The following is a guest post by attorney Rick Console at Console & Hollawell P.C. As states across the country continue to legalize marijuana for medical purposes, law officials struggle to create rules to deal with legally medicated drivers. Detecting impairment behind the wheel is particularly important for car accident attorneys in the 16 states where [...]

As Nestor E. Arellano writes for ITBusiness.ca: The idea of using a vehicle-interlock system that disables an automobile when sensors detect an inebriated driver has been around for some years now. One of the major hurdles though is that alcohol sensors can be fooled. For instance, one person can take the sobriety test and another [...]

A proposed federal transportation bill includes a measure to fund the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) alcohol detector program with $24 million over two years, reports Joseph B. White in Wednesday’s Wall Street Journal blog, Eyes on the Road. The funding would make it possible for the NHTSA to include prototypes of two types of [...]

The Colorado Senate is considering a new bill that would set a threshold level of THC in drivers’ bodies as the standard for determining intoxication. THC is the psychoactive chemical in marijuana that needs to be present in a person’s blood before the person is guilty of driving under the influence of drugs (DUID). The [...]

The Colorado Department of Transportation’s (CDOT’s) “Heat Is On DUI” crackdown runs again on St. Patrick’s Day weekend, Friday, March 16, through Monday, March 19. The CDOT says, “With St. Patrick’s Day on a Saturday this year, expect even tougher DUI enforcement.” Last year, the Colorado State Patrol and statewide law enforcement agencies arrested 682 [...]

About one-fourth of train operators and pilots say their job performance is affected by sleepiness at least once a week (as compared with about one in six non-transportation workers), according to The National Sleep Foundation’s (NSF) 2012 Sleep in America® poll. This is the first poll to ask pilots; train operators; and truck, bus, taxi, [...]

A new study has found that driving within three hours of smoking marijuana doubles the risk of serious car accidents, especially those resulting in fatalities. The study was done at Canada’s Dalhousie University and was published on Thursday in the British Medical Journal. Researchers came to their conclusions after examining the results of nine studies [...]

Broncos running back Knowshon Moreno has been charged with driving while drunk, careless driving, and failing to have insurance, after being pulled over in south Denver, and is scheduled to be arraigned on March 2. According to an Associated Press article in USA TODAY, Denver police Lt. Matthew Murray confirmed that Moreno was pulled over [...]

“Fans Don’t Let Fans Drive Drunk” is the Superbowl Sunday-related safety message being shared with the public by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and allied agencies. The DOT and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Region 7 Office — with support from the National Football League (NFL) and Techniques for Effective Alcohol Management [...]

Congress is showing interest in a House transportation bill that would get more states to require convicted drunk drivers to test their blood alcohol level before starting their cars. Fifteen states currently require use of ignition interlock devices (IID) by anyone convicted of drunk driving. The bill was introduced on Tuesday by Transportation and Infrastructure [...]