Marin DUI Lawyer Blog

Arrests for DUI by the California Highway Patrol went up dramatically over the 2017 holiday season compared to 2016. Statewide, more people were arrested in California for driving over the influence during the Thanksgiving and Christmas weekends in 2017.  The CHP arrested 936 people for DUI from December 29, 2017 to January 1, 2018, an increase of 22 percent increase over last year.

The Golden Gate Division of the CHP, serving the Bay Area, arrested 157 people for DUI, nearly double the number in 2016.

A drinking and driving conviction for a first offense in Marin County or elsewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area can result in punishment including probation, fines, a DUI school and up to 6 months in jail under the California Vehicle Code. Drivers with multiple DUI offenses for driving under the influence face even greater punishment. Whether arrested for DUI in Dixon, Vacaville, Fairfield, Vallejo, or Benicia, you need to call an experienced aggressive driving under the influence attorney for help.

The California Highway Patrol Santa Rosa Area office made 22 driving under the influence arrests over the 2017-2018 New Year’s weekend.  The CHP also reported making 14 arrests the prior week over the Christmas weekend.  The Santa Rosa Area CHP reports that they normally make 12 to 15 DUI arrests every weekend throughout the year.

From November 22, 2017 through January 2, 2018, the Santa Rosa police made 74 DUI arrests, up from 64 last year.

If you receive a speeding ticket, cell phone ticket, DUI or other traffic related offense in on a Petaluma, Rhonert Park, Novato, San Rafael or anywhere in Northern California, call an experienced aggressive traffic ticket and DUI attorney for help.

On November 3, 2017, police in New York City arrested Rapper Fetty Wap for DUI and other traffic offenses.  Police contacted the rapper after he was spotted drag racing on a  a New York City highway.

Fetty Was was  s given a breathalyzer test and had a blood alcohol concentration of.09.  The New York legal limit of .08.

If you are arrested for drunk driving, or if you get a traffic ticket in Novato, San Rafael, Sausalito, or anywhere in Marin County call an experienced aggressive traffic ticket and DUI defense attorney for help.

On Wednesday, October 25, 2017 the California Highway Patrol in Napa County arrested a 63 year old Marin County woman for drunk driving after she was involved in a head on collision.  The Novato woman suffered serious injuries as a result of the three-car collision.  Police said that she crashed head-on into a 2009 Toyota and then into a 2015 Honda.

California drivers who are arrested for a DUI in Napa, Marin or any of the State’s fifty-eight counties face the possibility of jail time, the loss of their driving privilege, fines and mandatory attendance at a DUI school if convicted. The costs of defending a drunk driving case can sometimes exceed $10,000.
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Two drivers in West Sonoma County were arrested for DUI on Sunday after hitting each other head-on.  The crash happend around 4 a.m. on Valley Ford Road.   A truck driven by one of the suspected drunk drivers went across double yellow lines and struck the other suspected drunk driver’s pickup.

The front ends of both trucks were crushed and both drivers were trapped in their vehicles.  Firefighters from multiple jurisdictions including Marin County and the U.S. Coast Guard pried the drivers from the wreckage.

Both drivers were taken by ambulance to the hospital where they were cited for driving under the influence.

On Monday, June 26, 2017, City of Fairfield Police were called to investigate a possibly impaired driver in a parking lot on the 1300 block of North Texas Street.  When they arrived the police found a pickup truck stopped in the roadway on Texas Street at Jefferson Street.  When an officer contacted the driver and told her to turn off the pickup truck she refused and drove away only to stop again  in the middle of the street at Texas and Madison streets.

When another Fairfield Police Officer pulled up behind the truck, the driver backed up hitting the front of the police car.  The driver then took off again the chase was on.  The driver ran a red light and struck a City of Fairfield Public Works vehicle, and hit another police car prior to stopping.  Fairfield Police Officers took the driver and her passenger into custody.  The driver was arrested for driving under the influence.

If you are arrested for DUI, whether in Vallejo, Pinole, Richmond or Oakland, call an experienced aggressive driving under the influence attorney for help.