Hundreds of tickets have been written out to distracted drivers for using their electronic devices while driving. At the beginning of the year Washington State enacted a law making it a crime to use your electronic devices while driving (E-DUI). Over 870 distracted drivers were issued E-DUI tickets between January 1st and February 28th. Spokane newspaper, The Spokesman-Review reported that [...]

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On Thursday, February 22nd Senator Jim Dabakis presented Senate Bill 210 to Utah Lawmakers while legally drunk 0.05% BAC. The senator had two mimosas before having an aide drive him up to Capitol Hill. He had the drinks and did the presentation to prove how ridiculous the new 0.05% DUI Law really is.   According to Fox 13: "My entire presentation has been at .05 and you may say [...]

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There is a new bill that has been introduced to congress that is trying to delay the new 0.05% BAC Utah DUI Law that goes into effect on New Year's Eve this year. According to Fox 13:   Rep. Karen Kwan, D-Taylorsville, introduced House Bill 345 last week, which delays Utah's new .05 DUI law until at least 2022. It also includes some changes making it so immigrant drivers are not [...]

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Between June 10th and August 5th of last year many boxes of narcotics and various medications disappeared from the Utah County, Pleasant Grove Fire Department ambulances. Boxes of entanyl, diazapam, ketamine, morphine, and midazolam kept going missing. Before the final robbery the Pleasant Grove Fire Station put up surveillance cameras. They video taped former Utah County firefighter James [...]

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A U.S. commissioned report by the National Academies of Sciences has suggested that the entire country needs to lower the DUI BAC limit for driving from 0.08% to 0.05% just like how Utah has done. The new Utah law won't go in effect until Dec. 30th of this year, but the National Academies of Sciences has suggested the other 49 states follow suit. This would mean that most women could only [...]

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Scott D. Freitag the director of the Salt Lake City 911 Bureau and who alos serves on the Layton City Council was arrested for DUI on January 3rd. According to the Centerville, UT Police Department a sergeant stopped Freitag while he was trying to get on I-15 Southbound in Kaysville around 1:25 pm. The police officer noticed that Freitag was driving a Salt Lake City Corporation Car and was [...]

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A drunk driver in a Maserati sports car caused a head-on crash on I-15 in Weber County early Saturday morning. The DUI collision occurred around 1 a.m. in the northbound side of I-15 near Riverdale Road, in Ogden.   The vehicle was driving over 80 mph and dodged several cars before causing a head-on collision with a woman driving a SUV. Upon collision the SUV flipped over the barrier [...]

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The Utah Highway Patrol and various Utah law enforcement agencies are increasing enforcement of DUI patrols this holiday season. The Utah Highway Patrol has added 300 shifts that consist of troopers specifically looking for DUI drivers. “If you choose to drive while drinking, the officers standing behind me will make sure you don't have the opportunity to cause tragedy to someone else,” [...]

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Early this year I posted about an ad that the American Beverage Institute ran that compared Utah's new 0.05% DUI Law to driving while elderly. The ad featured many of the Utah government officials who voted to pass Utah's new 0.05% BAC limit. The American Beverage Institute isn't stopping there and has once again returned to Utah's Capitol Hill to make a case for the new law's repeal. [...]

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11 days before the general deer hunt began a man was caught poaching a 31-inch trophy buck deer. Wildlife officers were alerted to a poached deer by a Carbon County resident on October 10th. According to Division of Wildlife Resources officer Justin Brimhall a resident of Carbon County was watching the deer from the distance when he heard a gunshot. After the shot the deer began running [...]

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