jurors waited outside the courtroom just as her trial was set to get underway this morning in Barry County.
Prosecutors Johnnie Cox says Wood was drunk when she lost control of her 2002 Chevy, ran off the road and flipped the vehicle on Missouri 76 just west of Cassville ejecting 17 year-old Jessica Nicole Pettengill. (Every 15 Minutes News & Media) |
| |
| DUI deaths in Missoula highlight a stubborn drinking culture Apr 11, 2012 |
| Shaina Fuller stood on the roadside along Hillview Way and cried and cried and cried.
She’d just returned from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where her 21-year-old stepbrother, Nic Platz, remains in the intensive care unit with injuries he suffered a week ago in a crash on Hillview.
The 3:15 a.m. wreck killed two of his friends, Jason McDonald, 20, and Josh Gruebele, 18.
Justin Barber, 21, the car’s driver, is jailed on $500,000 bail, charged with vehicular homicide while under the influence, and with injuring Platz.
(Every 15 Minutes Program News & Media)
|
| |
| Texting and driving: 'Kids think they're invincible' Apr 11, 2012 |
| Bright, outgoing college teen Taylor Sauer proved in the last minutes of her life she knew right from wrong — but still committed a fatal mistake.
Sauer was making a late-night, four-hour drive from the Utah State University campus in Logan to visit her folks in Caldwell, Idaho. She passed the time along I-84 messaging a pal on Facebook about the Denver Broncos football team. But she stopped short, writing in her final missive, "I can't discuss this now. Driving and facebooking is not safe! Haha." (Every 15 Minutes Program News & Media) |
| |
| It's time to get real about distracted driving Apr 11, 2012 |
| Police in Concord are trying to determine whether the teenage driver of an SUV who killed a father and daughter in a traffic accident Saturday morning was using a cell phone at the time of the accident.
The practice of talking or texting behind the wheel has become so commonplace, it's a reasonable and necessary question.
Witnesses told police the 17-year-old driver was speeding when he jumped the curb at busy Treat Boulevard, striking Solaiman Nuri and his 9-year-old daughter, Hadessa Nuri, as they rode their bikes on the sidewalk.
Solaiman, an Afghan immigrant, died right there. His daughter died at the hospital a short time later. Another daughter, 12, was also hit. She was hospitalized with minor injuries. (Every 15 Minutes Program News & Media)
|
| |
| STAY CALM DAD Amazing 911 Apr 3, 2012 |
| Savannah, 5-year-old's amazing 911 call saves her dad's life.
Savannah... An Amazing 5-years-old-Girl Who is blessed with courage and grace and yes It took a five-year-old girl to save her father's life. She remains calm on the phone talk to the 911 operator.” She also try to get her dad to stay calm by using her own angelic words. She's Truly His Little angel Now! (Every 15 Minutes News & Media)
|
| |
| 8 years in prison for killing MassDOT worker in Framingham crash Read Mar 28, 2012 |
| WOBURN —
The Maine man who pleaded guilty Monday to killing a Framingham man in a drunken driving crash in 2010 was sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday.
Judge Sandra Hamlin sentenced Jeremy Gardner, 30, to eight years in state prison.
Gardner, a resident of Bridgton, Maine, was convicted of vehicular homicide, leaving the scene of an accident causing death, OUI (subsequent offense) and leaving the scene of an accident that caused property damage.
On Sept. 14, 2010, at 10:45 p.m., Gardner drove through a construction zone on Rte. 9 in Framingham and struck and killed state Department of Transportation worker Gregory Vilidnitsky
(Every 15 Minutes News & Media)
|
| |
| Bobby Brown arrested for driving under the influence. Mar 28, 2012 |
| Whitney Houston's ex-hubby Bobby Brown was arrested and hauled to jail Monday on suspicion of driving under the influence in Southern California.
The singer, 43, was pulled over around 12:05 p.m. in the San Fernando Valley, about two miles from his Encino residence, according to the California Highway Patrol.
"He was driving and talking on his cell phone," Officer Tiana Reed told the Daily News. "Officers, when contacting him, noted intoxication on him -- the smell of alcohol -- and they performed some field sobriety tests."
She said Brown was arrested at 12:20 p.m. and booked into a Los Angeles Police Department jail. (Every 15 Minutes News & Media)
|
| |
| Drunk driver James Carrick admits causing Ryan Bell's death Mar 28, 2012 |
| A teenage drunk driver has admitted causing the death of his 15-year-old friend after crashing while trying to get away from a police car in Glasgow.
James Carrick, 18, was almost twice the drink-drive limit, when he smashed into a parked car, a fence and a wall in the Drumchapel area in March last year.
Ryan Bell died at the scene. Carrick, and two teenage girls who were also passengers, were injured. (Every 15 Minutes News & Media) |
| |
| Several charged in classmate's death face judge Mar 14, 2012 |
| Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth Molloy died on Jan. 7, after a SUV she was riding went out of control in the 6700-block of Rainwater Road in north Raleigh, then crashed into a tree and burst into flames.
A medical examiner's report revealed Molloy was legally drunk at the time of her death. Search warrants later showed police found a shot glass and a plastic bag that smelled like marijuana inside the SUV.
On Wednesday morning, 21-year-old Anthony Du Juan Geter, 17-year-old Samantha M. McKinney and 18-year-old Hannah R. Smith, appeared in court for their involvement in the fatal accident.
(Every 15 Minutes Program News & Media) |
| |
| VIDEO: Memorial Held For 10-Year-Old Killed By Suspected Drunken Drive Mar 12, 2012 |
| ARLINGTON (CBSDFW.COM) – Friends, neighbors and family gathered together at a memorial for Tavian Sabur, a 10-year-old who died Thursday after being hit by a suspected drunken driver.
Holding a vigil with candlelight and glow sticks, the group remembered their friend who was on his way to Peewee football practice.
Balloons, cards and teddy bears sat next to a stop sign where the crash happened Thursday evening.
“He was a really good friend and he never yelled at anyone,” said 10-year-old Nisaa Bennett at the memorial. “In fourth grade he shared his snack with me if I didn’t have one.”
Friends and family called him T.J. (Every 15 Minutes News & Media) |
| |
| State Farm grant to fund impaired driving simulator for Injury Prevent Mar 7, 2012 |
| Statistics show that a teenager dies at a rate of one every 15 minutes on roadways in the United States. ”Distracted driving is a major cause. Texting and cell phone use is becoming a much larger problem and most people do not realize just how dangerous those two things are when driving,” Calkins said. (Every 15 Minutes Program News & Media) |
| |
| Immunize underage drinkers from criminal charges Mar 7, 2012 |
| Law into effect that would immunize underage drinkers from criminal charges if they are seeking medical attention for another person. The purpose of this law is to encourage underage drinkers to call for help if they see another person who is “in need of immediate medical attention to prevent death or serious injury.”
To qualify for amnesty under the new law, a person must show that the only reason why law enforcement became aware of the underage drinking (or possession of alcohol) was because
1.) the underaged person called for help in a situation where they reasonably believed that another person was in need of serious medical attention,
2.) the underaged person reasonably believed that he was the first to call for help,
3.) the underaged person gave his name to the emergency responder when he called for help,
4.) the underaged person stayed with the person suffering a medical emergency until help arrived and his presence is no longer necessary. (Every 15 Minutes News & Media)
|
| |
|
 |
