DWI – One of America’s Deadliest Crimes

One taxi driver in Asian country acknowledges that he can drive well while intoxicated, otherwise he could not do it smoothly. And true to his word, he could drive very smoothly when drunk, but his performance is very poor when normal. Does this experience show that driving while intoxicated is worth imitating? While this issue is true to some others, drunk driving is “one of America’s deadliest crimes,” said acting Secretary of Transportation Mario Cino. Of all US traffic deaths during 2005, 39 percent involved alcohol. Because of this fact, in Houston, Texas, enforcement agencies are very strict on suspected drunk drivers. If you are pulled over by a police officer or other law enforcement officer and found by breath or your blood test show of a blood concentration (BAC) of .08% threshold, you will be charged with DWI. This law regarding drunk driving sees to it the elimination of possible danger of an impaired driver on the road which is considered to be one of the “deadliest crimes”. And ones you have been charged, it would be hard to defend your own especially so if you really are not a habitual drunk driver and you have been apprehended incidentally. If this is the case, there are Houston DWI lawyers to the rescue in the Houston area. These lawyers are expert in this field and they are serving clients throughout Harris County, Fort Bend County, Montgomery County and Galveston County, Texas.

Earthquake Devastates Chile

Another powerful  earthquake struck another country this time, though it is in Chile. A month after Haiti experience the same fate that left many lives killed and many building and houses destroyed.

The tremor with a magnitude of 8.8 flattened Chile, claiming at least 214 people, bamboozled buildings and triggered a tsunami.

According to Chilean President Michele Bachelet said that 1.5 million people was affected by the quake and about half a million homes were badly damaged.

Telephone and power lines were paralyzed, while several building fell like house of cards literally even as a television image clip showed cars being plastered by a collapsed multi-storey parking garage.

Chile experienced massive earthquake before. The 9.5 magnitue earthquake, in 1960 wreaked havoc on Valdivia, taking 1,655 lives and triggered a powerful tsunami which battered Eastern Islands which many miles away and reached as far as Hawaii, Japan and the Philippines.