Topics: Driving & Motor Vehicles - 191 results

The U.S. Supreme Court is deciding whether police can draw blood from a DUI suspect without the driver’s permission and without a search warrant. In this WBAP Radio 820 AM/ 96.7 FM, Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas interview, Lawyers.com Editor-in-Chief Larry Bodine discusses Missouri v. McNeely.   Outside Cape Girardeau, Mo., police stopped trucker Tyler McNeely for speeding. He was physically unstable, had bloodshot eyes, smelled of alcohol, failed the field sobriety tests and refused the breathalyzer test. This would have been …

  The government and private companies are using automatic license plate readers (LPRs) to gather the license numbers of cars on the streets of cities and towns across the country. These gadgets snap pictures of the plates, time stamp the photos and record the GPS coordinates. You don’t even have to be a criminal suspect. You just have to drive a car. Lawyers.com journalist Ed Alpern investigates how the LPR technology is affecting your privacy rights. Some people say the …

A nightclub has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a medical student killed by a drunk driver who spent hours drinking at the club. Daniel Musser was a sailor stationed at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton, Conn., when he went to the Ultra 88 nightclub at the Mohegan Sun casino in nearby Uncasville. He drank for several hours before getting in his car, driving the wrong way on the interstate  and slamming head-on into a …

    Getting a DUI citation will ruin your life. You’ll lose your license, which means you may lose your job, you’ll pay huge fines and you may go to jail.  All of this could have been avoided if you had just known your own limit. The reason that law enforcement and the courts are so harsh on drunk drivers is that in 2010 alone they killed 10,288 people, according to Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Every year, 1.4 million arrests …

The family of a Utah boy who was killed in an alleged texting-while-driving accident is suing the driver who hit him for wrongful death. The accused driver, Jeffery Lloyd Bascom, is also facing criminal charges under the state’s distracted driving law. Thomas LaVelle Clark, 15, was walking along a semi-rural road on the outskirts of the town of Vernal when he was hit from behind by a pickup driven by Bascom, 28. Clark was thrown 40 feet over a ditch …