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12 unusual facts about Driving Under the Influence


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Some jurisdictions where cannabis use is decriminalized or permitted under some circumstances use such tests when determining whether drivers were legally intoxicated and therefore unfit to drive, with the comparative levels of THC, 11-OH-THC and 11-COOH-THC being used to derive a "blood cannabis level" analogous to the blood alcohol level used in prosecuting impaired drivers.

1992 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

In the opener, freshman Michael Proctor kicked four field goals and Alabama defeated Vanderbilt 25–8 despite the absence of star WR/KR David Palmer, then serving a suspension for a drunk driving arrest.

Cold Showers

Mickael (Johan Libereau) is from a poor working class family - his father Gérard (Jean-Philippe Ecoffey) is a taxi cab driver who lost his license and then his job as a result of a police roadblock targeting drivers under the influence of alcohol.

Da Pump

Following a DUI arrest in 2005, Shinbou temporarily suspended all activities from the group.

Dale Hunter

In July 2006, Hunter was arrested and charged with DUI.

Dave Kitson

On 9 January 2008, Kitson was stopped by police whilst driving late at night near his home in Shinfield, Berkshire, and was charged with failing to provide a breath sample.

David J. Campanale

His most notable contributions during his time as CMSAF include a push for single dorm occupancy, which led to the current dorm single occupancy policy, and a reduction of DUI incidents at Castle Air Force Base in 1 year from over 190, to less than 5.

Fabian Delph

On 23 December 2008, he was arrested by police and charged for drink driving in Rothwell, Leeds, while driving home with four friends.

John Mobley

Mobley served seven days in prison for a DUI conviction in 2004 after being pulled over and arrested on December 28, 2002.

Liquid Lives

Also mentioned is a man who "fell off his horse and shot himself", and "a drunk driver".

Mark Philo

An inquiry into the crash, which also resulted in the death of the driver of another car, found that it was caused by Philo driving whilst intoxicated by alcohol.

Nashville West

White then reformed his old band, the Kentucky Colonels, with his brothers, but was killed on July 14, 1973 in Palmdale, California, when he was struck by a car driven by a drunken driver.


A. J. Nicholson

During the off-season in February 2005, Nicholson was arrested for driving under the influence in Leon County, Florida, and was later ordered to serve three days of jail time in work camp and pay a $402 fine.

Aleksei Zuev

On 3 March 2007 he was arrested for threatening a man with rubber-bullet gun and driving under the influence.

Josh Pinkard

On May 18, 2007, Pinkard was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence by the California Highway Patrol.

Matthew Barnaby

On December 5, 2011, ESPN terminated its contract with Barnaby after his arrest on suspicion of DWI earlier in the day.

Mercedes-Benz W140

The car is infamous for being the model in which Diana, Princess of Wales died following a high-speed car accident in which she (as with the driver and the other passengers) was not wearing her seat belt and the driver was intoxicated.

Motorized recliner incident

In October 2009, Dennis LeRoy Anderson of Proctor, Minnesota received widespread media attention for being arrested in a DWI case involving a motorized recliner.

Utah Highway Patrol

In June 2006, Lt. Fred Swain, a 15-year UHP veteran, in charge of the Highway Patrol's DUI Squad (a section within the Highway Patrol tasked specifically with the enforcement of DUI laws), was charged with DUI after crashing his patrol car into a barrier on Bangerter Highway.

WPXT

It made national headlines a week before the 2000 Presidential election when reporter Erin Fehlau (now at ABC affiliate WMUR-TV) revealed Republican candidate George W. Bush had been convicted for driving under the influence of alcohol 24 years earlier.