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Virginia Woman Gets Six Months Jail Time for Bike Trail Crash

A 29-year-old McLean woman has pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and hit-and-run charges in a crash with a bicyclist on the Washington and Old Dominion Trail. The Washington Post reports that Mehak Chopra was sentenced Tuesday to nearly six …

2 Remain Hospitalized After Deadly SXSW Crash

Two people remain hospitalized nearly two weeks after a suspected drunken driver veered into a South By Southwest festival crowd in a wreck blamed for three deaths. A spokesman for University Medical Center Brackenridge in Austin, Texas, said Tuesday that …

DUI Victim’s Family Sues Oregon Restaurants

The family of a Cottage Grove, Ore., woman who was killed by a drunken driver is suing the man and two restaurants that served him alcohol. In the suit filed in Lane County Circuit Court, the family of Theresa Grondona …

Seattle Crash Victims’ Family Files $45M Claim

A $45 million claim has been filed by a family that saw two loved ones killed and two others severely injured in a Seattle traffic crash that prosecutors say was caused by a drunken driver. KOMO-TV reports that the family …

North Carolina Man Charged With DWI After Hitting 4 Patrol Cars

Authorities say a drunken driver smashed into four patrol cars and injured two troopers directing traffic near the NASCAR race in Concord, N.C. Investigators said Patrick Willis was driving too fast when he exited Interstate 485 around 3:30 p.m. Saturday. …

Kentucky Crash Survivors Prepare for Anniversary Events

They are reaching middle age, in the midst of raising children and building careers. A quarter century has elapsed since an amusement park outing turned into a terrifying night, when they escaped from an old school bus that burst into …