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Friday, December 21, 2012

Dearborn 2012 DUI Stats (And How Many Drinks Will Get You Busted)

If you insist on driving after a few drinks, here's what you should know about how alcohol affects your system and your criminal record.

Do you know how many drinks you can have before you're in danger of getting a drunken driving violation? Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad confirmed that the department will have officers out on patrol looking for signs of drunk driving throughout the holiday season. And if you're driving after a few too many and get caught? “We will continue to work with our community partners on traffic safety issues and prosecute drunk drivers to the fullest extent of the law," Haddad said. When police pull drivers over for suspected drunken driving, officers ask them to perform field sobriety tests and to take a breath test to measure Blood Alcohol Content. A BAC test measures the percentage of alcohol present in a person's bloodstream. Michigan's …

Lee Jacobsen

4:35 pm on Friday, December 21, 2012

Obama wants us to be more 'European'. Don't think so, for the most part.. However.... Finally, something we can agree on with repect to drunk driving. Adapt the tougher European standards. That means a .02 or .03 level compared to Michigan's .08 level. The Europeans drink like fish. They get plastered. However, almost none get DUIs. How do they do it? Super lawyers? Nope! They have great taxi …   more ›

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