University of Georgia student Hannah Pless starts her winning essay off with a startling statistic: “Every fifty-two minutes another life is lost due to drinking and driving.” Even amid the pandemic of 2019, more than 10,000 people lost their lives from this devastating and easily preventable issue. Pless, along with ... Read More »
Overview Every day, as many as 28 people die in drunk driving-related crashes in the United States — that’s one person every 52 minutes. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 10,142 people lost their lives in 2019 due to alcohol-induced accidents. Drunk Driving Information The percentage of ... Read More »
One person was injured after a drunk driver slammed into another car on Ortiz Avenue near Billy’s Creek Drive in Fort Myers, officials said. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Nichole Politis, 41, was driving a 2019 Lexus when she crossed the center line and hit a van heading in ... Read More »
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office said a Texas man faces a manslaughter charge, three counts of DUI serious bodily injury, four counts of DUI property damage, and a single charge of DUI personal injury to another after a crash in Lehigh Acres. According to authorities, multiple people were taken to ... Read More »
Authorities said they arrested a police officer, Ashley Susan Hunter, on Tuesday on DUI charges in southwest Miami-Dade although she refused to provide a blood sample or conduct a field sobriety test. According to her arrest report, the 30-year-old police officer was arrested Tuesday in the area of Southwest 224th ... Read More »
A Cape Coral man suffered a great loss after a suspected drunken driver ran off the road and onto his property in the middle of the night, destroying his parked cars. According to Police, the incident happened late Monday on SE 47th Terrace near Palm Tree Boulevard after the driver ... Read More »
As we have mentioned in previous posts, the issue of liability in a Florida car accident often extends beyond the drivers involved to include third parties — March 13, 2013 ... Read More »
Like love, justice is blind. At least it's supposed to be. The recent arrest of a Florida politician stemming from an allegedly drunken car accident is ano — March 23, 2013 ... Read More »
In Cook v. MillerCoors, the District Court for the Middle District of Florida takes on a case in which a woman injured in a drunk driving accident sues the — June 13, 2012 ... Read More »
A valet parking service does not owe a duty to third parties to refrain from returning car keys to an obviously drunk customer, a Florida appellate court r — November 10, 2012 ... Read More »
