There are just under 200 million U.S. drivers and between 25 million and 50 million traffic citations are written each year. That’s according to the National Motorists Association back in 2007. Statistic Brain more recently estimated that 41 million people get speeding tickets each year. And only 5 percent of drivers contest them. Long story…
The Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists gathers information on DUIs each year and releases the data in an annual survey. Based on the most recent data available, we compiled a list of DUI arrests for the larger municipalities in Kankakee and Iroquois counties. For comparison, we included the figures — particularly arrest rate-per-officer — for the…
Court supervision is a DUI defendant’s one get-out-of-jail-free card. You get one, and one only, in your lifetime. It doesn’t mean you get off scot-free. It means you have a year or two to prove to a judge that you can stay out of trouble and, if and when you can do that, the DUI…
We know that people are likelier to drink on holidays (yes, the Super Bowl is an unsanctioned national holiday), and that usually means an increase in alcohol-related traffic crashes. But what’s surprising is just which drivers are potentially at a higher risk on the road after the big game. According to physicians at the University…
