Friday, 31 August 2012

Driver’s License Checkpoint And Crash Involving Driver



A five-hour DUI/Driver’s License checkpoint is scheduled Friday night and early Saturday in downtown Redlands.
The checkpoint is planned 10 p.m. Aug. 31 through 3 a.m. Sept. 1 in northbound lanes of Orange Street between Stuart and Pearl avenues, a city spokesman said.
Targeted DUI saturation patrols are also scheduled during the evenings of Saturday Sept. 1 and Sunday Sept. 2, Redlands spokesman Carl Baker said.
Two recent DUI checkpoints in Redlands resulted in multiple arrests, Baker said.
On Aug. 24, 140 vehicles passed through a checkpoint in the northbound lanes of San Bernardino Avenue at Orange Street.
“Five drivers were arrested for DUI, one person was arrested for domestic violence, one driver was cited for possessing an open container of alcohol and three drivers were cited for driving without a valid license,” Baker said.
On Aug. 25, 50 vehicles passed through a checkpoint in southbound lanes of Wabash Avenue at Brockton Avenue, Baker said

LOS ANGELES – Jack Wyard is 92 and sees no reason to surrender his car keys, not to mention the freedom they give him to get up and go anywhere he wants, whenever he wants.
After all, he said, two years ago he got a perfect score on his written test to renew his license.
“I don’t know what to suggest for anyone else, but I’m still comfortable on the highway and I enjoy driving,” the retired sales manager from Los Angeles said Thursday.
A day earlier, a 100-year-old man attempting to back his Cadillac out of a grocery store parking lot struck and injured 14 people, 11 of them children, police said. Three children remained hospitalized but were expected to recover.
The accident in front of a South Los Angeles elementary school where children had lined up to buy after-school treats brought to the forefront again a debate over how old is too old to keep driving

The San Jose Police Department, Traffic Enforcement Unit, will conduct a Labor Day Weekend Sobriety/Driver License Checkpoint on Saturday, September 1, 2012, at an undisclosed location within the city of San Jose, between 9:00 p.m. and 3:00 a.m. DUI checkpoints are a proven enforcement tool, effective in reducing the number of persons killed and injured in alcohol-involved crashes. Research shows that crashes involving alcohol drop by an average of 20 percent when well-publicized checkpoints are conducted often enough.
Officers will be contacting drivers passing through the checkpoint and checking for signs of alcohol and/or drug impairment. Officers will also check for proper licensing and will strive to delay motorists only momentarily. Drivers caught driving impaired can expect jail, license suspension, and insurance increases, as well as fines, fees, DUI classes, and other expenses that can exceed $10,000.
In 2010, over 10,000 people were killed nationally in motor vehicle traffic crashes that involved at least one driver or motorcycle rider with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08% or higher. In Californian, this deadly crime led to 791 deaths because someone failed to designate a sober driver. “Over the course of the past three years, DUI collisions have claimed 32 lives and resulted in 1,641 crashes harming 532 of our friends and neighbors,” said Sgt

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