Drivers take to the roads drunk phillyBurbs.com
DUI is the most charged crime in Bucks County. Across the state, a record for DUI arrests was set last year.
For one Lower Bucks resident, an evening spent watching a Phillies playoff game didn't seem like an equation for DUI.
Ten beers - cans of watery "Natty" Natural Lights - over several hours. A stomach full of pizza and wings. Water. A two-hour moratorium on beer before he turned the motor.
But there he was on the side of I-95 in Bensalem in October, being handcuffed by state police.
"I figured I was above 0.08 (the legal limit for blood alcohol content)," said the 22-year-old, who asked that his name be withheld. "But at the same time, I don't think that was an indicator of my control of my abilities."
His was one of nearly 17,000 DUI arrests - a record number - made by state police across Pennsylvania last year.
That statistic, announced this month, and the recent DUI arrests of two elected officials in Yardley and Newtown Township are just more reminders of drunken driving's prevalence.
