If you’re out drinking and you realize you’ve had too much to drive, your friends may quickly offer you a lot of advice on how you can quickly “sober up” and reduce your blood alcohol concentration (BAC). They may assure you that you can be both safe and legal quickly...
People will sometimes accuse police officers of pulling them over without a valid reason. They may assume that just because they aren’t speeding or don’t have something violating the motor vehicle code that the cops can’t initiate a traffic stop. The fact of the...
You were sure you weren't drunk when you left the party -- but you got pulled over and failed a Breathalyzer test. Failing a Breathalyzer test at 0.8% or higher can have an immense impact on your life. You may lose your license and even other freedoms. Could the...
It’s not an easy conversation to have when you sit down with your teenager for a talk about drunk driving. Young people often tune their elders out, thinking they already know best about most things. Young adults in Georgia and elsewhere also can believe they are...
Countless motorists get pulled over on suspicion of driving under the influence (DUI) every year here in Georgia. Not all of the drivers were intoxicated at the time police detained them. Even still, they end up undergoing questioning by police about whether they've...
Getting pulled over by a police officer on suspicion of drunk driving in Georgia or elsewhere in the nation can be extremely unsettling, even scary. You might realize why you were stopped. Maybe you have no idea what you did that attracted the officer’s attention....
The police pull you over and ask you to blow into the Breathalyzer. The reading is positive, and they arrest you, ignoring your protests that you have not been drinking. Is that the end of the story? Not necessarily. The police rely on Breathalyzer tests, and you are...
From the outside, it’s common for people to think that drunk drivers knew that they were intoxicated when they got behind the wheel. Other people assume that they knew what they were doing was dangerous and simply decided to drive anyway. The truth, though, is that...
You might have heard that if you fail a field sobriety test, you will automatically be arrested for driving under the influence (DUI). Like many things you hear or read, this is not necessarily true. Failing a sobriety test does not make you guilty Few tests of any...
A police officer who has made a DUI arrest will often say that he or she could smell alcohol on the subject’s breath. They may add other factors that led to the subject's arrest, like saying that they had bloodshot eyes or were slurring their words. What the officer...
