Currently, about the only people who have a breathalyzer installed on their vehicle are those who are on probation for a DUI offense. However, the technology exists today that even those who have never had a drink in their life may be tested by their cars. The way this will happen is through a federally funded program called the Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety (DADSS).This program began testing...

Apparently, people are still not getting the message that it is NOT OK to drink and drive. The statistics coming out of California for the 2018 holiday season are a bit alarming.• During Christmas weekend, in California, there were more than 1100 DUI arrests. That is almost two hundred more than the just over nine hundred arrests made during the 2017 Christmas weekend.• This past New Year's Eve,...

With the newly accepted legality of marijuana in many jurisdictions, police officers have been searching for a way to measure if a person is technically "under the influence" of THC, the active component in marijuana.The problem is that, unlike with alcohol, there is no "one size fits all" answer. In fact, since THC leaves the body MUCH slower than alcohol does it is currently very difficult to determine...

Given that DUI arrests are still plentiful, implying that people are still not realizing how serious of a crime it is, many states have enacted stiffer DUI laws which took effect at the beginning of the year.Utah is leading the way by lowering its BAC level from .08 to a new .05, which is basically one drink an hour. It is worth noting that they were the first...

It seems unimaginable, but it can happen. An individual entrusted with transporting our children to school get behind the wheel of a school bus, intoxicated. This nightmare scenario happened recently in New Jersey. Fortunately, an adult school bus aide quickly alerted authorities and the driver was apprehended.After picking up the first student of his run, a New Jersey school bus driver proceeded to hit five occupied vehicles, two traffic...