California DUI News
- Police Saturate Region with DUI Checkpoints (News10 Sacramento) 2008-08-16
- In a drunk driving crackdown, police departments all over the Sacramento region are coordinating multiple DUI checkpoints starting this weekend.
- Clovis Woman Fights Drunk Driving Charges (KFSN-TV Fresno) 2008-08-20
- Investigators accuse Pottorff of being drunk and crashing into a pick up truck driven by Chou Thao Her who had 11 children. She died in the crash.
- College leaders hope to renew debate on a lower drinking age (Los Angeles Times) 2008-08-20
- The current limit ignores the reality of drinking on campus and pushes it underground, they say. Opponents say a rollback to age 18 would reverse declines in teen drunk driving. As college students gear up for annual back-to-school parties, a group of university and college presidents in California and across the country this week pushed for a national debate over whether the drinking age ...
- DUI crackdown begins pre-holiday (The Reporter) 2008-08-19
- Labor Day weekend is looming, and local authorities have already begun to crack down on motorists believed to be drinking and driving. Last week, Vacaville police kicked off its anti-DUI campaign within the city. The effort is slated to continue through Sept.
- DUI crackdown planned for Labor Day weekend from CSUMB to King City (The Salinas Californian) 2008-08-18
- A sobriety checkpoint in Salinas on Friday, Aug. 29, extra DUI patrols in Carmel, Monterey, Soledad and California State University, Monterey Bay along with freeway saturation by the Monterey and King City offices of the California Highway Patrol will mark the Avoid the 18 Labor Day weekend county crackdown.
- Police arrest 19 drivers at weekend DUI checkpoints (The Fresno Bee) 2008-08-18
- Fresno police arrested 19 drivers over the weekend in DUI checkpoints at two locations, officials said this morning.
- Woman killed in Riverside crash; driver arrested on suspicion of DUI (The Press-Enterprise) 2008-08-20
- A woman died as a result of a crash reported at 8:57 p.m. Tuesday on Washington Street near Kitchener Street in Riverside. She was ejected from the vehicle, taken to a hospital with critical injuries, and later died, police and fire officials said.
- Coroner identifies man killed in fiery Bay Bridge crash (San Jose Mercury News) 2008-08-17
- The Alameda County coroner's bureau has identified a man killed in a fiery drunk driving crash on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge early this morning as 21-year-old Castro Valley resident Scott Leister.
- After 2 Crashes, Teen Arrested For Hit-Run DUI In Bellflower (NBC 4 Los Angeles) 2008-08-19
- A suspected drunken driver was in custody Tuesday after he allegedly sideswiped a vehicle in Bellflower, fled the scene, and crashed moments later into a second car, injuring its driver, authorities said.
- 6 arrested at Elk Grove DUI checkpoint (The Sacramento Bee) 2008-08-19
- Elk Grove police arrested six people and issued 67 citations during a sobriety checkpoint Saturday night.
- College leaders hope to renew debate on a lower drinking age (Los Angeles Times) 2008-08-20
- The current limit ignores the reality of drinking on campus and pushes it underground, they say. Opponents say a rollback to age 18 would reverse declines in teen drunk driving. As college students gear up for annual back-to-school parties, a group of university and college presidents in California and across the country this week pushed for a national debate over whether the drinking age ...
- After 2 Crashes, Teen Arrested For Hit-Run DUI In Bellflower (NBC 4 Los Angeles) 2008-08-19
- A suspected drunken driver was in custody Tuesday after he allegedly sideswiped a vehicle in Bellflower, fled the scene, and crashed moments later into a second car, injuring its driver, authorities said.
- College Presidents Want Drinking Age Lowered To 18 (CBS 2 Los Angeles) 2008-08-19
- Should the legal drinking age be lowered from 21 to 18? One hundred university presidents, from some of the nation's best known colleges, are trying to provoke a national debate.
- School officials push lower drinking age (KABC-TV Los Angeles) 2008-08-19
- University officials are pushing new legislature that lowers the drinking age to 18.
- Colleges seek lower drinking age? (KABC-TV Los Angeles) 2008-08-18
- College presidents from the nation's best-known universities are encouraging a lower drinking age.
