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Posted on Feb 1, 2012 By Orange County DUI Lawyer
This week, news sources reported that a defendant was sentenced to three to six years for hitting and killing a bicyclist late December 2010. According to the police report, P.R.J., 54, was driving ...
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Posted on Jan 25, 2012 By Orange County DUI Lawyer
After pleading guilty to the DUI deaths that he caused in 2007, the driver known as D.B. is now saying that he was not responsible. In addition to wanting to be cleared of the charges, D.B. now wants ...
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Posted on Jan 11, 2012 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
A young man in Palm Beach, Florida faces several years behind bars for causing a fatal DUI accident . He should never have been behind the wheel of a car at all since he has never had a license. ...
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Posted on Jan 4, 2012 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
The District of Columbia has a higher-than-average DUI fatality rate. In December of 2009 alone, 753 people were killed by drunk drivers or by being impaired themselves. The holiday season is a ...
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Posted on Dec 27, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
While a life sentence is generally not given for DUI crashes, a judge in California made an exception this week. The death of a young mother of three prompted a California judge to serve the offender ...
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Posted on Dec 20, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
One woman in Mesa, Arizona is lucky to not have sustained more serious injuries after driving her vehicle into a canal last weekend. According to the police report, someone called 911 when they saw a ...
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Posted on Dec 14, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
A young man was already facing serious charges for causing a car accident when he was arrested again for the same incident. After the 23-year-old man struck the vehicle of the victim head-on, the ...
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Posted on Nov 30, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
One man might have gotten away with crashing into a parked car if it had been unoccupied. The 36-year-old suspect was driving last week in California when he steered off the highway and directly into ...
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Posted on Nov 28, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
Two teenagers lost their lives in California last week and police now believe that alcohol is to blame. According to the California Highway Patrol, a 28-year-old male was driving the vehicle carrying ...
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Posted on Nov 16, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
While you should never drink and drive, you should definitely not engage in a high-speed police chase while under the influence as it can lead to serious penalties. According to several deputies from ...
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Posted on Nov 14, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
One man knew that he should not get behind the wheel but he did anyway. What happened proved to be a fatal mistake that would affect his life forever. Last Easter Sunday, a 44-year-old man was so ...
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Posted on Nov 7, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
Officers thought they were arriving at a regular crash site, but they quickly determined that this car accident had been caused by an impaired driver. According to a California Highway Patrol report, ...
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Posted on Oct 24, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
One place you should definitely not park your car is on train tracks. Of course, if one driver had not been intoxicated when she parked her vehicle, she might have realized that and avoided causing a ...
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Posted on Oct 12, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
An accident in Redding, California still has police questioning drivers and eyewitnesses to determine a cause. According to witness testimony, a 28-year-old man driving a SUV northbound started to ...
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Posted on Oct 5, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
One woman injured not only her three children, but three of her friends' children in a drunk driving accident last week in Los Angeles. Police reports show that the 31-year-old woman was driving ...
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Posted on Oct 3, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
One young boy was saved from serious injury when a witness stopped his mother from throwing him over a fence. According to the police, several people phoned in to report a single-car accident on the ...
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Posted on Sep 28, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
Not only did a young man cause a multiple-vehicle accident last week in California, but he injured three people as well, including a police officer. According to the California Highway Patrol, the ...
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Posted on Sep 27, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
A man with two DUI convictions and another one pending caused a DUI accident that took the life of his friend this week. According to police officers in Los Angeles, California, the 24-year-old was ...
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Posted on Sep 26, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
What would normally have been an open-and-shut case in the courtroom turned out to be trickier than anticipated. According to a police department, a young man drove the wrong way on a highway in April ...
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Posted on Sep 21, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
After driving off a mountain and falling nearly 500 feet, three people are lucky to be alive. According to police form the California Highway Patrol, a man driving a car lost control of his vehicle ...
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Posted on Sep 14, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
After spending his life protecting people, a fire department captain will now be spending some time behind bars for a serious DUI accident . On April 1 st of this year, the captain was arrested for ...
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Posted on Sep 13, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
While more DUIs were reported in the Bay Area during this year's Labor Day weekend, less DUI fatalities kept officers busy. According to the law enforcement agents in the state, there were 6more ...
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Posted on Sep 7, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
A young man is in serious trouble after causing a DUI accident that involved a police officer. The 23-year-old man was driving east on a local avenue when he lost control of his vehicle. He ran into ...
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Posted on Sep 5, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
While there are countless reasons not to drink and drive, taking the life of an innocent bystander is at the top of the list. A man from Encino, California was arrested last week after causing the ...
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Posted on Aug 31, 2011 By Law Offices of Virginia L. Landry
The irony of a drunk driving arrest was not missed by officers when a former substance abuse counselor crashed into a police cruiser. Officers in California were conducting a routine traffic stop when ...
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