The long three day Labor Day Weekend ranks third in DUI crashes in Utah for Holiday weekends. So to counteract this Utah law enforcement are ramping up their DUI patrols and DUI officers in Tooele, Salt Lake City, Davis County, and throughout the entire state of Utah. In the past three years there have been an average of 28 DUI related crashes in Utah during the Labor Day Weekend.   [...]

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Utah Representative Karen Kwan is working on a bill aimed at changing or repealing the new 0.05% DUI Law that will go into affect at the beginning of next year. Rep. Kwan is also a part of the legislatures transportation committee and is part of a group of law makers that are reviewing the new 0.05% DUI Law.   She and her group are looking at the new law and assessing what changes [...]

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DUI arrests are by far the most common arrest in the United States. Surprisingly a lot of these DUI arrests are from repeat offenders. The way the court and criminal justice system works is that they focus on penalizing most DUI offenders driving privileges. These penalties range from taking away driving privileges all together for a certain amount of time. Having the driver install an [...]

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A 60 year old woman has been charged with a DUI in Tooele, Utah while operating an all terrain vehicle (ATV). She was riding on her four-wheeler when authorities noticed the ATV swerving in the lane and going about 54 miles per hour. The ATV had slowed down to 25 miles per hour by the time it had reached the police officer. The reason that the Tooele, Utah officer pulled her over for DUI was [...]

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There is a new ad running right now put out by the American Beverage Institute that compares Utah's new 0.05% DUI law to driving while old. The ad is based off some research done by the National Highway Traffic Administration that claims that drivers that are older than 65 are more impaired and less competent to operate a motor vehicle than someone with the (BAC) Blood alcohol content of 0.05%.[...]

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On the evening this last Tuesday, July 4th, 2017 a car traveling on 465 W. and 200 S. in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah veered onto the sidewalk and hit a group of people. One person was killed and five other people were injured. The car immediately drove off and crashed into a tree. The driver got out of the car and fled the scene. The passenger of the car remained for a few minutes and then [...]

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There might be a chance for first time DUI offenders in Utah to have a "second chance". There is a law that was just recently passed in Texas where DWI and DUI offenders can have their conviction sealed from the view of the public. This law mostly applies to first time DWI and DUI offenders who have a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.140% or less. It also only applies drivers that were not [...]

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There is a new article out right now that asks whether or not a Field Sobriety Test in Utah can be considered a "warantless search". There is one case in particular pending in a Georgia court that is asking the court to reconsider its decision on a DUI conviction based on the fact that some of the convicting evidence was based on a Field Sobriety Test that could be considered a warantless [...]

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There are several DUI cases that are being reviewed in Colorado that involve false readings from an Intoxilyzer-9000, the breathalyzer machine that Colorado law enforcement use to perform breath tests on would be DUI convictions. Intoxilyzer-9000s are are not accurate from time to time, but their reports are often used as the main piece of evidence in the prosecutors case. There have been [...]

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Bars in Salt Lake City and throughout the entire state of Utah are fighting back against HB 155, the new change that affects DUI law and was signed by Utah's Governor that lower's the legal Blood Alcohol Content (BAC) level from 0.08% down to 0.05%. The Utah Hospitality Association based in Salt Lake City has launched a GoFundMe campaign that has raised over $5,000 and reached 18,000 shares.The[...]

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