January 1, 2010

• Three people were killed in an alcohol-related head-on collision on Highway 46 in Kern County, CA (Bakersfield Now).

A 21-year-old pregnant Lemon Grove woman who had pulled over to help a friend change a flat tire was killed when she was struck by a speeding drunk driver on Interstate 805 in San Diego County, CA (10 News).

January 10, 2010

• A 12-year-old Hesperia boy riding a skateboard near Lime Street and E Street was struck by a 39-year-old drunk driver and suffered major head trauma and a possible compound fracture of one of his legs in San Bernardino County, CA (Victorville Daily Press).

January 17, 2010

An up-and-coming Miami musician  was with vehicular homicide, DUI manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident after he struck and killed a 44-year-old South Miami cyclist near Key Biscayne in Miami-Dade County, FL (NBC Miami).

February 2, 2010

• A local firefighter suspected of driving under the influence caused an accident in Bakersfield that killed a passenger in another vehicle at Panama Lane and Ashe Road in Kern County, CA (KGET News).

February 6, 2010

The driver of a Yellow Cab died when he was struck by struck by a drunk driver who ran a red light at the intersection of Fireweed Lane and Arctic Boulevard in Anchorage, AK. Officers at the scene found an empty beer can, a 40-ounce malt liquor bottle and an empty liquor bottle in the driver's vehicle (Anchorage Daily News).

February 14, 2010

• A 20-year-old Santa Ana woman who was a passenger in a 2008 Toyota Corolla died when a 2008 Toyota Tundra ran a red light and struck the vehicle she was riding in at the intersection of Sunflower Avenue and Sakioka Drive in Costa Mesa in Orange County, CA (OC Register).

February 19, 2010

• A passenger was ejected and killed in a solo-vehicle SUV rollover accident on Lerdo Highway caused by a driver who was later arrested for being under the influence of alcohol in Kern County, CA (Bakersfield Now).

February 21, 2010

Five people suffered moderate to major injuries in a wrong way head-on crash on Highway 221 caused by a drunk driver in Napa County, CA.

February 23, 2010

17-year-old Waikoloa girl was killed when the taxi she was riding in, driven by her mother, was struck by a vehicle traveling in the wrong direction by a drunk driver on Queen Kaahumanu Highway in North Kona, HI (Hawaii News Now).

February 26, 2010

A 4-year-old child died and a 2-year-old child was injured a drunk driver plowed into their car that was stopped at an intersection near I-240 and Western in Oklahoma County, OK (News Channel 4).

March 6, 2010

A 13-year-old boy died after he was struck by a suspected drunk driver FM 1485 and Kidd Cemetery Road in southeast Montgomery County, TX (KHOU News).

March 8, 2010

A San Diego County man suffered critical injuries when a drunk driver failed to stop at a posted stop sign and struck his Dodge Caravan at the intersection of Sunset Road and Twentynine Palms Highway in San Bernardino County, CA (Hi-Desert Star).

March 19, 2010

• A 36-year-old motorcyclist died when the drunk driver of a Volvo pulled into his path on Florida Drive at Zoo place in San Diego County (10 News).

April 1, 2010

• A 45-year-old Fallbrook man suffered major injuries, including a broken left femur, when a suspected drunk driver hit his vehicle head-on on South Mission Road near Via Monserate in San Diego County, CA (The Village News).

April 4, 2010

• A 32-year-old Antioch woman who was a passenger in a vehicle driven by a suspected drunk driver was hospitalized in critical condition after the vehicle crossed a sidewalk and some landscaping before striking a large concrete pillar and bursting into flames in Contra Costa County, CA (KTVU News).

April 7, 2010

• A 35-year-old Richmond man walking home from a Bible Study Class was struck and killed by a drunk driver on Church Lane in Contra Costa County, CA (San Francisco Chronicle).

• A 41-year-old Orangevale man was killed in a head-on collision on Highway 50 caused by a 55-year-old Placerville woman under the influence of alcohol and going the wrong way on the Highway 50 in El Dorado County, CA (News 10).

April 9, 2010

• An 11-year-old Downey girl died and her 10-year-old brother was injured in a rollover accident on Interstate 40 when her mother, who according to CHP reports was under the influence of alcohol, lost control of the vehicle they were riding in near Fort Cady Road in Newberry Springs in San Bernardino County, CA (Desert Dispatch).

April 12, 2010

• A 17-year-old girl and a two-year-old child suffered catastrophic injuries when they were struck by a driver suspected to be under the influence of marijuana and other drugs at the corner of El Canto Road and Santoro Drive in Riverside County, CA (KESQ News).

