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Female Drunk Driving On The Rise
San Diego, CA (NewsBahn) – San Diego DUI attorneys are noticing a sharp rise in the number of women seeking legal representation for DUI arrests throughout San Diego County.
Lawrence Taylor, known as “The Dean of DUI Attorneys” and author of the book Drunk Driving Defense, confirms the statistics law experts are noticing. Taylor is the principal lawyer for a nationally recognized firm of California DUI defense attorneys.
“Each San Diego DUI attorney in our firm has observed a steadily rising percentage of female San Diego drunk driving clients in recent years,” Taylor said in a statement.
The FBI also recently released evidence of alcohol related driving arrests. Statistics from 1998-2007 indicate an increase of nearly 29 percent for women driving under the influence of alcohol. What’s interesting to note is for the same time period the instance of men driving under the influence decreased 7.5 percent.
Further confirmation comes from a recent DUI fatality study by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The agency looked at the number of female drunk drivers involved in fatal crashes from 2007 to 2008 and found that the female DUI rate increased or remained flat in 15 states, compared to 13 states for male DUI involved fatalities. This is noteworthy, since the overall number of DUI cases decreased 9 percent nationwide. About 2,000 fatalities a year now involve a female driver arrested for DUI.
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