Drunk Driving

You'd think driving drunk into a crowd of people would result in a rather serious punishment. You'd most likely be wrong.

A 25-year-old man has been arrested on multiple charges after he drove is truck into a crowd of people awaiting the Krewe of Endymion parade on Saturday night.

Garrett Martin was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and resisting an officer.

Lafayette police will shut down the intersection of Ambassador Caffery Parkway at Dulles Drive beginning at 1 p.m. this afternoon to allow for the traffic investigation into a drunk driving crash that killed one person at that intersection earlier this week.

One person was killed in a drunk driving crash on Ambassador Caffery Parkway near Dulles Drive Tuesday evening.

Kayla Ames consented to breathalyzer test, and she blew a .178 on the breathalyzer test.

The Louisiana Highway Safety Commission is coordinating the efforts.

Neither man was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash.

A 22-year-old Scott man is in the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center on drunk driving charges following an early morning crash.

In their ongoing effort to reduce impaired driving, Lafayette Police will conduct a sobriety checkpoint somewhere within the city limits Saturday night into early Sunday morning.

Lafayette Parish District Attorney Mike Harson says Robertson's truck plowed into a vehicle driven by Travis Baker around 1:45 a.m. March 15, 2013.

Louisiana State Police Troop I spokesperson Trooper Hammons encouraged anyone drinking alcohol to do the responsible thing and designate a driver so that they were not endangering the lives of themselves or others.

Police say the victims were unrestrained and alcohol was a factor.

Go home, you're drunk!  Well, that's what Ascension Christian High School told one of its teachers yesterday.

Dennis Lalime is going to have a tough time showing his (unmade-up face) around town.

Authorities said Tyson Dupuis was drunk when he crashed into a car driven by 18-year-old Michelle Romero in August of 2011.

In a statement released to members of the press, officials with the Louisiana State Police have provided an update on the case of 18-year Kennedy Renee Isaac of Elton.

An NTSB study suggested dropping the blood alcohol content level could cut down the nationwide number of drunk driving deaths by as much as 10,000.

Lohse was set to be tried on charges of felon on possession of a firearms. He likely would have faced the charges of vehicular homicide later in the week.

In a more than eleven minute YouTube video published Sunday under the author John Smith, which depicts Wade Lohse somewhere in the woods, apologized for the accident, but he called into question the results of the crash investigation, accusing authorities of performing their calculations incorrectly.