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11.02.2009 9:01 pm

Friends don’t let friends drive drunk. The legal system does.

In Sunday’s third installment of a Post-Dispatch series on loopholes in Missouri’s drunk driving laws, we learned that the state law that mandates a one year-suspension of driving privileges for drivers who refuse to take a breathalyzer test often is a joke.

In…

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10.13.2009 9:03 pm

DWI? Ho-hum.

The more you learn about how drunk driving laws are enforced — or more often, not enforced — in the St. Louis area, the more obvious it becomes why drunk driving remains so prevalent.

Unless a drunk driver runs into someone or…

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09.18.2009 9:00 pm

Drinking, driving and dropping the ball

In 2005, the Missouri Legislature dramatically strengthened penalties for driving while intoxicated. That the Legislature did so in a bill aimed at clarifying laws about nude dancing speaks only to its tortuous methods, not its intent.

The intent of the new DWI…

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03.13.2009 9:03 pm

Drying out drunk drivers

Arnold "Jay" Jackson III and Tawanda L. Jackson were killed by a drunk driver on Illinois Route 255. Dawn Majors | Post-Dispatch

Arnold "Jay" Jackson III and Tawanda L. Jackson were killed by a drunk driver on Illinois Route 255. Dawn Majors | Post-Dispatch

The St. Louis community was rocked by two shockingly similar car crashes last month. The crashes killed five people, destroyed…

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