DUI

Drinking and driving do not mix. Alcohol affects the brain in more ways than one. It clouds your decision-making capabilities, and hampers your judgment. While driving requires full concentration and quick reflexes, alcohol and drugs slow you down and affect your ability to drive safely. There are many initiatives and programs in place to prevent drunken drivers from getting behind the wheel. Unless these efforts are supplemented by community-based programs that educate people and create awareness about the dangers of drinking and driving, it will be hard to get the message across. It is important that we do our best to avoid drinking and driving, and educate our driving population. DUI statistics are alarming – one in every three traffic crashes involve a drinking driver. Underage a...

Whenever a person is caught for a DUI case, it is tempting enough to avoid the DUI (driving under influence) tests and have a clean slate. Even if you might have taken only a little amount of alcohol or no alcohol at all, you might catch the impression that the officer is putting you in an ill-space. Eventually you would strongly refuse to admit to the tests. But, one should be careful about a point – every state treats refusal to DUI tests in a particular way and hence, one should be aware of the rules. Implied laws of consent Every person is granted a suite of rights and can exercise them in their own discretion. This makes it obvious that a person cannot be forced to give justifications against them, and if a person chooses to be silent regarding any matter, then nobody can exercis...