Incidents of Drunken Driving in San Diego

The recent time has seen quite an increase in the number of arrests for drunken driving in San Diego

. This has led not just residents, but car accident lawyers to be concerned as well. In December 2009, around 500 people who were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol within a period of just 10 days. This is a huge increase when compared with just 323 arrests for the same reason, in the same 10 day period of time, in 2008.

Reckless driving seems to be the trend during the holiday season. As a result fatal accidents also increase during this period. Many of the people involved in the accidents were not following basic safety precautions like wearing seatbelts or crossing roads carefully.

It has also become a trend in San Diego for teens to drink and drive. This has resulted in 8 teen deaths since September, with those who have died being just between the ages of 16 and 20. Most of these deaths could have been avoided by either wearing seatbelts, or abstaining from driving under the influence of alcohol. One recent death was that of a 17 year old cheerleader who insisted on driving despite being in a drunken state. She lost control of her SUV, which flipped over several times, killing her in the accident. Just 6 hours, there was another accident in which an 18 year old boy died after the car that he was riding in as a passenger hit a tree. The driver of the car was under the influence of alcohol.

There is an urgent need for those who are designated drivers' to sober up in order to reduce the number of car accidents in San Diego. Recently, a man who was supposedly sober after an office party drove his car into another car, and both cars burst into flames. While he and his passenger survived, the driver of the other vehicle did not.

Irrespective of age, it is vital to drive safely and responsibly in San Diego. Ensuring that this happens is presently of concern to law enforcement authorities and car accident lawyers. In an attempt to reduce reckless and irresponsible driving, the sheriff's department has set up some new rules confiscation of license in case of reckless or drunken driving, more curfew checks, ban on the use of cell phones while driving and restrictions on supply of alcohol to minors. These laws may help reduce the number of accidents that claim so many lives each year.

If you are in need of a San Diego accident attorney for things like a DUI hit and run, or drunk driving wrongful death, you may need a Los Angeles accident lawyer depending on thee defendant's residence, where theaccident occured, etc. When you are injured and suffer a wrongful death, spinal cord injury, brain or burn injury, contact the law firm of of Ehline Law. We are experienced and known by other bus accident attorneys and brain injury attorneys as aggressive and trustworthy.

Ehline Law PC

6700 East Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 275

Long Beach, CA 90803

(562) 342-9092

http://www.ehlinelaw.com/

Incidents of Drunken Driving in San Diego

By: Michael Ehline

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