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Texas is one of a handful of states, according to Abby Rogers with Business Insider, with DWI-specific courts. Supporters of such courts say that they're good for rehabilitation. Rogers points to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration data showing a drop of...
Texas law enforcement averted a potentially catastrophic accident last week by apprehending a drunk driver behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler loaded with jet fuel. Although all DWIs are dangerous, drunk truck drivers can cause extremely devastating wrecks because the...
A new study used a federal agency's traffic fatality data to look at the relationship between alcohol or drug consumption and deadly crashes. The numbers are sobering: 57 percent of fatally injured drivers tested positive for at least one substance at the time of...
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), only three percent of truck drivers of large commercial trucks (like 18 wheelers) had consumed any amount of alcohol and then got behind the wheel and caused or were otherwise involved in a fatal...
At least some of the furor against drug and alcohol use has to do with the safety of our roadways. Every time something bad happens, like an alcohol-related truck accident, there is a certain amount of outrage. Any person who drives under the influence of a substance,...
Professor David J. Hanson is an alcohol researcher and has been involved in this area of research for more than 40 years, according to the website Alcohol Problems & Solutions, and among his findings is his opinion that breathalyzers are not 100 percent accurate;...
"Sorry just isn't good enough. I am sorry though ... I took your family away from you. If I could absorb your pain and hurt, I would." That's the 40-year-old woman who was recently convicted of drunk driving, a case that involved the deaths of four people in the...
"I wanted people to know this could happen to anybody," says Tracy Leal, a mother who lost her daughter in a drunk driving accident, as T.J. Aulds reports for the Daily News. Leal is referring to those who are arrested for DWI; she saw that many of the arrestees were...
A drunk driving accident claimed the life of 19-year-old Samantha Martinez, leading to intoxication manslaughter charges against Texas Tech surgical resident Dr. David Patricio Gonzalez-Gibler. The 31-year-old Gonzalez-Gibler is said to have been bar-hopping with two...
In 1993, San Antonio resident Jim Blihgnse was killed by a drunk driver. Now, after 17 years "on the run," as Marvin Hurst reports for KENS 5 News, the drunk driver will be sentenced in Bexar County next week and could get up to 10 years behind bars. As Hurst points...
