NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- The Orange County District Attorney's Office filed charges Thursday against a drunk driver, for killing a bicyclist after driving into the bicycle lane while texting.
Danae Marie Miller, 22 from Newport Coast, is charged with one felony count of vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.
On Feb. 21, Miller is accused of consuming alcohol at her workplace, Zinc Café. At approximately 6 p.m., Miller is accused of driving her car on San Joaquin Hills Road. At the same time, 41-year-old Amine Britel was riding his bicycle in a marked bicycle lane. Miller is accused of repeatedly text messaging on her cell phone while driving into the bicycle lane, hitting Britel from behind.
Witnesses and Miller called 911. Britel died at the scene. Miller is accused of having a blood alcohol content of .10 percent.
Miller is out of custody on $100,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned April 4. If convicted, she faces a maximum sentence of 10 years in state prison.
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
UC police urge safe holiday celebrations
UC police urge safe holiday celebrations
Posted: Saturday, March 12, 2011 12:28 am
For many Americans, St. Patrick’s Day has become a popular night out to celebrate with friends and family.
Unfortunately, due to the large volume of impaired drivers, the night out has also become very dangerous.
The Union City Police Department will kick off a “Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving” campaign Sunday and it will continue through March 19 — encompassing St. Patrick’s Day on Thursday.
Union City police will conduct sobriety check points from 10 p.m. Thursday until 4 a.m. March 18 in the vicinity of the National Guard armory on East Reelfoot Avenue and County Marketplace on West Reelfoot Avenue.
“Whether you are meeting a few friends at the local pub after work or attending a local party, if you plan on using alcohol, never drive while impaired — and never let your friends drive if you think they are impaired,” Union City Police Chief Joe Garner said. “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.”
Following these steps, a driver can enjoy a safe St. Patrick’s Day without jeopardizing their life or the lives of others who may be on the road. Tips include:
• Plan a safe way home before the festivities begin.
• Before drinking, designate a sober driver and give that person your keys.
• If you’re impaired, call a sober friend or family member or use public transportation to ensure getting home safely.
• If you happen to see a drunk driver on the road, don’t hesitate to contact local law enforcement.
• If you know someone who is about to drive or ride while impaired, take their keys and help them make other arrangements to get to where they are going safely.
On St. Patrick’s Day 2009, 37 percent of the drivers and motorcyclists involved in fatal crashes had a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .08 or above, according to statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Posted: Saturday, March 12, 2011 12:28 am
For many Americans, St. Patrick’s Day has become a popular night out to celebrate with friends and family.
Unfortunately, due to the large volume of impaired drivers, the night out has also become very dangerous.
The Union City Police Department will kick off a “Buzzed Driving Is Drunk Driving” campaign Sunday and it will continue through March 19 — encompassing St. Patrick’s Day on Thursday.
Union City police will conduct sobriety check points from 10 p.m. Thursday until 4 a.m. March 18 in the vicinity of the National Guard armory on East Reelfoot Avenue and County Marketplace on West Reelfoot Avenue.
“Whether you are meeting a few friends at the local pub after work or attending a local party, if you plan on using alcohol, never drive while impaired — and never let your friends drive if you think they are impaired,” Union City Police Chief Joe Garner said. “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk.”
Following these steps, a driver can enjoy a safe St. Patrick’s Day without jeopardizing their life or the lives of others who may be on the road. Tips include:
• Plan a safe way home before the festivities begin.
• Before drinking, designate a sober driver and give that person your keys.
• If you’re impaired, call a sober friend or family member or use public transportation to ensure getting home safely.
• If you happen to see a drunk driver on the road, don’t hesitate to contact local law enforcement.
• If you know someone who is about to drive or ride while impaired, take their keys and help them make other arrangements to get to where they are going safely.
On St. Patrick’s Day 2009, 37 percent of the drivers and motorcyclists involved in fatal crashes had a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .08 or above, according to statistics from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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Milwaukee area billboard to target drunk drivers
MILWAUKEE The family and friends of a woman killed by an alleged drunken driver on New Year's morning are trying to raise awareness of the dangers of drinking and driving.
