Posts tagged intoxicated

• Breath-Test Ignition Interlocks for First-Time DUIs Being Considered in Virginia

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | February 13, 2012 9:18 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A bill making its way through the 2012 Virginia General Assembly would require first-time drunk driving offenders to have a breath-test machine installed in their vehicles if a court restricts...

• Why can't I use the fact that the underage defendant was drinking before the crash ?

  Doug Landau | September 08, 2011 6:34 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  It seems so unfair ! If the driver who caused the crash tells the cops she's been drinking, that should come in to court when the injury case is tried. However, negligence law—the law that...

• No D.C. alcohol breath tests to catch drunk drivers

  Doug Landau | June 06, 2011 9:31 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Breathalizer test results are often used as evidence to prosecute drunk drivers and keep dangerous motorists off the roads of the DC metropolitan area. As a former prosecutor, evidence taken from...

• Will “No Refusal” Policy for Suspected Drunk Drivers Make Its Way to Virginia?

  Emily Mapp Brannon | December 30, 2010 7:51 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In some states, a “no refusal” policy is being instituted on weekends to try and deter drunk driving. During a “no refusal” weekend, state highway troopers can receive a...

• DUI High-Speed Crash Wrongful Death Lawsuit: Jail AND a Verdict in Florida

  Doug Landau | December 15, 2010 6:18 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  People ask car crash lawyer Doug Landau of the ABRAMS LANDAU law firm in Herndon, Virginia, if you can still sue a drunk or reckless driver if they have been sent to jail. Posts by Herndon lawyer...

• Bench trial verdict for child struck and dragged by drunk driver

  Doug Landau | September 03, 2010 9:25 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The plaintiff in this case was a 5 year old boy who was playing in a parking lot near his home, who was struck by the Defendant's vehicle and then dragged several feet across the pavement. After the...

• "Alcohol Energy Drinks" (AEDs) enable dangerous "wide awake drunks"

  Doug Landau | December 13, 2009 6:19 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Caffeine + Stimulants + Alcohol = danger on the roads. This is the new math. With several hundred different energy drinks on the market, today's young people can legally buy a buzz in a can from...

• Illegal, intoxicated and unlicensed drivers - where's the insurance ?

  Doug Landau | October 20, 2009 1:00 AM | 1 CommentFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  If the driver is in the country illegally, he or she is unlicensed. This greatly increases the odds that the vehicle is unregistered. Often an illegal or unlicensed resident will purchase a car at...

• Do I have insurance if I have been the victim of a "hit and run" accident ?

  Doug Landau | October 19, 2009 8:19 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  You might be familiar with Dudley Do-Right, the dull-witted but well meaning Canadian mountie who “always gets his man”. Do-Right’s slippery nemesis is the vile Snidely Whiplash...

• Car Cell Phone Use as Dangerous as Drunk Driving

  Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton | March 09, 2009 12:01 PM | 1 CommentNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  If the driver who struck your car with his pickup truck was talking on the cell phone causing your wife to be hospitalized, it is just as if he was driving while intoxicated. As a Virginia injury...