Category: DUI

The drunk driver responsible for ending the lives of two new grandparents and causing life-threatening injuries to a new mother and her infant has pleaded guilty in Seattle. The tragic collision made national headlines in March when a 51-year-old electrician with five prior drunk-driving arrests plowed into the family of…

Days after Washington State Governor Jay Inslee signed a law that provides stiffer penalties for driving under the influence, a man was killed in a suspected DUI collision in Seattle. Although the new DUI laws have yet to take effect, the driver involved in the collision could face significant time…

One young man landed in the hospital and another in jail recently after a drag race resulted in a serious crash on Highway 509 in South Seattle. According to KOMO, the Washington State Patrol said a 2003 Nissan 350 and a 2000 Daewoo Nubira were traveling at a high rate…

After a string of particularly heinous drunk driving accidents in the State of Washington, state legislators started working on ways to make the state’s DUI laws tougher. Lawmakers recently approved new penalties for repeat drunk drivers. The number of fatalities caused by impaired driving in the State of Washington has…

Law enforcement officers suspect that alcohol was involved in two recent rollover accidents in Washington State that resulted in serious injuries. Both were single-vehicle crashes. In one, a vehicle ran a stop sign near Zillah, collided with a signpost, went through a field of stacked lumber and flipped over. The…

Federal accident investigators are calling on states to significantly lower the drunk driving threshold, as other nations have done, to reduce deaths from alcohol-impaired driving. The National Transportation Safety Board urged states to reduce the current 0.08 percent blood-alcohol standard to 0.05 percent, the Associated Press reports. According the NTSB,…

Law enforcement officers and the public have been crying out for new measures to keep drunk drivers off the state’s roadways. Washington State lawmakers are listening. Legislators recently reached a tentative agreement that will include harsher penalties and additional oversight for people who are charged or convicted of an alcohol-related…

A recent wrong-way collision on Interstate 5 in Tukwila, Washington, sent three people to the hospital, according to the Tukwila Reporter. According to the Washington State Police, a pickup driver tried to exit the interstate at an on-ramp, colliding head on with a car entering the interstate. Two people in…

Washington Governor Jay Inslee and a bipartisan group of lawmakers recently announced a plan to change state laws on drunk driving. The announcement comes in the wake of two recent tragedies involving drivers suspected of being under the influence. A Seattle woman was fatally injured on Highway 520 in a…

A suspected drunk driver slammed into a family of four who were out for a walk March 25 in Seattle, killing a retired couple who had just moved to the area to be closer to their new grandson. The child’s mother and their 12-day-old grandson were hospitalized with critical injuries….