Area Police Forces Stepping Up DUI Enforcement As Holiday Approaches
July 4th is next weekend, but police throughout Pennsylvania are hitting the streets starting tonight to nab impared drivers.
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July 4th is next weekend, but police throughout Pennsylvania are hitting the streets starting tonight to nab impared drivers.
Public safety officials gathered along the Delaware riverfront to warn against a list of activities that become very dangerous when intoxicants are added.
Police say Jasper tried to harm himself by wrapping a police cruiser seat belt around his neck as a trooper was driving him to a hospital. Police say Jasper head-butted a trooper and tried to grab the officer's firearm.
Prosecutors say defendant Jason Kohler, 42, already on probation with a suspended license because of an earlier DUI crash, was high on drugs and booze last year when he ran a stop sign, crashed, then tried to flee the scene.
Forty-two-year-old Ronald Hazzard seems to have lived up to his name, creating a hazard on the roadway in Delaware.
A woman is dead and a male suspect is under arrest after a deadly crash in Chester County Wednesday morning.
In addition to DUI, the suspect was charged with two counts of Vehicular Assault 2nd, Driving While Suspended or Revoked, Failure to have Insurance in Possession, and Failure to Remain Stopped.
A Chester County man, with 7 prior DUI's, pleaded guilty Monday to a DUI crash that took the life of a 24-year-old man. Now, the victim's family is working with the DA's office to get stiffer penalties for repeat-DUI offenders.
A 19-year-veteran of the Upper Darby Police Department has been arrested and charged with DUI and other related offenses.
The two cars crashed in the eastbound tunnel near 28th Street and East Passyunk Avenue.
According to Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato, a man was sentenced to six years in New Jersey State Prison for attempting to hire someone to have his wife and daughter killed.
Forty-seven-year-old Thomas J. Lepera was operating a 2005 Hyundai Sante Fe southbound on Railroad Avenue, and as he was passing the marked patrol car, the right side of the Sante Fe swiped the officer's car.
Police say DUI charges are pending for the driver of a Pontiac who crashed into another car driven by an off-duty police officer.
Two Connecticut teenagers were arrested last month and charged with reckless endangerment after allowing a highly-intoxicated friend to drive. She died.
A suspected drunk driver was arrested after he crashed into several parked cars and a home in Philadelphia early Tuesday morning.
A Pennsylvania couple has been charged with drunken driving after police say the man's wife arrived drunk at the police barracks to pick up her husband following his arrest earlier New Year's Day.
The BAC Alcohol Calculator will let you input the drinks you've had and estimate your blood alcohol content - as well as when that will reach zero.
Police say a man dressed in a Santa suit was struck and killed by a DUI driver along I-95 in Philadelphia late Saturday night.
A 32-year-old mother faces drunk driving and child endangerment charges after police say she plowed into the rear of a car Thursday night in Villanova, causing a chain-reaction crash. Officers found her 5-year-old son in the backseat.
A driver is facing DUI charges after he struck and injured a man with his car and then fled the scene early Wednesday morning in Southwest Philadelphia.
The families of the dead boy, Octavius Stone, and his recovering friend, Emil Velez, were gathered to remember Stone on Monday when they learned 67-year-old Virgil Coonfare, of New Castle, had died earlier that day.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving refers to this night as "Blackout Wednesday" noting this day marks the beginning of a spike in binge drinking and drunk driving during the holidays.
Lower Merion Police say a 32-year-old Wynnewood mother is facing DUI and other charges following a crash Friday night in Bryn Mawr.
Unlike drunk driving, in which you are considered impaired if your blood alcohol level is .08, to prove underage drinking, your blood alcohol level only has to be .02.
Police in Bensalem say a 50-year-old woman was arrested for attacking a 14-year-old while under the influence of alcohol.
