Donald Middleton of Texas was known by local authorities in Houston, TX to drink to excess and then get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. But it wasn’t his first conviction that stopped him. It wasn’t even his second, third or fourth. In fact, as The New York Times…
Massachusetts state police are beefing up their patrols near highway work zones, particularly in areas with high rates of drunk driving crashes and arrests. The decision, reported by The Boston Globe, comes just days after a road construction crew was mowed down by a drunk driver for the fourth time…
Ray Bourque, a former member, and star, of the Boston Bruins was just arrested on suspicion of driving drunk according to a recent news feature from the Boston Herald. Bourque, who is currently 55-years-old, was charged with tailgating (following too closely), operating a motor vehicle under influence of intoxicating liquor…
Sure, they call it the “drive-in,” but they don’t mean it literally. Police in Weymouth, Massachusetts say that’s what happened recently when a drunk driver crashed into a drive-in restaurant and then took off. The collision occurred around 2:45 a.m. at Jenna’s Drive-In. The fire department first received word of a…
According to a recent news feature from the Boston Herald, a defendant who was convicted of killing a sister and brother in a deadly hit-and-run car accident in Worcester has just been sentenced and could spend the next 11 years in a Massachusetts Correctional Institute (MCI). The 31-year-old defendant had…
Every night in every bar or club in America, there is a good chance there is a person who has had too much to drink and is planning to get behind the wheel of a vehicle where they will be driving under the influence of alcohol. While many people make…
Every drunk driving trial, especially ones involving a serious alcohol-related crash that resulted in a serious person injury, should be taken seriously. Many of these cases will even make the news as a part of a brief public safety story. However, when a state trooper is arrested for drunk driving…
Back in season two of American Idol, Clay Aiken, Ruben Studdard and Rick Smith were all part of the final eight contestants hoping to win the singing competition and reality show, back when the show was very popular. While Smith did not win the contest that year, he did gain…
One of the big issues that has made its way to the United States Supreme Court is whether a driver can be charged with a crime for refusing to submit to an alcohol breath test when asked by police upon a showing of probable cause that the driver is under…
There is no question there is an increasing amount of support for tougher drunk driving laws in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This is not surprising when we consider that more Americans have lost their lives in drunk driving accidents than they have in all recent wars combined. This means that…