Photo: Aero Icarus / Wikimedia Commons A Scottish court sentenced a Delta Air Lines pilot to 10 months in jail after he arrived drunk to fly from Edinburgh International Airport. The New York Times reported that Lawrence B. Russell Jr. was scheduled to fly a Boeing 767 to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, … Read more
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Screenshot: SP Agora Cars are great and all, but it really is hard to beat the cheap thrills you can get on a motorcycle, especially on roads that you wouldn’t normally be able to enjoy a sports car on. The big downside, of course, is that if you crash, injuries are much more common. And … Read more
Screenshot: Local 10 Police officers don’t exactly have the best reputation these days, and one Florida cop’s actions haven’t done much to improve that reputation. As Local 10 reports, on Tuesday, Detective Victor Manuel Montalvo was driving an unmarked Miami-Dade Police Department car when he crashed into another marked police cruiser. He then reportedly pulled … Read more
Screenshot: TAPinto Local When the cops show up to investigate a crash that may have been caused by a drunk driver, you’d like to think that the people involved in the crash would be the only intoxicated people on the scene. Surely, cops can be trusted to remain sober, right? As it turns out, if … Read more
Drunk driving was apparently a big part of American culture all the way up to the 1980s, so you can imagine some folks probably didn’t take too kindly to the fact the gat damn gubment was trying to infringe on their rights to get lit up behind the wheel. That’s exactly what we’re looking at … Read more
Correction: Wednesday, February 15, 2024, 9:27 a.m. ET: A previous headline stated “Just Two States Make Up 40 Percent Of Fatal Drunk Driving Crashes In U.S.” This headline is an incorrect interpretation of the data, and has been updated. Nascar Champ Ryan Blaney On NASCAR: Full Speed Drunk driving is a dangerous scourge on American … Read more
Screenshot: KESQ / YouTube A 27-year-old Texas woman crashed her Land Rover into an electronic signboard in Palm Springs, California last August. The sign ironically read, “Don’t drink and drive.” Local police claim she admitted to drinking a pint of tequila before getting behind the wheel. Yesterday, she pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of willfully … Read more
A Wisconsin man is facing a slew of charges including operating while intoxicated for a crash that killed four people on December 16. If convicted, this would be at least Scott C. Farmer’s fifth drunk driving offense, and the case is shining a light on the state’s drunk driving regulations, according to NBC 26. On … Read more
A Hawaii driver who was falsely arrested for drunk driving in November says a police officer told him to deny further examination at a Pearl City police station. The officer gave Ammon Fepuleai that advice under the pretense of saving him time while being booked for the arrest, which proved to be false and ended … Read more
Atlanta City Council is calling on the Georgia General Assembly to pass a bill that would create harsher penalties for dangerous drivers, including a lifetime driving ban for repeat offenders. If passed, it would target drag and street racers, drunk drivers and superspeeders, Axios reports. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived The bill, known as Erica’s … Read more