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…

Washington Governor Jay Inslee recently signed measures to make the state’s driving-under-the-influence laws tougher. Family members of victims from recent fatal DUI crashes joined the governor at the signing. The new laws are the culmination of bipartisan efforts over recent months to address concerns stemming from a series of deadly…

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…

Law enforcement authorities suspect that alcohol and speed contributed to a recent crash that killed a 26-year-old Seattle man and injured two others on State Route 507 north of Roy, the Olympian reports. The man was a passenger in a car that veered off the road and struck a tree….

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…