Many of the car accident victims that the attorneys at Hoffman, Sternberg & Karpf, LLC. represent were injured by drunk or impaired drivers. DUI accidents can sometimes be horrific and cause catastrophic injuries including wrongful death.
To give the scope of the amount of DUI drivers on the roads these days, consider the report from the Pennsylvania State Police as detailed in an article from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. In 2015, the State Police made 18,801 DUI arrests which was a significant increase from 2014. And consider the fact that this is just the State Police arrests; this report does not include arrests by local police.
Impaired driving is a major problem on the roads of Pennsylvania as well as Bucks County and throughout the United States. Law enforcement are becoming better at stopping impaired drivers, thus the increase in arrests.
As the report and article indicates, one of the causes of impairment that has increased is due to drivers taking drugs not alcohol. The drug impairment DUI arrests increased 23 percent year over year.
If you have injured by a drunk or impaired driver, please call immediately the lawyers at Hoffman, Sternberg & Karpf, LLC., at (215) 953-8955.
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