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Drunk Drivers Endanger Children, Steal Police Car

By guest-writer

Unfortunately, as we’ve chronicled many times before, driving under the influence and poor decision-making tend to go hand-in-hand. In a couple of incidents reported in the news recently, alleged drunk drivers endangered children — a far too common occurrence — and police in two separate incidents stemming from DUI. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that a man is accused of driving drunk and texting, all with four children in the back seat of his SUV. Ruben Rodriguez was seen by police to be speeding and texting on a Sunday. They pulled him over and determined that he was driving under the influence. They also learned that he had four children in the back seat of his Kia sport utility vehicle. The man was also driving with a driver’s license that required him to drive only vehicles with an ignition interlock device to measure his blood alcohol content before starting the car...continue to full post

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on October 07, 2010 (boomark / email).