They plan to unveil a public service message on an electronic billboard Saturday in the Interstate 94 corridor where 34-year-old Corrie Damske, of Wauwatosa, died.
Damske was heading home at 7:15 a.m. after spending the night at a friend's when she was struck head-on by Leopoldo Salas Gayton, an alleged drunk driver going the wrong way on I-94.
The timing of the billboard is targeted at the St. Patrick's Day celebrations. A representative is expected to speak on behalf of the family at the unveiling.
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They plan to unveil a public service message on an electronic billboard Saturday in the Interstate 94 corridor where 34-year-old Corrie Damske, of Wauwatosa, died.
Damske was heading home at 7:15 a.m. after spending the night at a friend's when she was struck head-on by Leopoldo Salas Gayton, an alleged drunk driver going the wrong way on I-94.
The timing of the billboard is targeted at the St. Patrick's Day celebrations. A representative is expected to speak on behalf of the family at the unveiling.
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Monday, March 7, 2011
Authorities crack down on underage drinking and driving
State police are reminding teenagers that if they drink and drive this prom season, they could pay some severe consequences.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- State police are reminding teenagers that if they drink and drive this prom season, they could pay some severe consequences.
The Arkansas State Police Highway Safety Office announced Monday that state, county and city law enforcement agencies will join forces March 11-20 and April 15-24 looking for drunk drivers with an emphasis on those under 21 years of age.
Officers will conduct additional sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols as part of the continuing effort to apprehend drunk drivers.
According to state police, motor vehicle crashes remain the number one killer of teenagers in America, and nearly one-third of the fatality crashes are alcohol related.
Spring, the season of proms, school breaks and graduation parties, can be a dangerous time for young drivers. Alcohol-related traffic fatalities typically rise during these months, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The consequences of a DWI or DUI are far more serious than an impaired driver may realize. Arkansas teenagers driving with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) between .02 and .07 can be arrested for Driving Under the Influence (DUI). If the BAC is .08 or greater, an arrest of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) will occur.
Arkansas' penalties for underage DUI are substantial and include the loss of driving privileges, court imposed fines and community service. The fine for an underage DUI ranges from $100 to $2000. In addition, there are attorney's fees and significantly higher insurance premiums.
If an underage driver registers a BAC of .08 or above, law enforcement officers are required to charge the violator with Driving While Intoxicated (DWI), which is the same as an adult offense and has identical consequences of jail sentences, fines, court costs, community service, license suspension, higher insurance premiums and possibly other related costs.
"There's even a greater cost to pay in personal anguish that lives forever when death or serious injury has been the result of a drunk driver," said Colonel Winford E. Phillips, Director of the Arkansas State Police and Governor's Highway Safety Representative. "We are asking teenagers to stop and consider all the consequences before being caught and arrested for drunk driving."
The current education campaign is designed to increase awareness of the dangers associated with teenage drinking and driving through heightened enforcement operations, paid media and school-based educational activities.
"We want to be sure that young people get the message that underage drinking and driving is a crime that will not be tolerated," Colonel Phillips said.
SOURCE
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KTHV) -- State police are reminding teenagers that if they drink and drive this prom season, they could pay some severe consequences.
The Arkansas State Police Highway Safety Office announced Monday that state, county and city law enforcement agencies will join forces March 11-20 and April 15-24 looking for drunk drivers with an emphasis on those under 21 years of age.
Officers will conduct additional sobriety checkpoints and saturation patrols as part of the continuing effort to apprehend drunk drivers.
According to state police, motor vehicle crashes remain the number one killer of teenagers in America, and nearly one-third of the fatality crashes are alcohol related.
Spring, the season of proms, school breaks and graduation parties, can be a dangerous time for young drivers. Alcohol-related traffic fatalities typically rise during these months, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The consequences of a DWI or DUI are far more serious than an impaired driver may realize. Arkansas teenagers driving with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) between .02 and .07 can be arrested for Driving Under the Influence (DUI). If the BAC is .08 or greater, an arrest of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) will occur.
Arkansas' penalties for underage DUI are substantial and include the loss of driving privileges, court imposed fines and community service. The fine for an underage DUI ranges from $100 to $2000. In addition, there are attorney's fees and significantly higher insurance premiums.
