Category: DUI Accidents
Naples Bar Must Pay $60 Million in Personal Injury Case
May 6, 2015 | Category: DUI AccidentsThe Naples Daily News reported on Wednesday, April 22, 2015 that a Collier County jury awarded a plaintiff $60 million in a DUI suit against a North Naples pub. The pub was found negligent when its bartenders served an under-aged person too much alcohol resulting in permanent disabilities when the vehicle in which she was riding crashed into a tree in 2003.
Alcohol Awareness Month - April 2015
April 1, 2015 | Category: DUI AccidentsAn important part of the NCADD's Alcohol Awareness Month is Alcohol-Free Weekend (April 3 to April 5, 2015). This is designated to raise the public's awareness about the use of alcohol and how it may be affecting individuals, family, and the community. During this period of seventy-two hours, the NCADD would like all Americans whether they are young or old to not only participate in this alcohol-free weekend, but to take this time to contact alcoholism agencies to learn more about alcoholism and...
DUI Prevention: MADD Gives Florida 4 Out of 5 Stars
March 26, 2015 | Category: DUI AccidentsIn the recent Mothers Against Drunk Driving 2015 Report to the Nation that looked at each state’s drunk driving prevention efforts, Florida was given four out of five stars. MADD notes that while the state has been given a high rating, it still wants lawmakers to do even more to put an end to drunk driving. Specifically, the organization wants ignition interlocks to be required for all convicted drunk drivers.
Drugs Surpassing Alcohol In Causing Vehicle Accidents
March 6, 2015 | Category: DUI AccidentsAccording to a 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), approximately 9.9 million people aged 12 or older reported driving under the influence of illicit drugs during the year prior to being surveyed.
Keep Your New Year's Eve Safe: Don't Drink and Drive
December 30, 2014 | Category: DUI AccidentsThe New Year is quickly approaching and many people are making party plans, considering New Year's resolutions and contemplating ways to lose all the weight they gained throughout the last year.
What Can Be Done to Decrease or Eliminate Impaired Driving Over the Holidays?
December 24, 2014 | Category: DUI AccidentsThe United States National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) has been studying traffic-related deaths involving drunk drivers during the Christmas and New Year's time period for the last ten years. In this time period, 40 percent of the traffic-related deaths are the result of drunk driving.
Alcohol - How Much Is Too Much?
December 3, 2014 | Category: DUI AccidentsBefore going to any party and partaking of alcoholic beverages, it is important to think about the question, How much is too much? Do you know how much drinking is too much for you?
The rock's mother goes home after being hit by drunk driver
September 25, 2014 | Category: DUI AccidentsMotor vehicle accidents can occur for a variety of reasons ranging from a driver simply not paying attention to the roadway to a driver being intoxicated while operating the motor vehicle. Ft. Myers personal injury lawyer Randall Spivey has seen through the many clients that he's represented the horrible effects that a drunk driving accident can have on both the victims and their loved ones.
The Story Behind Drunk Driving
September 8, 2014 | Category: DUI AccidentsMADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) reported that in the United States, in 2012, 10,233 died in drunk driving crashes, one every 51 minutes, and 290,000 were injured. These are the statistics; here is one of the many stories of how driving drunk affected a family in the Miami area: At the Miami chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving Bree Ann Camacho shared her story of losing her younger, 13-year-old sister, Kaely in April 2012 when a drunk driver who was speeding slammed into her family's...
Drink? Do Not Drive
September 3, 2014 | Category: DUI AccidentsBetween Monday, August 4 and Sunday, August 10, 2014, just six days, seventeen people in Lee County were arrested for DUI (driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs) according to the Lee County Sheriff's Office .