HYDERABAD: The citys swish set are wary of visiting pubs nowadays. With the traffic police arresting people caught drunken driving and producing them in court, most youngsters who frequent pubs are preferring to drink at home, to avoid being caught drunk driving on roads. This has led to a decline in business between 20 and 40 per cent in the past one month, according to pub owners. With city police...
11:21 AM, Nov 22, 2011
HYDERABAD: Here is some good news for teetotalers and bad news for boozers. The traffic police will now get tough with drunken drivers. Besides detaining the vehicle, the cops will book a case against the culprits under Section 185 of the IPC and impose a penalty of Rs 1,000. Introducing the latest hand-held breath alcohol analysers, funded by the World Health Organisation (WHO) here on Thursday, C V Anand, Additional...
04:03 PM, Oct 28, 2011
Framingham (Massachusetts): An uncle of President Barack Obama has been charged with drunk driving in Massachusetts and is being held by immigration officials. Onyango Obama was arrested last week in Framingham after police said he made a rolling stop and nearly caused a cruiser to strike his sport utility vehicle. Police said that when asked if he wanted to make a phone call, the 67-year-old Obama said, "I think I...
07:57 AM, Aug 30, 2011
New Orleans: Actor Nicolas Cage was arrested after he got drunk in the city's French Quarter and argued in the street with his wife over whether a house they were in front of was theirs, police said on Saturday. The couple was in front of a home that Cage insisted they were renting, police said. When she said it wasn't theirs, Cage grabbed her arm, according to a police news...
09:16 AM, Apr 17, 2011
Mumbai: The prosecution for the Bandra-Worli Sea Link accident on Monday could lose key evidence if doctors fail to ascertain whether the driver, Ranjeet Kamble, had consumed alcohol before driving. The matter assumes significance after people known to him alleged that he could have been drunk while driving. On Monday, Kamble, a resident of BDD Chawl, Worli, had rammed a Toyota carrying nine other people into a divider close to...
07:19 PM, Mar 23, 2011
Waltham, Massachusetts: An alcohol-detection prototype that uses automatic sensors to instantly gauge a driver's fitness to be on the road has the potential to save thousands of lives, but could be as long as a decade away from everyday use in cars, federal officials and researchers said on Friday. US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood visited QinetiQ North America, a Waltham, Massachusetts - based research and development facility, for the first...
11:44 AM, Jan 29, 2011
London: A pilot has been jailed after he was so drunk at London's Heathrow airport he could not remember where he was flying to when asked by security officials. George La Perle, 49, who flew for Delta Airlines, was found to be four and a half times over the alcohol limit. He told security staff he was flying to New York. But his actual destination was Detroit, the Daily Express...
02:19 PM, Jan 25, 2011
London: Driving for more than three hours without a break at night is like being drunk behind the steering. Researchers found that tiredness after a few hours has the same effect as being over the drink-driving limit. Even two hours of driving in the dark can affect performance so severely that it is the same as having a couple of drinks, the Journal of Sleep Research reports. It is estimated...
07:08 PM, Jan 20, 2011
Wilmington: Police in Delaware say a man broke into a house, got drunk and couldn't make his way back outside - so he called 911 for help. New Castle County police say 44-year-old John Finch was trapped in the home in part because he'd broken into it before, back in April. That led the homeowner to change the locks so that a key was required - even inside. Police say...
12:56 PM, Jan 07, 2011
Cleveland: An Ohio drunken-driving suspect is blaming his arrest on Ozzy Osbourne. William Liston was arrested Christmas Eve in suburban Cleveland. WJW-TV says he told police officers, "Ozzy Osbourne and his music made me do it." Osbourne's hits as lead singer of heavy metal band Black Sabbath and as a solo artist include "Paranoid" and "Road to Nowhere." Liston is awaiting arraignment. He's to appear in court Tuesday on a...
12:14 PM, Dec 31, 2010
Col Devinder Singh lost his son, daughter-in-law and grand daughter, who were killed in a reckless driving accident. ...
10:06 PM, Sep 21, 2010
Mumbai: In a suspected case of drunken driving one person was killed and another seriously injured when the son of a high-profile Mumbai builder reportedly crashed his Honda Accord car into a motor cycle. The accused identified as Sunil Kothari is the son of a Mumbai builder and police claim he was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the accident. The accident occurred on Charni Road in...
11:39 AM, Sep 01, 2010
An innocent tea vendor gets beaten up by a drunken policeman in Mumbai for no apparent reason. The incident brings to light the shocking disregard of our policemen towards responsible action. No case has been lodged against the errant cop yet. ...
01:53 PM, Aug 24, 2010
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The incident took place on Friday in Bakna Khurd village in Surguja district, around 380 km from the state capital in Raipur. ...
03:50 PM, Jul 31, 2010
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The driver's blood alcohol level was determined to be .18 per cent, more than double the legal limit of .08 per cent. ...
11:56 AM, Jul 29, 2010
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The accident occurred near the Safdarjung airport flyover at 2:30 am on Monday. ...
09:06 AM, Jul 26, 2010
The actress was booked into an all-female jail in south Los Angeles for violating her probation on two 2007 charges ...
02:21 PM, Jul 21, 2010
Harpinder Singh was on sentry duty at a camp when he started indiscriminate firing at his colleagues at 10 pm Friday night. ...
10:56 AM, Jul 17, 2010
She will also be spending another three months in rehab ...
12:38 PM, Jul 08, 2010
