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The Problems with the So-Called "Reliable" DUI Walk-and-Turn Field Sobriety Test

By Neil Shouse, Esq.

The walk-and-turn test is one of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?s ?standardized? DUI field sobriety tests. This means that it is deemed ?reliable? as an accurate measure of one?s alcohol and/or drug impairment. There are two problems with this. The first problem is that the walk-and-turn DUI field sobriety test is only 68% accurate. Although...by DUI standards?this percentage is considered high, I can?t think of another scientific forum where a 68% accuracy rate would be considered even close to reliable. This basically means that one out of every three people is falsely arrested for DUI based on this field sobriety test. The second problem with the walk-and-turn DUI field sobriety test is that there is a significant portion of our population that can?t perform this test well, even while sober...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blogger on February 11, 2010 (boomark / email).