Crash on north Perimeter Highway west of Highway 6
Friday, February 8th, 2013RCMP were called to the scene of a two-vehicle crash on the north Perimeter Highway on Friday morning.
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Teen accused of DWI after crash on Highway 33 near Pitt County line
Tuesday, January 1st, 2013A young man is facing drunk driving charges after allegedly being in a car accident on Highway 13 near the Beaufort-Pitt County line over the weekend. Police believe the teen was heading east on Highway 33 when he lost control of his car. Authorities say that the car hit a road sign, careened into a ditch and slammed into a light pole, knocking it down.
The North Carolina Highway Patrol says that the teen called his family after the wreck. But troopers say the teen fled the area on foot. Troopers apparently responded to the scene of the accident and apparently waited for the teen’s family to arrive. Authorities say that the troopers commanded the family members to go find the teen.
The Highway Patrol says that the teen’s family brought him to the scene of the accident. At that point, the 17-year-old was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving, leaving the scene of an accident and failing to maintain lane control.
It is not clear in the media what level of drunk driving charges the young man faces after the alleged incident. Most people know that the legal limit to drive in North Carolina is set at 0.08 percent blood alcohol concentration. That is what is known as the per se level of impairment, where the law-unfortunately-assumes impairment for all drivers. However, law enforcement and prosecutors can also bring charges based upon the observations of officers in a normal DWI case, if the officers believe that the driver was impaired while driving.
But for underage drivers–those who are under the age of 21–North Carolina law allows authorities to pursue underage DUI charges based upon any evidence of consumption. A teen or 20-year-old driver can face underage drinking and driving charges when well below the general legal limit of 0.08 percent BAC.
Source: WITN, “Teen Flees Scene Of Wreck, Charged With DWI,” Dec. 17, 2012
North Carolina man faces DWI charges after fatal Highway 213 crash
Friday, November 30th, 2012Law enforcement continues to investigate a fatal car accident that occurred on Highway 213 in Marshall, North Carolina September 13. However, police believe that a 41-year-old man was driving while impaired when the accident occurred.
A North Carolina State Highway Patrol trooper claims in court documents filed November 9 that the man smelled of alcohol after the fatal crash. The trooper also claims that the surviving driver of the accident had blood shot eyes and was slurring his speech after sustaining injuries in the wreck.
Police say that the man was driving a Ford Mustang on Highway 213 that collided with a Ford Escort at the intersection between the highway and Silver Mill Road. The Mustang collided with the Escort as a woman pulled into the intersection from Silver Mill, according to the Citizen-Times.
The 30-year-old woman driving the Escort was killed in the accident. The man driving the Mustang and his 26-year-old passenger suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the wreck and were taken to an area hospital. Police believe the speed of the Mustang may have contributed to the cause of the crash.
Law enforcement says that the man driving the Mustang refused to submit to a chemical test. Agents from the North Carolina Division of Alcohol Law Enforcement reportedly visited an establishment in Marshall where authorities believe the man driving the Mustang had been before the fatal crash, although details about that investigation are sketchy, according to the Citizen-Times.
Authorities say that testing is being conducted on blood work related to the investigation. Additional charges may be filed pending the outcome of that analysis. Law enforcement continues to investigate other aspects of the crash.
Source: Citizen-Times, “Lunsford faces DWI charge,” Melissa Dean, Nov. 26, 2012
Would You Want This Cop Stopping You on the Highway?
Wednesday, August 8th, 2012If only this cop was the rare exception to the norm. What makes it newsworthy is that the prosecutors finally did something about this one….
Transferred for Bad DUI Arrests, Pinellas Deputy Fighting to Get Old Job Back
Largo, FL. July 30 – Pinellas County sheriff’s deputy John Hubbard is fighting to get his old job back after being transferred from patrol to bailiff last year.
That happened after an internal affairs investigation determined Hubbard’s DUI investigations "lacked important/sufficient information to prosecute the cases."
"Upon review of the COBAN videos relating to several of your DUI cases, you were found to be demeaning and abrasive towards citizens," Hubbard was told in a disciplinary memo. "… During meetings with Assistant State Attorneys, you made inappropriate and unprofessional comments."
Hubbard is appealing those findings and has a hearing scheduled for Aug. 9. He told Bay News 9 there are many reasons why he wants to get back to "keeping the streets safe."
“One, I’m very effective there, and two, I make a lot more money,” Hubbard said. “I had a take-home car, which was taken from me. I made 10 percent differential and I made a lot of overtime.”
According to an inter-office disciplinary memo, Hubbard was also suspended for 160 hours and had to undergo a fitness-for-duty evaluation.
Internal affairs officials investigated 38 arrests deputy Hubbard made between January 2010 and June 2011, all but one of which was for DUI. In 24 of those cases, the investigation found, the DUI charge was either dropped or reduced because either the suspect’s blood-alcohol content was barely at or under the legal limit of .08 or the driver refused the tests after interacting with Hubbard…
According to the report, internal affairs began investigating Hubbard when the assistant state attorney in charge of misdemeanors at the time, Holly Grissinger, called Lt. Glenn Luben at the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office and notified him of a list of cases that were "either refusals or a low blow."…
Grissinger said prosecutors were not comfortable playing Hubbard’s videos for a jury because of Hubbard’s demeanor, according to the deposition.
"I felt that if those videos were broadcast, if the public saw those videos, that they would have a huge problem with his behavior and how he treated the people during a criminal investigation, whether they should have been arrested or not," she said…
Internal affairs investigators interviewed a couple more assistant state attorneys who complained about Hubbard.
According to the report, while assistant state attorney Dyana Sisti and Hubbard were watching a video together of a woman he arrested for DUI, the deputy said, “Yeah, yeah, shake your (expletive) honey,” as the woman stood in front of the cruiser…
According to the report, assistant state attorney Tony Carlow told investigators Hubbard told him he relies solely on the HGN test to determine sobriety in all his DUI investigations. "He does not care about the outcome of the field sobriety exercises," Carlow is quoted as saying…
During the investigated period, the report found, Hubbard arrested six drivers for DUI whose blood-alcohol content was under .08 and urine tests results for drugs came back clean. On the videos, Hubbard can be seen telling three of those drivers he believes they’re impaired based on their eyes.
"Well, the HGN that I checked your eyes … you miserably failed that," Hubbard said to one of those drivers.
According to the report, DUI expert Capt. Teresa Dioquino and Carlow both said Hubbard was doing the HGN test wrong.
“Deputy Hubbard is moving his pen from side to side too quickly to do the test properly,” Carlow said…
“I do feel like I do know what I’m doing,” Hubbard said. “I can check your eyes, a lot of people’s eyes, and I can tell … if it’s alcohol only and what their breath result will be.”
Dioquino, however, doesn’t agree.
"The training deficiencies are quite evident," she said…
This is the second time Hubbard has been demoted in his 24-year career with the sheriff’s office. According to reports, Hubbard was demoted from sergeant to patrol deputy in 2009 after it was determined he created a hostile work environment…
Sounds like this cop creates a hostile investigating environment, too.
Manitoba Highway sights
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008Sights along Highway 75