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What Town Is About to Make Drunk Driving Legal?

Drew Weisholtz — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 16:09:12 +0000

Know when to say, ‘I’ll have another.” Ireland’s Kerry County has approved a proposal which would essentially allow some people to drive drunk. Yup, you read that correctly. Lawmakers have agreed to pass a measure letting local police hand out a get out of jail car to motorists in rural areas whose blood-alcohol level is [...]

A Bad Luck Drunk Driver Slams Into Police Vehicle

Jon Michaels — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:21:02 +0000

Southeast Texas police didn’t need a blood alcohol test to prove 25 year old Calli Dretke was driving drunk. She slammed into a police van, as officers were dealing with another drunk driver.Dretke tried to continue driving and slammed into two other police cars. One officer suffered a broken leg in the madness, meanwhile Dretke [...]

Drunk Driver Crashes Into Mobile DWI Checkpoint

Jeff Easterling — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:18:54 +0000

It did not take a super cop to figure out this guy was DRUNK. Over the weekend police set up a DWI checkpoint in Newton, North Carolina using their mobile command center bus. It was a little in front of 3AM Sunday morning, when Douglas Southard, from Hickory, NC., came along in his red 1989 Camaro.