Tuesday, May 14, 2013
The National Transportation Safety Board recommends reducing the limit. Some say it would save lives. Others say it's unreasonable.
One drink could be the standard for drunken driving – at least for some people if the National Transportation Safety Board has its way. On Tuesday, the NTSB recommended states lower the blood-alcohol threshold for driving under the influence from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent. What do you think? Is this a reasonable proposal? According to a 2011 Mothers Against Drunk Driving report, the latest available data shows New Jersey ranked 31st out of 51 states (including the District of Columbia) in drunken driving injuries and deaths. That year, there were 193 DUI fatalities, MADD said. About 10,000 deaths nationwide a year are related to drunken driving. The NTSB says the lower limit would save 500 to 800 lives a year. Officials at the American …
Monday, December 3, 2012
'Drunk Driving Enforcement' program participation set for 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.
As if you already didn't have plenty of reasons not to drink and drive, the Morristown Police Department would like to offer one more. From 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 14, Morristown officers will be conducting sobriety checkpoints throughout town as part of the national "Drunk Driving Enforcement" program to stop drunk driving. Through the use of a grant provided by the New Jersey Division of Highway Traffic Safety, officers will be assigned to roving patrols and sobriety checkpoints in order to identify and arrest motorists who are driving while intoxicated, according to a press release. "The goal is to discourage people from driving impaired," said Lt. Darnell Richardson, traffic safety unit supervisor. "It is also intended to …
Friday, July 20, 2012
West Orange woman was nearly twice over the legal limit early Sunday morning, police said.
A West Orange resident was allegedly drunk when she drove the wrong way around the Green before turning the wrong way down Market Street, Morristown Police said. Stephanie Scagliozzi, 28, was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, driving the wrong way on a one-way street and failure to produce proof of insurance. Officer Joseph Heuneman responded to a report of a vehicle going the wrong way around the Green Sunday at about 2:30 a.m. Heuneman conducted a motor vehicle stop and asked the driver, Scagliozzi, how many drinks she had that evening, police said. She first said "one glass of wine," police said. Later, during field sobriety tests, Scagliozzi said she had had "two glasses of wine," police said. While at the the police…
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Monday, July 2, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Morristown Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Police say a Montville man pulled over for suspected driving while intoxicated had a Blood Alcohol Content triple the legal limit allowed in New Jersey. Glen Gambal, 43, of Montville, was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, careless driving and failure to maintain a lane at 1:30 a.m. on June 21. Officer Adam Khoudja, in his report, noted Gambal's Audi SUV was unable to maintain a lane on Morris Street, even occasionally drifting over the double-yellow lines separating traffic direction. As his vehicle approached the Morris and Elm intersection, it slowed despite Gambal having a green light, according to the report. Khoudja activated his lights, but Gambal's vehicle continued driving until it reached the I-287 North …
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Morristown Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Police say a driver pulled over after being observed driving erratically in the area of Morris Street and Blachley Place later registered nearly triple the legal limit in a Blood Alcohol Content test. Jill Falgiano, 36, of Williamsville, NY, was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, careless driving, failure to exhibit insurance, having an unregistered vehicle and failure to use a turn signal at 1:06 a.m. June 15 after a bystander told Officer Anthony O'Brien that he had seen a woman stumble to her car and believed she may be drunk. O'Brien proceeded to follow Falgiano's gray 2008 Infiniti sedan as it drove on Morris Street about half-a-car-length away from the vehicle in front of her, then make a sharp turn onto Blachley …
Friday, May 11, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Morristown Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Morristown police say a man brought in for alleged driving while intoxicated refused to submit to a breath test because, he said, he only had one lung. But, when police told George Fahme, 25, of Brooklyn, NY, they were going to add a charge of refusal to submit to a breath test to an already extensive list of charges, he told them he would "do it right this time," police said. Fahme was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated, delaying/obstructing traffic, unclear plates, failure to wear a seatbelt, careless driving, refusal to submit to the test and failure to exhibit a driver's license at 2:15 a.m. on April 25. Officer Anthony O'Brien was driving through a Morristown Parking Authority lot when his path was blocked by a 2008 …
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Sunday, May 6, 2012
The police found her car crashed with the airbags deployed, but the driver had fled the scene.
A Dover woman was allegedly under the influence of alcohol when she drove the wrong way on Interstate 287, crashed her vehicle in Parsippany and fled the scene before being apprehended early Sunday morning, State Police said. Natasha Salazar, 19, was charged with driving under the influence, reckless driving, failure to report an accident, possession of a controlled dangerous substance in a motor vehicle, obstructing the passage of other motor vehicles, willful abandonment and other lesser motor vehicle offenses, according to State Trooper Christopher Kay, of the Netcong barracks. According to Kay, troopers received a call after midnight that a car was traveling north on the southbound lanes of Interstate 287. The troopers found the car …
Monday, April 30, 2012
The following arrest information was supplied by the Morristown Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Morristown Police say a drunk driver plowed through Belgian Block curbing, a traffic control sign and a steel decorative column before finally stopping in the bushes of a Franklin Street residence. And then, police say, the driver tried to hide and lie his way out of getting in trouble. Police arrested and charged Michael Mathisen, 24, of Union Hill Road in Madison with driving under the influence, reckless driving and careless driving at 4:15 a.m. on April 13. According to the report filed by Morristown Officer Eric Petr, the vehicle, a green 1997 Subaru, had been driven off the road. Petr noted in his report having seen the same vehicle earlier in the evening, driven by a white male in a green T-shirt. That same white male, later …
Thursday, December 8, 2011
The following arrest information was supplied by the Morristown Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
Morristown police arrested and charged the following recently with driving under the influence and related charges: For questions about this post, email john.dunphy@patch.com.
disgusted
5:10 pm on Friday, May 17, 2013
Chris thats why an officers opinion is formed on the road with coordination tests before the subject comes in for a breath test., one other question where do you get ampoules for your machine? more ›