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Suspected DUI Crash Kills Vegas Woman

Las Vegas metro police said a Las Vegas woman was killed Sunday in a suspected DUI crash at the intersection of Rainbow Boulevard and Flamingo Road.

According to police, the crash occurred at 1:13 a.m., when a truck slammed into the side of a car.

Investigators said evidence at the scene and witness statements indicate that a 24-year-old Vegas woman driving a Pontiac Sunfire was making a left turn from eastbound Flamingo Road onto northbound Rainbow Boulevard during a green light. At the same time, a Dodge pickup truck — driven by 18-year-old Kevin Miranda and carrying a 16-year-old female passenger — was traveling southbound, failed to stop for a red light and struck the left side of the turning car.

Police said both the woman driving the Pontiac Sunfire and the 16-year-old passenger of the truck were taken to University Medical Center. The driver was pronounced dead shortly after arrival; the teen passenger was treated and released.

The victim’s identity is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

Investigators said that Miranda had been drinking prior to the crash and failed field sobriety testing. He was arrested and booked into the Clark County Detention Center for two counts of felony DUI alcohol.

Police said the crash marked the 82nd traffic fatality in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s jurisdiction this year.

Contact a Nevada DUI attorney when suspected of Las Vegas DUI.

Pamela Bach Booked for DUI

TMZ reported that Pamela Bach the ex-wife of actor David Hasselhoff  was arrested last night for DUI. The arrest follows ex-husband David Hasselhoff’s recent hospitalization over the weekend , when ambulances were called after a 911 call made by his daughter.

It is reported that Pamela Bach took a breathalyzer test and blew .14. She was taken to Van Nuys police station where she was booked and released on a $15,000 bail.

Pamela Bach told TMZ reporters “I am remorseful and mortified. I am going through a really difficult time between David being hospitalized and dealing with the divorce.

David Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach’s divorce was final in 2007. Bach also stated that she had been trying to comfort her kids earlier that evening and went out to dinner where she a few drinks.

This is the second DUI offense this year for Pamela Bach, who was previously arrested in March 2009. California laws state that a second DUI offense is punishable by mandatory jail time.

TMZ also posted the update from Pamela Bach saying that she was on her way to an AA meeting last night.

Sadly in just a couple of days time span the daughters of David Hasselhoff and Pamela Bach are in more family stress and turmoil while attempting to aid  now  what seems as both of their parents in recovery.

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Motorized Bar Stool from Ohio DUI Being Auctioned

A motorized bar stool that got an Ohio man arrested for drunken driving goes up for auction this week on eBay.

Twenty-nine-year-old Kile Wygle was charged with driving under the influence after he crashed the contraption in March in the central Ohio city of Newark. He pleaded guilty the following month and spent three days in jail.

A Licking County judge ruled in June that any profit from sale of the stool should go toward back child support. At the time, Wygle owed about $37,000.

The county seized the bar stool and plans to post it for auction on Thursday. The agency intervened after learning that Wygle hoped to sell the barstool to Ripley’s Believe it or Not.

If you have been charged with an Ohio DUI, waste no time contacting an Ohio DUI attorney.

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Illinois Judge Rules Seizure of Drunk Drivers’ Vehicles is Unconstitutional

County judge challenges state law allowing seizure of vehicles after Illinois DUI.

DuPage County Associate Judge Thomas C. Dudgeon ruled that a state law allowing police and municipalities to seize vehicles of Illinois DUI offenders is unconstitutional. The law is intended to penalize repeat DUI offenders caught driving with a suspended driver’s license. Dudgeon ruled that the vehicle forfeiture statute gives the state too broad of authority, and he especially cited troubling cases involving co-ownership of a vehicle and offenders only being charged with a misdemeanor offense.

The ruling stems from a case involving three Illinois men who said the law did not allow defendants to petition a judge for return of a vehicle until after their cases of driving under the influence in Illinois were resolved. If a case went to trial, that could take several years. Family members, loved ones and even employers not accused of drunk driving were denied prompt reviews and would have to wait for the opportunity of the vehicle to be returned.

The vehicles are periodically auctioned off with neither the owner or the institution holding the vehicle title receiving funds from the sale. In some cases, the seized vehicles are assigned to local politicians and law enforcement officers for both business and private use.

Dudgeon’s opinion said that the law violated due process clauses protected in both state and federal constitutions. Anti-drunk driving advocates are enraged, saying that the greater public good outweighs the punitive damages imposed on innocent co-owners, family members or those who loan someone a vehicle. The DuPage County State’s Attorney has been consulting the state Attorney General and hopes to appeal the ruling to the Illinois Supreme Court.

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