A bus driver suspected of driving under the influence was arrested after he hit a pedestrian in downtown Seattle earlier this month. The 32-year-old man who was hit by the bus became disoriented, but left the scene with non-life threatening injuries. Medics later found him on Fourth Avenue and P...

Justin Blackmon was arrested on Sunday in Stillwater, Oklahoma around 3 a.m. after police officers suspected him of driving under the influence. The former football player for the Oklahoma State University Cowboys was pulled over, and eventually arrested for driving under the influence after he f...

Cowan Kirk Gaston partners BIll Kirk and Eric Gaston both lectured at the annual DUI Defense seminar sponsored by the Washington Foundation for Criminal Justice held in Seattle on January 12th.  The seminar is one of the most well attended seminars of its kind in the country, with approximately 3...

This is the first of what I expect to be several blogs.  I want to use this forum to discuss the implementation of the Ignition Interlock License.  (See RCW 46.20.385). As mentioned at the WFCJ Seminar on December 12th, while I'd like to have the answers for all the questions that inevitably will...

A young mother in Arizona is facing aggravated DUI charges after she allegedly forgot that her newborn child was still on top of her car when she drove home. The child fell off of the car, but did not sustain any injuries. Phoenix police were notified of a car seat containing a child in the midd...

According to a U.S. Coast Guard report, individuals boating under the influence have led to the largest number of boating fatalities in the United States since 1998. The 2011 report that was issued by the Coast Guard shows that people who are operating boats under the influence of alcohol or dru...

Tougher legislation for drunk driving fatalities is being proposed by Washington state Rep. Christopher Hurst, D-Enumclaw, King County prosecutor Dan Satterberg, and Pierce County prosecutor Mark Lindquist. The new legislation would increase the sentence for vehicular homicide from the current 3...

A 21 year-old man was arrested on suspicion of DUI after being involved in a collision with an off-duty Seattle police officer at around 3:00 a.m. on Sunday morning. The officer was on his way to work, when the suspect's vehicle collided with his in the intersection of East Pine Street and Boylst...

According to officials, there were no DUI related traffic fatalities over the New Year's weekend. Last year on New Year's weekend there were five alcohol-related deaths in the state. Over the New Year's weekend police officials made 257 DUI arrests. This is a decrease from last year's 291 DUI ar...

A man pleaded guilty for drunk driving charges after he hit and killed a 21-year-old woman from Seattle. The accident happened on July 21. The man lost control of his car and hit two camp counselors who were walking along the road. The woman from Seattle was killed and the other California woman...