drunk driving

Beer poured from a bottle into a glass (Photo credit: PHILIPPE HUGUEN/AFP/GettyImages)

Restaurant Association Opposes Dropping Legal Blood Alcohol Limit

The American Beverage Institute warns dropping the legal blood alcohol limit to .05 will backfire by devastating the restaurant industry, actually reducing public safety, and do nothing to attack the core of the drunk driving problem.

2013/05/14

Man Charged With DUI, Reckless Homicide In Crash With Squad Car

A Joliet man was charged with vehicular homicide after he drunkenly collided with a Chicago police cruiser Friday night — killing a passenger in his car while wounding himself, another occupant in the vehicle and two police officers.

2013/04/15

Police: Drunk Driver Crashed Into Humboldt Park Home

One man is in police custody after he crashed a car into the side of a Humboldt Park home early Monday, police said.

2013/04/08

Sam Manyfield is charged with drunk driving in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 52-year-old woman on the 4600 block of South Ashland Avenue on July 5, 2011. (Credit: Chicago Police Department)

Man Sentenced To 10 Years For Fatal Drunken Hit-And-Run

A 70-year-old Far South Side man whose blood alcohol level was “extremely high” when he fatally struck a woman on the South Side in a 2011 hit-and-run is going to prison.

2013/04/04

An SUV crashed into the back of a minivan on Lake Shore Drive near 47th Street on March 31, 2013. (Credit: Chicago Fire Department)

Driver Charged With DUI In Lake Shore Drive Crash

A 32-year-old man has been charged with felony drunk driving, after his SUV slammed into a minivan late Sunday night, critically injuring the woman driving the van.

2013/04/01

Motorist Charged With DUI In Fatal Crash Near O’Hare

A southwest suburban woman was charged with aggravated DUI after a man was killed early Saturday when he was struck by a car as he walked on the Far Northwest Side near O’Hare Airport.

2013/03/25

An off-duty CTA worker driving a pickup truck crashed into an ambulance in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on March 21, 2013. The CTA worker was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving. (Credit: CBS)

Off-Duty CTA Worker Suspected Of DUI In Crash With Ambulance

An off-duty CTA employee was arrested in the Back of the Yards neighborhood overnight, on suspicion of drunk driving, after crashing into an ambulance carrying a patient to the hospital.

2013/03/21

Oswego Cop Suspended After Standoff Outside Channahon Pizza Restaurant

An Oswego police officer has been suspended after walking into a southwest suburban pizzeria with a gun, and yelling at employees while off duty.

2013/03/14

Man Gets Community Service For Driving 142 MPH While Drunk

Dean Suominen, 37, avoided a possible jail term by pleading guilty to drunken driving and reckless driving charges stemming from the Jan. 10, 2012, crash in Naperville.

2013/02/27

Walter Depner (Credit: Illinois Department of Corrections)

New DUI Charge For Man Convicted Of Killing 4 In Drunken Crash

A parolee who spent nearly 12 years in prison for triggering a horrific drunken-driving crash that killed a McHenry County mother and her three children is facing new DUI charges.

2013/02/26

Leroy L. Bobo (Credit: Cook County Sheriff)

Driver Charged With DUI After Running Over, Killing Man

A West Side man was charged with reckless homicide and DUI, after driving his vehicle into a group of pedestrians, fatally striking a man early Saturday in the Belmont-Cragin neighborhood on the Northwest Side.

2013/02/19

Robbins Police Chief Facing New Drunk Driving Charges

The 66-year old police chief of south suburban Robbins failed a field sobriety test and a Breathalyzer last weekend when he was arrested for drunk driving, according to police in Midlothian.

WBBM Newsradio–2012/12/27

Tami Lucibello (left) and Brenda Loth (right) are both charged with drunk driving.

2 Women Charged With DUI At Same Time, Same Place

Police say they started out socializing together at a downtown bar. Then they allegedly committed traffic violations together not far from the police station, while driving home one behind the other.

2012/12/21

Candlelight Vigil Held For Victims Of Drunk Driving

There are about 40,000 drunk driving arrests in Illinois each year.

CBS Chicago–2012/12/18

Former Gov. George Ryan’s Son Arrested For DUI

The son of former Governor George Ryan was cited for drunken driving early Thursday after falling asleep at wheel in a fast food restaurant parking lot.

2012/11/23

Man Charged With DUI After Striking Elderly Pedestrian

A 26-year-old man has been charged with drunk driving, running a red light, driving without a license or insurance and other traffic violations, after he struck and critically injured an 87-year-old man who was crossing a street in the Uptown neighborhood on Friday morning.

2012/11/10

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