Last week lawmakers passed a bill penalising drivers who come to New Mexico with drunk-driving convictions from other states.
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His group, Choose Responsibility, argues that the 21 law has done little to stop drunk-driving and, because it is largely unenforceable, breeds contempt for law in general.
New Mexico has the seventh-worst drunk-driving rate in the country, with 189 people killed in alcohol-related accidents in 2005, a drop of 11% from the previous year.
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Furthermore, drunk-driving smokers have not changed their ways over time.
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After leaving the Navy, Lawrence moved to Houston, worked as a medical technician, and totted up a slew of drunk-driving violations, including a conviction for murder by automobile, in 1967.
Last year, only four million or so tuned into Good Morning America for her tete-a-tete with Mel Gibson after the actor made headlines for his drunk-driving arrest and subsequent anti-Semitic rant.
The actress was released earlier this month from the women's jail in Lynwood, where she served less than two weeks of a 90-day sentence for violating her probation from a 2007 drunk-driving charge.
Her personal integrity has made her all the more willing to appoint special prosecutors (when she was a lawyer in Miami, she called in a special prosecutor to investigate drunk-driving charges against her own mother).
Other signs show photographs of drunk-driving victims.
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The big question haunting the Republican Party has been whether the evangelical foot-soldiers could be bothered to do the grunt work or even turn out to vote (Karl Rove blamed Mr Bush's election squeaker in 2000 on the fact that 4m evangelicals stayed at home when they heard of young George's drunk-driving conviction).
Martine's small business team, which works with Antieri, built a videoconferencing app for a Florida-based home health care provider and an anti-drunk driving app for a Long Island entrepreneur.
Although Nissan has already considered an add-on option that would prevent inebriated individuals from motoring around on a whim, it looks like Toyota is following suit with its own anti-drunk driving approach.
If Karl Rove is right, a last-minute story in the 2000 election -- that George W. Bush had been arrested for drunk driving as a young man -- kept a few million likely Republican voters, mostly white evangelicals, away from the polls.
The younger Sebastiani, according to two of his relatives, had a habit of getting drunk and driving into objects--on one occasion, a stop sign.
Though Mr. King had a history of drunk driving, wife-beating, and violent armed robbery, several of the officers were found guilty in the second trial.
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Dealing with Ranger's previous convictions for drink-driving, battery and being drunk and disorderly, Mr Forrester said they happened within a six-week period in autumn 2011, and that the battery offences for which he was given 12-month conditional discharge happened when he struggled with police having been racially abused in the street by others.
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But if we are to succeed, we should understand: The campaign against obesity will have to look a lot less like the campaign against smoking (which involves just one decision, to smoke or not to smoke) and much more like the generation-long campaign against highway fatalities, which required the redesign of cars, the redesign of highways, and changes in personal behavior like seat-belt use and drunk driving.
These included a 20-year-old drunk-driver stopped in Glasgow who already had three cases pending for drink-driving and a 28-year-old woman stopped in Ayr who was found to be almost four times the legal limit.
Across the country in California, state lawmakers are considering measures that would expand the categories of high-risk people who cannot legally purchase or possess firearms -- including repeat drug and drunk driving offenders and people who violate domestic violence restraining orders.
Oddly, the pro-reform coalition includes Mothers Against Drunk Driving, the South Carolina Baptist Convention, the Palmetto Family Council and the Christian Coalition.
In the early 1980s, when grass-roots safety groups brought attention to drunk driving, many states required a 0.15 BAC rate to demonstrated intoxication.
Public response to the leaked tapes is even harsher than it was after his 2006 arrest for drunk driving when the actor made sexist and anti-Semitic remarks to the arresting officers.
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News broke only yesterday that Alice Walton, daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, was charged with drunk driving on Friday of the week before.
Goalkeeper Lenny Pidgeley has been charged with drink-driving while striker Gary Madine was fined for being drunk and disorderly last weekend.
The next year, she was arrested for drunk driving in Nashville, and was beaten and choked by ex-boyfriend Billy McKnight, who was charged with attempted murder.
And the incidence of drunk driving by pro athletes who can easily afford their own full-time drivers but often choose not to reflects both an appalling lack of personal responsibility and recognition of the past shortcomings of others who thought they were above it all.
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They arose from the February, 2010 drunk driving incident during which Goodman reportedly ran a stop sign, killed a 23-year old man, and fled the scene.
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Our small grass-roots movement grew into a groundswell that radically changed society's views on drunk driving.
Xinos was sentenced to seven years in prison for drunk driving, vehicular manslaughter, and fleeing the scene of an accident after a hit-and-run in 2006 that killed a 15-year-old boy.
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The Cardiff Blues back-row was axed from the Six Nations squad in February for driving a golf buggy while drunk.
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