A recent drunk driver in Boxborough accounted for a 48-year-old man’s sixth drunk driving charge, according to the Boston Globe. Boxborough police said the man was spotted by officers for having an expired inspection sticker on his pickup truck near Massachusetts Avenue just before 11 a.m. in late September. When…
A veteran boater recently entered a guilty plea after a fatal boating accident. The driver is accused of being intoxicated during a powerboat accident near Hull that killed one of his passengers, according to the Boston Globe. Two passengers were thrown from the vessel during the accident. The boater was…
According to Massachusetts’ driving records, a 48-year-old female driver was recently charged with both operating under the influence of drugs and motor-vehicle homicide and revealed a shoddy driving record. The woman’s driving history was brought up after a fatal drunk driving car accident in in Stoughton that happened on Route…
According to local police, both alcohol and speed were factors in car accident that took the life of a Milford High graduate and veteran of the war in Afghanistan back in March. The young Manchester man, 24 years old, passed away at a Boston hospital after he drove his vehicle…
Holiday weekends are some of the deadliest times to be driving on our roadways. One main contributing factor to these roadways fatalities is drunk driving accidents in Boston and elsewhere throughout the state. This year, the Massachusetts State Police and a number of local law enforcement agencies across the state…
Holidays bring out an increased number of intoxicated drivers throughout the country. More impaired drivers increase the risks of fatal drunk driving accidents in Massachusetts and elsewhere. Unfortunately, many innocent motorists are injured in these accidents. Recent reports illustrate more arrests in 2011 than in 2010. California was one of…
A man from Lawrence, Massachusetts was recently stripped of his driving privileges — for life. He currently has nine drunk driving convictions on his driving record and is facing a tenth, according to the Eagle-Tribune. The man was most recently arrested on the Ward Hill Connector. He has been arrested…
“There are no set guidelines on this. There’s no national standard on this,” said Alex R. Piquero, a criminology professor at the University of Texas-Dallas, who has studied drunken driving for more than 20 years. “There is a lot of discretion. It’s like a ref on the football field. Everyone…
Nearly 10 percent of drivers in the Bay State have seen their license revoked at one point or another. Massachusetts state records conclude that nearly 617,000 of the state’s 4.7 million licensed drivers have had at lease one type of license suspension or license revocation, according to the Boston Herald.…
Beware drunk drivers! Many local police departments and state police will be increasing enforcement efforts to help reduce the risks of drunk driving accidents in Massachusetts. The increased enforcement efforts will begin this weekend and will continue through Labor Day, according to The Sun Chronicle. Their “Drive Sober or Get…