DUI

Citing thousands of preventable deaths and injuries each year in drunk driving accidents due to excessive alcohol consumption, New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio banned alcohol advertising on city property in April. The ban, which applies to bus shelters, newsstands, Wi-Fi kiosks and recycling kiosks, will take effect as existing advertising contracts expire. City […]

Underage drinking in New York is a major problem, with as many as 847,000 underage customers drinking in the state every single year. In fact, in a 2009 study of New York students in grades 9-12, the results indicated that: 71.1 percent of teens surveyed had consumed at least one alcoholic drink during their lifetime. […]

Statistics show that the drunk driving problem in New York and the United States remains a serious problem that potentially touches any one of us. The most recent statistics indicate that there were 10,511 traffic fatalities in the U.S. that involved an alcohol-impaired driver in 2018. That equates to more than 28 drunk driving deaths per day, […]