Colorado DUI Drunk Driving Defense

Colorado DUI Drunk Driving Defense

Denver-Boulder Metro DUI Drunk Driving Defense

Denver-Boulder Metro and beyond. Boulder, Denver, Larimer, Weld, Gilpin, Clear Creek, Arapahoe, Adams, Broomfield, Jefferson and Summit Counties

Colorado Springs DUI Drunk Driving Defense

El Paso and surrounding counties.

Trinidad DUI Drunk Driving Defense

Bent, Crowley, Huerfano, Las Animas, Otero and Pueblo counties.

Pagosa Springs DUI Drunk Driving Defense

Alamosa, Archuletta, Conejos, Costilla, Delta, Dolores, Gunnison, Hinsdale, La Platta, Mesa, Mineral, Montezuma, Montrose, Ouray, Pitkin, Rio Grande, Saguache, San Juan and San Miguel Counties.

Wikipedia: Driving under the influence

Driving under the influence of alcohol, drunk driving, or drink-driving, is the act of operating a motor vehicle (and sometimes a bicycle or similar human-powered vehicle) after having consumed alcohol (ethanol) or other drugs, to the degree that mental and motor skills are impaired. In addition to driving under the influence of alcohol and driving under the influence of other drugs, a third "DUI" offense consists of driving under the combined influence of alcohol and other drugs. The drugs causing or contributing to the impairment need not be illegal, but can consist of lawfully prescribed or over-the-counter medication. Anti-drunk-driving advertising campaigns have aimed to raise awareness of the legal situation and the dangers of driving while intoxicated. Drunk-driving is responsible for a large number of deaths, injuries, damage and accidents every year.

NHTSA Field Sobriety Tests

During the late 1960s and early 1970s more than 50,000 people lost their lives each year on our nation's public roads; more than half of the fatalities involved an alcohol-impaired driver. Traffic safety has improved considerably since that time: the annual death toll has declined to about 40,000, even though the numbers of drivers, vehicles, and miles driven all have greatly increased. When miles traveled are considered, the likelihood of being killed in traffic in 1966 was more than three times what it is today.

Research sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has contributed to the improved condition, in part, by providing law enforcement officers with useful and scientifically valid information and training materials to assist in the enforcement of drinking and driving laws. Beginning in 1975, NHTSA sponsored research that led to the development of a Driving While Impaired (DWI)1 detection guide that listed 20 driving cues and the probabilities that a driver exhibiting a cue would have a BAC of at least 0.10 percent (Harris et al., 1980; Harris, 1980). A similar study was conducted more recently that identified 24 driving cues that are predictive of DWI at the 0.08 level (Stuster, 1997); the latter study also identified ten post-stop cues with probabilities of DWI of at least 90 percent. NHTSA previously sponsored research that led to the development of a motorcycle DWI detection guide and training program (Stuster, 1993). NHTSA's DWI training materials, based on the results of these studies, have exposed the current generation of law enforcement officers in the U.S. to information critical to DWI enforcement by providing a systematic, scientifically valid, and defensible approach to on-the-road DWI detection.