When a car accident happens and someone is injured or even killed, the other driver can sometimes overexplain their involvement. When a police officer suspects that you have been drinking, you could face charges of vehicular assault or even vehicular homicide.It's...
Month: February 2015
Do personal breathalyzers give accurate BAC readings?
The Denver office of Mothers Against Drunk Drivers is on South Colorado Boulevard. But if you want information from the group, you can also visit their website, where they recently featured an article on BAC.The acronym stands for Blood Alcohol Content. It's a...
The complications of a Colorado DUI
The first wave of effects a Colorado DUI conviction has on a person are pretty apparent to most people. Jail time, driver's license suspension, fines, required public service, mandated installation of an ignition interlock device on your car, and so on.What is less...
Cold, hard facts?
As many people have noted, sometimes it's not the original infraction that results in an arrest, but an attempt at covering it up. That might be the case with two men far from us in Denver.The pair of New Jersey 20-year-olds were both recently charged with DUI. Police...
Study: marijuana much less likely to cause crashes than alcohol
Many Colorado advocates of marijuana legalization have for years argued that consuming the leafy green substance is less dangerous than consuming alcohol. They are likely to embrace some aspects of a new study that shows marijuana consumption has a relatively minor...
What is ‘SR-22 insurance’?
Our world is increasingly filled with acronymns, abbreviations, jargon and buzzwords. Somewhere in those blizzards of letters and numbers, you can find SR-22. Some people think it's a form of insurance required of drivers who commit a DUI, while others might recognize...
Valentine’s Day: love it or hate it, it’s here
It's one of those love-it-or-hate-it events on the calendar: Valentine's Day. For those people in happy, committed relationships, it's a wonderful day on which to relive memories of the first date or first kiss, and perhaps make new memories. For those who are newly...
Enhanced DUI enforcement days ahead
It is pretty close to impossible to accurately predict the future, but we can say with a fair amount of certainty that in coming days the Denver Police Department and other Colorado law enforcement agencies will conduct drunk driving crackdowns. Looking at the...
Which affects drivers more: alcohol or marijuana?
We wrote recently about the Colorado State Patrol's arrest figures released to the media. Officials said that about 1 out of 8 DUI arrests made by troopers last year involved marijuana use. About half of the drivers were believed to have used only marijuana, while...
Super Bowl weekend not super for 36 Denver drivers
This past weekend's Super Bowl will undoubtedly go down as one of the best in the history of the NFL. Of course, the Patriots-Seahawks game would have been infinitely better if the Denver Broncos and Peyton Manning had been the victors instead of Tom Brady and the...