What happens after you are busted for a DUI or DWI? (lease, truck)
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with my auto insurance dropping from $2400 to $1200 for my new car due to my safe driving record no way Id ever drink and drive. im now paying $700 less per year to insure my 2012 than I did to insure my 1992
I have a friend that basically was scared ****less of ever drinking and driving again. He said he was pretty buzzed up and driving home, he could not operate the vehicle properly on the drive home, he decided to pull into some residential neighborhood and try to figure out what was wrong with the car, so he pulled into someones driveway to back out, he could not get the car all the way onto the street. The cops were called by a neighbor, the cops show up, my friend is super nice and compliant, tells the officers he can not start the vehicle and he thinks it was malfunctioning. The office has him do a field test (following the light), he passed that with flying colors and told the officer he had 3 drinks at a near by friends place. The officer backs the car onto the side of the road, parks his car and then drives him to the station. Once at the station he waited and the front office lady called him a taxi, the taxi drove him home. The next morning he could barely remember any of it. He had someone help him find the car. In the morning he still had his keys, his license, and everything else. He called the police station looking for the car, the officer did NOT report anything to anyone. So, to save the officers ass, my friend just up and walked around neighborhoods until he found the car. No ticket (even though he did deserve one) and he was driving the next day. Now I do congratulate him because this event change his life, not only did he stop drinking and driving, but it helped his emotional problems (why he drank in the first place).
It depends on the state. It's a misdemeanor in most states if it's a vanilla DUI.
Usually, you pay fines, get a restricted license after a certain period of time and end up with a record if you plead guilty. A good DUI lawyer runs about 6K and they can sometimes plead it down to reckless.
There's also the shame and embarrassment. I had many friends get DUI's who were otherwise stellar individuals and they had to face their peers.
I've always heard that it hurts your employment chances but I haven't seen that personally. I know lots of people with high paying management jobs that have the scarlet letter. Most companies don't care about one DUI. I mean, the last president/VP of the US had DUIs.
Reading up on the above responses, DUI gets a stiff penalty, so why don't people who text and drive also get such punishments? In my experience texting and driving is a far more common danger on the road. I have been almost hit by people who are on the phone, not by drunk people.
Reading up on the above responses, DUI gets a stiff penalty, so why don't people who text and drive also get such punishments? In my experience texting and driving is a far more common danger on the road. I have been almost hit by people who are on the phone, not by drunk people.
Texting and driving doesn't have a huge lobbyist (MADD) behind it (semi-srs).
Texting and driving doesn't have a huge lobbyist (MADD) behind it (semi-srs).
Hopefully mothers won't need to start a MADD for texting. Illinois just made texting while driving illegal, many states will probably follow. I personally don't do it.
In FL, you go to jail for the night, usually released on your own recognizance (as long as no one was injured/killed and your first DUI). If you blow then you can apply for a hardship license, no blow and you lose your license for 1 yr whether you win or lose the case.
Higher insurance costs (life and auto for sure), criminal record for life and a lot of hassle!
Where I live have major problems with DWIs so the mayor created a task force to do one thing, get the drunks off the streets. The first week had accounted in the high hundreds to over a thousand or so. That's a lot of boozers. The following weeks showed similar numbers. They were busy as heck.
I think they're still going as it is reported on the local papers online and I haven't been reading it lately.
A friend had several DWIs where it got to a year stay in jail. Once he's out he's at it again and busted again. 6 years, this time in the pen. After that he never touched a drop.
Not in any of the instances I have seen. If you are compliant usually you will end up in your own bed at the end of the night/day after being processed.
I need to move here.
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