A 20-year-old man from Seattle was recently arrested for a DUI after he survived a fiery single-vehicle crash near Phantom Lake. The man was driving a 2000 BMW on Phantom Way on Monday night when he lost control of the vehicle and it rolled over and hit a tree. Witnesses to the accident were abl...

Heath Shuler, a U.S. representative, recently introduced new legislation that would help to prevent drunk driving by installing technology into vehicles to prevent anyone who has been drinking from being able to drive. The legislation is known as the Research of Alcohol Detection Systems for Sto...

Brandon Lee Frye, a former NFL tackle that played for the Seattle Seahawks in 2009, was arrested over the weekend for driving drunk near his home in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The 28-year-old was pulled over at around 1:45 a.m. on Saturday when officers suspected that he may have been driving...

Police officers in Wenatchee, Washington will be participating in “Operation Dry Water” from June 24-26. This operation will crack down on people who boat while under the influence of alcohol. During the operation, officers will be patrolling the Washington-area lakes and oceans more often, as w...

A 44-year-old man from Seattle recently faced sentencing from a judge for injuring an officer while he was driving drunk. The accident occurred on December 13, 2009 in Sea-Tac. The 44-year-old man was driving a 1989 Toyota Corolla when he slammed into a police car that was parked on the side of ...

Recently, defense attorneys in Florida have been using a legal loophole to have Intoxilyzer test results thrown out of court and DUI cases dropped. This defense argument was even upheld in Florida's Supreme Court. Laws state that a breath test's results can only be used as evidence in a court of...

A 24-year-old woman was recently arrested in Auburn and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and hitting a police officer's patrol car. The accident occurred on Highway 167 at 3 a.m. A police officer had pulled over a 36-year-old woman for a suspected DUI. After the officer put th...

The Washington State Patrol recently announced that it has made 1,200 arrests on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol for the first quarter of the new year. The Washington State Patrol has made over 36,000 traffic arrests in total. Most drivers were arrested for speeding or violatin...

The Seattle Municipal Court recently announced that they will no longer be sentencing  DUI offenders to jail time. Instead, DUI offenders will be sentenced to wear an alcohol monitoring bracelet on their ankles to ensure that they are not drinking. The switch came about when court officials deci...

A 51-year-old man from Kirkland was sentenced to 8 1/2 years in prison for causing an accident last summer that killed two teenagers. The man had been driving his SUV down I-5 when he crashed into a vehicle that was disabled and parked on the side of the highway. Two 18-year-old high school stud...

A police sergeant in Seattle that was arrested last month for driving under the influence has claimed that his most recent drink before the arrest was nearly 5 hours before. The 41-year-old officer was asleep when a friend dropped him off around 5 a.m., he claims that he was asleep for some time...

All over the country, states are discussing stricter boating laws, and a new law has been passed in Iowa that lowers the legal blood-alcohol content for boaters to .08. This is the same legal limit for drunk drivers. A stipulation of the law is that the boat has to be moving in order for a perso...

Recent inaccuracy issues have been brought up concerning the Datamaster breath test, which could overturn several DUI convictions across the country. One chemist who worked in labs that conducted the Datamaster test found that many lab technicians manipulated the tests to convict drivers of bein...

A cell phone app, known as the “Phantom Alert” app, was recently removed from cell phones by four senators in the U.S. who deemed it dangerous and illegal. The app works by alerting users of DUI checkpoints as they drive, thus enabling them to avoid these checkpoints. Although the senators found...

After several allegations were made against the Seattle Police Department's DUI unit for misconduct, investigators from the City Attorney's Office have stepped in to determine if these accusations are true.  Officials from the attorney's office are reviewing documents from several DUI cases to ch...

Police in Snohomish County have announced that they will have extra law enforcement officials out on the streets today and Friday for St. Patrick's Day celebrations. This tougher enforcement effort is part of a 10-day patrol that began on March 11. This same campaign was done the same time last ...

According to Seattle Police, an alleged drunk driver struck six parked cars on Interlake Avenue. The cars were parked on the 8500 block of the road and many suffered extensive damage. The driver of the vehicle that struck all of the other vehicles was found a short distance away. He was charged...

A man has received a 29-month sentence after striking five pedestrians in an alleged drunk driving accident. The 43-year-old man plead guilty this month to three counts of vehicular assault and one count of reckless driving in an accident that sent one person to the hospital. The incident occur...

A man was arrested after he was allegedly waving a pellet gun at people as he was drunk driving in Seattle. He was held on $10,000 bond and will face charges later in the week. The same suspect also allegedly crashed his car into a parking enforcement officer's scooter near 4th and Union Streets...

Seattle Mariners' second baseman, Adam Kennedy, was arrested in California for suspicion of driving under the influence. The 35-year-old player was arrested after being stopped by California Highway Patrol on the 73 tollway. The baseball player was suspected of drunken driving and he was arreste...

A suspected drunk driver lost control of his vehicle and side swiped six vehicles along Rainier in Seattle. The Seattle Police Department then responded to the scene at 3 a.m.in order to look for the driver, who was found inside the vehicle. The police reported that seven cars were damaged in t...

Police in King County are boosting up defense during Super Bowl weekend. In the hours after the Super Bowl, Washington State troopers will be out around the state to catch those that are driving while drunk. The agency is also asking fellow drivers to call to report if there is anyone driving su...

Mariners broadcaster, Mike Blowers was arrested for charges of driving under the influence. He has now been arraigned on the charges. Blowers, a former Marines player and now a broadcaster for the team, was arrested in Pierce County on Dec. 2, according to Washington State Patrol. The man's nex...

The “Drive Hammered, Get Nailed” campaign that took place over the holiday season across the state of Washington has released its results. King County had over 800 arrests during the time. The additional law enforcement was on the roads during the time period of Nov. 25 to Jan. 2 and during this...

Throughout the holiday season, Nov. 25-Jan. 2, the state of Washington increased their patrol to look for drunken drivers leaving from holiday events. Statewide more than 3,577 suspected drunk drivers were arrested, 876 of them were in King County. The initiative was called the “Drive Hammered, ...