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Drunk Driving Accidents

• Are you ready for Checkpoint Strikeforce?
• What are drunk drivers doing when they cause an accident?
• Did a Virginia teen get away with murder – twice?
• Looking forward to your Superbowl party? Don't become a dangerous driver!
• The Effect of Minimum Legal Drinking Age Laws and Drunk Driving Accidents

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Firm News

• DUI and involuntary manslaughter charges for Stafford County woman
  Posted on 2/25/2010
• Culpeper DUI traffic stop leads to drug charges for Maryland couple
  Posted on 12/20/2009
• Manslaughter charges for Stafford man who killed two in drunk driving crash
  Posted on 11/21/2009
• Driving Under the Influence Kills Mother and Son
  Posted on 9/23/2009
• Rise in number of women caught driving under the influence of alcohol
  Posted on 8/20/2009
• Spotsylvania teen charged with DUI in Culpeper crash
  Posted on 7/30/2009
• Culpeper resident charged with DUI
  Posted on 7/20/2009
• Fatal beltway accident caused by drunk driver with numerous traffic violations
  Posted on 7/15/2009
• Culpeper man sentenced after alcohol-related crash injures police officer
  Posted on 3/31/2009
• Culpeper police warn of drunk driving dangers
  Posted on 3/19/2009

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Drunk Driving Accidents

• It’s not only drunk drivers who are to blame in Virginia DUI crashes
• Virginia Supreme Court: Anonymous tip not enough to pull over a drunk driver
• Drivers support device to prevent drinking and driving

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Culpeper man sentenced after alcohol-related crash injures police officer

A Culpeper man who pleaded guilty in December of maiming a police officer as a result of driving while intoxicated and felony hit and run was sentenced this week.  The accident, which happened on March 15, 2008, seriously injured an off-duty police officer.

The driver, Santos Obidio Arita Najera, 31, injured the officer when he crossed solid double yellow lines and crashed into him.  Arita Najera was driving a 2004 Toyota Tacoma truck when he hit the officer, Prince William Police Lt. Phillip E. Harrover Jr., who was riding a 2006 Kawasaki motorcycle.  The collision caused Harrover to be thrown from his motorcycle into a 2003 Jeep Wrangler.

Arita Najera tried to flee the scene of the accident but was stopped by other drivers on the road.  The man, a Honduran national, was in the U.S. illegally.  A judge sentenced him to 10 years in prison with five and half years suspended.  The sentence was more than Virginia’s voluntary sentencing guidelines called for.

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Drunk Driving Accidents

Injuries Caused by Drunk Driver = $475,000

Wreck Caused By Drunk Driver - Fractured Knee - $200,000

Injuries Caused By Drunk Driver - $110,000

Small But Unique Drunk Driving Case - $30,000

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