Dallas DWI Lawyer Blog

A North Carolina state highway patrol officer resigned after being charged with driving while intoxicated. The officer drove across a center line, drove across the opposite lanes of traffic, ran off the road, and hit a mailbox. The accident prompted his DWI charge.
After hitting the mailbox, the trooper’s car flipped over. There were no other […]

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A teenager in Yuma, Arizona recently was charged with driving under the influence and various misdemeanor charges following an accident in which his white truck hit a parked car. The parked car was  hit with enough force to push it over the curb, across the lawn, and into the house. 
The police department has asked the […]

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A Northern Michigan man was arrested recently for operating his riding lawn mower, or lawn tractor, while drunk. He was arrested after he fell off of his motorized lawn mower and injured himself. Thankfully, no shrubs or other people were injured.
 Witnesses reported the man after they saw him driving in circles in the middle of […]

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A Tarrant County judge has tossed out the blood evidence the prosecution had in a DWI case recently. While collecting blood is legal, it apparently is not legal to have an officer collect the blood, as opposed to a nurse or doctor.
 Following an arrest on suspicion of DWI, a suspect is likely to have blood […]

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Austin, TX – The Austin Police Department has begun training its officers to drive their new Breath Alcohol Testing Unit.  The unit is actually a bus that will allow APD police officers to determine if drivers are intoxicated.  CAPMetro, the city’s public transit entity, has been training the officers using its bus simulator.  […]

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