DWI Hit Parade!

From The Daily Record
DOVER — A Dover police officer sustained minor injuries Friday morning after a drunken driver crashed into the officer’s patrol car parked along Route 46 near Princeton Ave.
At about 9:30 a.m. Friday, Alfonso Burgos, 62, of Wharton, traveling west on Route 46, crashed into Officer Jonathan Delaney’s marked police car which was parked on the shoulder of the roadway, said Capt. Peter Ugalde, of the Dover Police Department….MORE

From MyWestTexas.com
Leonard Dale Blackwell, a 31-year-old reserves sheriff’s deputy in Hamilton, called his parents May 14, 1993, and made dinner plans. He drove his wife and 18-month-old daughter Elizabeth out to see them, ate and was driving the family back when he was T-boned by another driver.
The car seat carrying his baby girl slammed against the window. She got a cut to her forehead. His wife suffered a broken arm.
But the young father and husband was killed instantly……MORE

From WKTV
GRIEG, N.Y. - A dive team was called in just after 1:00 Sunday morning in the Town of Grieg in Lewis County after a patrol officer spotted a vehicle submerged in the Black River.
As members of the cold water rescue team and Lewis County Dive Team arrived on scene, investigators say the driver of that car was found safe, but intoxicated, in the nearby Village of Glenfield. ….MORE

 From NJ.com
State Police Superintendent Rick Fuentes has ordered stricter policies on alcohol-related motor vehicle incidents involving troopers and launched an extensive review on the use of undercover identification cards.
The order, dated Monday and obtained by The Star-Ledger, was distributed to the command staff of the 2,900-member force and it came one day after the newspaper revealed the alleged cover-up of a trooper’s violent highway accident in Camden County in 2009.
Detective Sgt. William Billingham, an undercover trooper who carried a false identity, rear-ended Philadelphia resident Clayton Tanksley while off-duty and driving an unmarked trooper car, according to internal State Police memos….MORE

From Daily Independent
BLYTHE, Calif – On Monday May 23, 2011, the gymnasium at Palo Verde Valley High School will be transformed into a real courtroom where
Judge Sarah Christian of Riverside County Superior Court will preside and sentence a real defendant who has been charged with driving under the influence (DUI)….MORE

From WHBF
MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. (AP) – A suburban Chicago man who reportedly drove his truck into the path of a Metra commuter train had more than 50 traffic violations, including a DUI arrest.
Police say 59-year-old Kazimierz Karasek of Prospect Heights disregarded a “No Left Turn” sign as well as downed gates and crossing lights
Friday to drive in front of the train. ….MORE