Articles Posted in Drunk Driving in Massachusetts

While some national statistics show drunk driving incidents and arrests in somewhat of a decline, this does not appear to be the case everywhere, especially in Marshfield, Massachusetts.

In the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, drunk driving, when used in the criminal context, is actually called operating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor or drugs (OUI) instead of the terms DUI and DWI, which are commonly used in the media and in other jurisdictions.
Continue reading

According to a recent report from Pop Sugar, police arrested a woman for drunk driving who was allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol with her four minor children in the car.

Authorities say they pulled over the 33-year-old mother in Florida on suspicion of drunk driving. Officers noticed she had her four children – ages 4, 3, 1 and 2 months – in the car with her at the time or her arrest.

Police then asked her to submit to a series of Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFSTs), and, while she was willing to perform the tests, she immediately began breastfeeding her newborn baby. While original reports stated defendant was breastfeeding her child while she was driving her vehicle, these accounts have since been corrected to indicate the breastfeeding occurred during the field sobriety test phase of her arrest process.
Continue reading

Police are always looking for creative ideas for public service campaigns to curb drunk driving. One of the reasons for this is drunk driving often results in serious personal injury and lost lives of innocent people who were not driving drunk.

According to a recent news feature from News 6 South Florida, Miami police have come up with a creative idea of their own to warn people about the dangers of drunk driving. The police have taken a standard marked police car with full lights and sirens and painted the rear half of the vehicle to look like an ordinary yellow taxicab.

The police car also features a warning that tells people they should choose their ride home after a night of drinking, in that they can take a cab and get home safe or they can drive drunk and risk getting a ride in a patrol car on their way to a holding cell after being arrested for drunk driving. Police say the car is designed to literally show people the choice they face for how they will end their night.
Continue reading

A Massachusetts woman was recently arrested for driving her minivan drunk at 111 mph.

This news comes from a recent news article published by the Franklin Sun Journal.

Authorities say the incident occurred late on a Sunday afternoon. A state trooper clocked her speed as she passed him on a stretch of road where the speed limit is 55 mph. When she allegedly failed to stop immediately for his activated lights and sirens, he gave chase.

After eventually getting driver to pull over, trooper approached her vehicle and immediately suspected she was under the influence of alcohol. At the state trooper’s barracks, he administered a breath alcohol test on defendant, and she reportedly blew a 0.14. As our Boston drunk driving accident lawyers understand, this is nearly two times the state and federal legal limit of 0.08 grams of ethanol per 100 milliliters of blood.
Continue reading

According to a recent news article form the New York Daily News, a retired New York Police Department (NYPD) officer was just arrested for his alleged involvement in a drunk driving car accident.

Authorities say the 44-year-old NYPD retired veteran crashed his 1999 Toyota sedan into another car being driven by a 35-year-old man making a turn at an intersection. Emergency responders reported immediately to the scene of the alleged drunk driving crash and treated the victim before taking him to a local hospital. According to hospital officials, the victim of this serious drunk driving crash was listed as being in “grave” condition following his arrival to the hospital.

The retired police officer was placed under arrest for suspicion of drunk driving and taken to the local police station, where he was booked and processed before being released with a date to appear in court for his arraignment. It should be noted, this retired police officer has not been convicted of drunk driving or any other crime in connection with his alleged alcohol-related car accident and is presumed innocent unless and until he is found guilty in a court of law.
Continue reading

Being involved in a crash while riding a motorcycle often results in injuries more serious than those those riding in a car, truck or SUV. According to a recent news article from ABC 5 News Boston, a motorcycle rider from Massachusetts was killed in a drunk driving accident.

Authorities say 46-year-old alleged drunk driver turned his car into the path of a motorcycle rider traveling in the opposite direction, and the two motor vehicles collided with each other. Motorcycle operator, a 59-year-old man, died as result of the fatal collision. His daughter, who was riding behind him as a passenger on the motorcycle, was injured in the accident, though her injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.

Authorities also report alleged drunk driver did not remain on the scene, as he attempted to flee at high speed. A witness to the alleged drunk driving accident followed defendant and reported his license plate number and description to the police. Defendant’s vehicle was also damaged in the accident, and witnesses called police when they allegedly saw a car with three wheels driving down the road. Police were able to catch up with defendant, and when they arrived at his location, he had reportedly already fled the car on foot and ran into the woods. At this point, authorities say defendant climbed up a tree, but when their K9 unit located defendant and started barking, he decided to climb back to the ground, and officers placed him under arrest.
Continue reading

According to a recent news article from The Washington Post, a woman who allegedly called herself the “Pothead Princess” was just convicted of drunk driving resulting in two fatalities and sentenced by the court to 24 years in state prison followed by a long period of probation.

Authorities say defendant Tweeted “2 Drunk 2 Care” before getting behind the wheel of her car and driving at speeds up to 80mph. While driving in the wrong direction on Florida’s Sawgrass Expressway at such high rates of speed, she crashed head-on into a car carrying two 21-year-old women returning from a night out.

One of the victims died on the scene of the fatal drunk driving accident, and the other died several days later at a local hospital. As for defendant, she was underage at the time of accident and did not have a driver’s license. Court records show she consumed two “fishbowl sized” margaritas and also had traces of marijuana in her system at the time of the accident.
Continue reading

According to a recent report from Huffington Post, former NFL football player Jerramy Stevens was sentenced to jail following a drunk driving conviction. Stevens, now 35-years-old, played for nine years in the NFL for the Seattle Seahawks and Tampa Bay Buccaneers before retiring. He is now married to U.S. Woman’s Soccer Team goalkeeper Hope Solo.

Authorities say he was pulled over on January 19, 2015 after driving his van without headlights operating in a suburb of Los Angeles. After being placed under arrest, Stevens refused to take a breath test upon police request. At this point, police obtained a search warrant allowing them to draw Steven’s blood to perform a blood test, and police determined his blood alcohol concentration (BAC) was above the legal limit of 0.08 grams of ethanol per 100 milliliters of blood.

Defendant pleaded no contest to driving under the influence and driving with a .08 blood alcohol content (BAC). His sentencing judge sentenced him to 30 days in jail followed by a two-year outpatient alcohol program and four years of probation.
Continue reading

Actor Dalton Gray, best known for his role as Master Mike on American Horror Story, suffered serious personal injury when an alleged drunk driver crashed into his car in Texas, according to Inquisitir. Dalton is 17-years-old.

Authorities say Gray was riding in a vehicle along with some of his friends when, without warning, another vehicle crashed into the side of their vehicle. This type of crash is typically referred to as being t-boned.

Witnesses say Gray suffered a fractured hip, pelvis, and femur, lacerations and bruises on his face, and substantial eye trauma. It has been reported doctors needed to reconstruct a large portion of Gray’s face and extract shards of glass from one of his eyes. He is currently experiencing serious vision problems in that eye, but ophthalmologists believe he will make a complete recovery with respect to his eyesight.
Continue reading