If an underage driver registers a BAC of .08 or above, law enforcement officers are required to charge the violator with Driving While Intoxicated (DWI), which is the same as an adult offense and has identical consequences of jail sentences, fines, court costs, community service, license suspension, higher insurance premiums and possibly other related costs.
"There's even a greater cost to pay in personal anguish that lives forever when death or serious injury has been the result of a drunk driver," said Colonel Winford E. Phillips, Director of the Arkansas State Police and Governor's Highway Safety Representative. "We are asking teenagers to stop and consider all the consequences before being caught and arrested for drunk driving."
The current education campaign is designed to increase awareness of the dangers associated with teenage drinking and driving through heightened enforcement operations, paid media and school-based educational activities.
"We want to be sure that young people get the message that underage drinking and driving is a crime that will not be tolerated," Colonel Phillips said.
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MADD not impressed by Vallario drunk-driving bill
A bill introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph Vallario to deal with the issue of installing ignition interlock devices on the vehicles owned by convicted drunk drivers is being dismissed by MADD Maryland as accomplishing nothing that doesn't exist under current law.
"Twelve pages of nothing," MADD Maryland executive director Caroline Cash calls it.
The bill, which had 30 co-sponsors from both parties, is one of several that have been introduced during the current General Assembly session on the topic of ignition interlock technology, which prevents a motorist from starting a car after consuming alcohol.
MADD supports legislation that would make installation of such devices mandatory for all those convicted on driving under the influence. Such a bill passed thhe Senate last year only to die in the Judiciary Committee when Vallario declined to bring it up for a vote.
This year the Prince George's County Democrat has weighed in with his own bill, but MADD isn't impressed. "It does nothing to increase the use if interlock -- let alone save lives and prevent injuries," said Caroline Cash, executive director of MADD Maryland.
Cash said she had at first been encouraged when she heard Vallario was proposing his own bill. But once interlock proponents read the full bill, they realized there was nothing mandatory about it, she said.
MADD supports a bill called the Drunk Driving Elimination Act, sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Jamie Raskin and in the House by Del. Benjamin F. Kramer, both Montgomery County Democrats.
Cash said MADD would raise the issue with House Speaker Michael E. Busch, who decided to retain Vallario as chairman despite protests last year from women delegates over the treatment of witnesses before the committee. She said the chairman's proposed bill isn't even as strong as the compromise legislation MADD rejected as too weak last year.
The Vallario bill would require drivers who are found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.15 percent or more -- or those who refuse an alcohol test -- to enter an ignition interlock program in order to avert a driver's license suspension. But Cash said that is no more than drivers are permitted to do now, adding that many drivers simply accept the suspension but continue driving anyway.
Vallario's role is crucial because as chairman he can prevent any bill he opposes from getting a vote in committee. In practical terms only the speaker, who appoints committee chairs, has the authority to tell him to bring a bill to a vote.
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"Twelve pages of nothing," MADD Maryland executive director Caroline Cash calls it.
The bill, which had 30 co-sponsors from both parties, is one of several that have been introduced during the current General Assembly session on the topic of ignition interlock technology, which prevents a motorist from starting a car after consuming alcohol.
MADD supports legislation that would make installation of such devices mandatory for all those convicted on driving under the influence. Such a bill passed thhe Senate last year only to die in the Judiciary Committee when Vallario declined to bring it up for a vote.
This year the Prince George's County Democrat has weighed in with his own bill, but MADD isn't impressed. "It does nothing to increase the use if interlock -- let alone save lives and prevent injuries," said Caroline Cash, executive director of MADD Maryland.
Cash said she had at first been encouraged when she heard Vallario was proposing his own bill. But once interlock proponents read the full bill, they realized there was nothing mandatory about it, she said.
MADD supports a bill called the Drunk Driving Elimination Act, sponsored in the Senate by Sen. Jamie Raskin and in the House by Del. Benjamin F. Kramer, both Montgomery County Democrats.
Cash said MADD would raise the issue with House Speaker Michael E. Busch, who decided to retain Vallario as chairman despite protests last year from women delegates over the treatment of witnesses before the committee. She said the chairman's proposed bill isn't even as strong as the compromise legislation MADD rejected as too weak last year.
