
Posted by PKSD Law Firm on Jul 27, 2015 in Drunken Driving Accidents
Drunk driving accidents are preventable incidents that injure and kill thousands across the country every year. Fortunately, according to Wisconsin transportation officials, alcohol-related fatalities throughout the state have dropped 50 percent in the…
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Posted by PKSD Law Firm on Oct 08, 2010 in Drunken Driving Accidents
Three people were killed early Thursday on Interstate 39-90-94 in Madison when a drunken driver veered off the road and slammed into their disabled car.
The crash happened around 2:40 a.m. on the median shoulder of I-39-90-94, about a mile north of the…
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Posted by PKSD Law Firm on Sep 28, 2009 in Drunken Driving Accidents
The state of Wisconsins drunken driving campaign and subsequent enforcement came to a headway this past Labor Day with more than 1,200 arrests.
The campaign, part of the national effort called Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest., ran from August…
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Posted by PKSD Law Firm on Sep 18, 2009 in Drunken Driving Accidents
Wisconsin State Journal writer Jason Stein posted the criminal status for drunken driving in the surrounding midwest states. They are as follows:
Illinois
First and second offenses are class A misdemeanors, third and subsequent offenses are class 4…
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Posted by PKSD Law Firm on Jul 29, 2009 in Drunken Driving Accidents
A Marinette man accused of drunken driving in a crash that killed five people near Peshtigo in Marinette County has pleaded not guilty to 21 felony charges, including multiple counts of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle.
The auto accident…
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Posted by PKSD Law Firm on Jul 10, 2009 in Drunken Driving Accidents
A 14-year-old girl was driving under the influence of alcohol when she crashed a pickup truck, causing the death of one teen and injuries to another.
Hanna Yager of Clayton was operating a 2001 Ford pickup truck near Turtle Lake when she lost control,…
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Posted by PKSD Law Firm on Jul 01, 2009 in Drunken Driving Accidents
DUIs just dont happen on Wisconsins roadways, they happen on Wisconsins waterways as well. According to the Winona County Sheriffs Office, a Galesville man with six previous DUI convictions narrowly missed eight young swimmers before crashing his boat.…
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Posted by PKSD Law Firm on Jul 01, 2009 in Drunken Driving Accidents
Nicole M. Bailey, 27, has been arrested 4 times in three weeks for drunk driving in Milwaukee and Waukesha County, including after dropping her children off at school.
When she was arrested for drunk driving in Milwaukee on April 25th. At that time,…
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Posted by PKSD Law Firm on May 18, 2009 in Drunken Driving Accidents
A Brown County Circuit Court Judge sentenced Anrietta Geske to 80 years in prison for killing Ashley Britsch-Knetzger, 18, and Talhia Heroux, 18, in an Ashwaubenon car accident.
Last March, a jury found Geske guilty of two counts of first-degree reckless…
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Posted by PKSD Law Firm on Dec 02, 2008 in Drunken Driving Accidents
A recent Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article referenced yet another border states approach to drunk driving as a blueprint to improving Wisconsins drunk driving laws.
Iowas stance on drunk driving goes back to 1925 when the state imprisoned first-offense…
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