DWI Hit Parade!

From LEX18.com
Here’s a story that pegs the hypocrisy meter.
Indiana state troopers arrested a Seymour, Ind. police officer on DUI charges after he crashed a pickup pulling a D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) trailer Wednesday night.
Police say John Newcomb, 38, was driving the pickup pulling the trailer along Main Street in Salem around 10:30 p.m. when he sideswiped a legally parked vehicle along the road and crashed into a tree.
Investigators say it was quickly apparent alcohol was likely a factor.
The crash woke Tina Robbins up

From Orlando Sentinel
An Orange County firefighter with an extensive disciplinary record has been fired after a DUI arrest, according to documents from Orange County Fire Rescue.
Matthew Hotchkiss, 25, of Winter Park, was arrested by the Daytona Beach Shores Department of Public Safety on July 10. His termination was effective Friday, according to a July 21 termination letter from the fire department.
Hotchkiss reportedly drove into a parking lot behind the public safety department through an entrance marked “do not enter.” When a public safety officer stopped Hotchkiss, the officer noticed that the firefighter-paramedic smelled strongly of alcohol, according to an arrest report….MORE

From MiniCassia.com
BURLEY • A Heyburn man on probation for causing a 2005 alcohol-involved crash that killed a Rupert teen has pleaded guilty to a separate driving under the influence charge.
Robert Ray Brackenbury, 27, will be sentenced for a March 2010 DUI charge at 1:30 p.m. Sept. 13, in Cassia County 5th District Court. His guilty plea will also represent a violation of his probation for a vehicular manslaughter charge related to the death of 14-year-old Aimee Marie Souza of Rupert.
According to court documents, Brackenbury entered the guilty plea to DUI as part of a July 19 plea agreement……MORE

From 10News.com
CARLSBAD, Calif. (July 28, 2011)– A young woman was jailed Thursday on suspicion of manslaughter, drunken driving and hit-and-run in the death of a 64-year-old cyclist in Carlsbad.
Arthur John Jacobs of Vista was fatally struck while riding his bike around 9:45 p.m. Wednesday, near the intersection of El Camino Real and Cassia Street, according to the county Medical Examiner’s Office…..MORE

From Seattle Times
After his SUV slammed into another man’s car in Kirkland on Sunday afternoon, the driver got out and “pounded on his chest like a gorilla,” according to a witness to the fatal crash.
Steven Lacey, the driver of the car, was killed instantly, according to Patricia Kaiser, of Kirkland, who witnessed the crash near Interstate 405. The driver of the SUV, identified by the State Patrol as Patrick Rexroat, was charged Wednesday with vehicular homicide while under the influence of alcohol and reckless driving.
If convicted, he faces about 3 ½ years in prison…..MORE