The Vallario bill would require drivers who are found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.15 percent or more -- or those who refuse an alcohol test -- to enter an ignition interlock program in order to avert a driver's license suspension. But Cash said that is no more than drivers are permitted to do now, adding that many drivers simply accept the suspension but continue driving anyway.
Vallario's role is crucial because as chairman he can prevent any bill he opposes from getting a vote in committee. In practical terms only the speaker, who appoints committee chairs, has the authority to tell him to bring a bill to a vote.
SOURCE
Edwards says he wants to return to Jets, and they want him back
Jets wide receiver Braylon Edwards made a brief appearance in Manhattan criminal court this morning in an attempt to get his September 2010 drunk driving arrest tossed.
The 28-year-old free agent told reporters he still wants to play for the Jets this coming season, and his attorney filed legal motions challenging the accuracy of the blood alcohol exams that show Edwards was twice over the legal limit.
"I talked to Rex ... a couple of days ago, more a catching up type of thing," Edwards said after the hearing, referring to Jets head coach Rex Ryan. "The interest is there on their side. The interest is there on my side, so we have to wait to see what happens."
Last Sept. 21, police pulled over Edwards’ Range Rover on 12th Avenue near 34th Street for having excessively tinted windows. Cops said he appeared intoxicated and blew 0.16 (twice the legal limit) on a Breathalyzer test.
His attorney, Peter Frankel, filed routine motions challenging the accuracy of the two tests Edwards was given, one in the field and one back at the precinct, that indicated the star player was drunk.
The case was adjourned until May 16.
Since the season ended, Edwards, who denies being drunk at the wheel, said he’s been taking it easy and relaxing, but the Jets remain foremost on his mind.
"I definitely still want to be a Jet. Everyone knows that," he said. "If they give me the opportunity, I definitely want to come back and maybe take advantage of that championship this year. Maybe we’ll win one.
"One more time, I love being a Jet."
Edwards and all other NFL players can not sign new contracts until the league's labor situation is resolved. The deadline on the expiring collective bargaining agreement was extended one week to this coming Friday.
The drunk driving charge isn’t Edwards' first brush with the law. Two days before he was traded to the Jets in October 2009 he allegedly punched a local party promoter at a Cleveland nightclub.
He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor assault charge and was given probation.
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The 28-year-old free agent told reporters he still wants to play for the Jets this coming season, and his attorney filed legal motions challenging the accuracy of the blood alcohol exams that show Edwards was twice over the legal limit.
"I talked to Rex ... a couple of days ago, more a catching up type of thing," Edwards said after the hearing, referring to Jets head coach Rex Ryan. "The interest is there on their side. The interest is there on my side, so we have to wait to see what happens."
Last Sept. 21, police pulled over Edwards’ Range Rover on 12th Avenue near 34th Street for having excessively tinted windows. Cops said he appeared intoxicated and blew 0.16 (twice the legal limit) on a Breathalyzer test.
His attorney, Peter Frankel, filed routine motions challenging the accuracy of the two tests Edwards was given, one in the field and one back at the precinct, that indicated the star player was drunk.
The case was adjourned until May 16.
Since the season ended, Edwards, who denies being drunk at the wheel, said he’s been taking it easy and relaxing, but the Jets remain foremost on his mind.
"I definitely still want to be a Jet. Everyone knows that," he said. "If they give me the opportunity, I definitely want to come back and maybe take advantage of that championship this year. Maybe we’ll win one.
"One more time, I love being a Jet."
Edwards and all other NFL players can not sign new contracts until the league's labor situation is resolved. The deadline on the expiring collective bargaining agreement was extended one week to this coming Friday.
The drunk driving charge isn’t Edwards' first brush with the law. Two days before he was traded to the Jets in October 2009 he allegedly punched a local party promoter at a Cleveland nightclub.
He pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor assault charge and was given probation.
SOURCE
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Message from the CEO of Alco-Buddy Breathalyzer Vending Machines
Message from the CEO of Alco-Buddy discussing business opportunities, profitability, custom wrap designs, advertisement, how easy it is to setup a machine and much more. More information is available at www.alcobuddy.com
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