April 23, 2010

• A 46-year-old Santa Ana man was killed instantly in a head-on collision on Highway 138 near the Cajon Pass when a suspected drunk driver being pursued by the CHP collided with his Camaro in Phelan, in San Bernardino County, CA (Victorville Daily Press).

May 11, 2010

• A 45-year-old Livermore man died after a suspected drunk driver veered into his pickup truck on southbound Interstate 680 near the Andrade Road Exit in Alameda County, CA (Mercury News).

May 14, 2010

• A two-year-old girl was taken to the hospital after a head-on collision caused by a suspected 31-year-old woman driving under the influence on Highway 174 (Colfax Hwy) in Grass Valley, near Partridge Road in Nevada County, CA (The Union). 

• A six-year-old girl injured after a drunk driver plowed his Jeep Wrangler into the bedroom of her home in Downey, CA.

May 16, 2010

• A 12-year-old girl and her 21-year-old cousin were killed, and her brother and mother were seriously injured in Muscoy when the driver of a 1998 pickup truck ran a stop sign and broadsided their vehicle at North Macy Street and Mesa in San Bernardino County, CA (Press-Enterprise).

May 26, 2010

• Two passengers in a Honda died in an intersection crash caused by a suspected drunk driver at the intersection of Avenue 232 and Road 36 in Tulare County, CA.

May 29, 2010

• A motorcyclist suffered bone fractures and other serious injuries when a woman under the influence of methamphetamine ran a red light and struck him at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Main Street in San Diego County, CA. 

• Four people, including a 12-year-old boy, were airlifted to hospitals after a 46-year-old Clearlake man under the influence of alcohol caused a head-on collision on Highway 53 near Anderson Ranch Parkway in Lake County, CA (Lake County News).

June 2, 2010

• A Bakersfield woman died and two other people were injured, including a baby, when a 23-year-old San Diego County man ran a stop sign and broadsided their vehicle at the intersection of Mt. Vernon Avenue and Kentucky Street in Kern County, CA (Turnto23 News).

June 13, 2010

• A 62-year-old Rancho Cucamonga resident died at San Antonio Community Hospital after a head-on collision in Rancho Cucamonga caused by a 23-year-old drunk driver on Church Street near Elm Avenue in San Bernardino County, CA (Rancho Cucamonga Police).

• A Santa Maria police officer suffered head injuries after a drunk driver ran a stop sign  and struck her vehicle at Morrison Street and Pine Street in Santa Barbara County, CA (KEYT News).

June 25, 2010

 A 43-year-old man was arrested for drunken driving after a single vehicle crash in Houma, Louisiana killed his 4-year-old son and seriously injured his two other sons and wife in Terrebonne Parish, LA. A breath test determined the driver had a .159 percent blood-alcohol concentration, nearly twice the legal limit (Houma Today).

A passenger in a car died when a 29-year-old Staten Island woman driving drunk hit a guardrail and then a tree in the Bronx, NY (SILive).

June 26, 2010

An 11-year-old boy died the day after he was struck by a 30-year-old Louisville woman suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol while riding his bicycle on Shenendoah Drive in Jefferson County, KY (Wave 3 News).

June 27, 2010

• A 70-year-old Petaluma woman was injured after a 31-year-old Santa Rosa man driving under the influence crashed into her vehicle at the intersection of Petaluma Hill Road and Valley House Drive in Sonoma County, CA (Press Democrat). 

June 30, 2010

A 29-year-old Nashville man died June 30th when a drunk driver drove his Chevy Tahoe into his vehicle at the intersection of West Main Street and Center Point Road in Sumner County, TN (Henderson Star News).

July 1, 2010

• A 21-year-old man died and two other people were seriously injured when a 35-year-old Stockton woman under the influence of alcohol drove the wrong way on Highway 99 in Manteca in San Joaquin County, CA (Manteca Bulletin).  

• Three people were injured, including a baby, in a suspected alcohol related accident on Ramon Road at Paseo Dorotea, near the Palm Springs International Airport in Riverside County, CA (KPSP News).

• A passenger suffered major injuries in a crash caused by a suspected drunken driver near South Meadowbrook Drive and Paradise Valley Road in San Diego County, CA (SanDiego 6).

July 2, 2010

• Three people were seriously injured after a suspected drunk driver ran a red light at the intersection of Park Village Road and Ragweed Street in Rancho Penasquitos in San Diego County, CA (Union Tribune).

• A 30-year-old  man who was a passenger in a Ford Focus suffered serious injuries when the drunk driver of the vehicle he was riding in rear-ended a tractor trailer truck near Leucadia Boulevard in Encinitas in San Diego County, CA (NC Times).

• A female passenger on a motorcycle  was taken to San Francisco General Hospital with serious injuries and a possible brain injury after the suspected drunk driver of the motorcycle she was riding crashed near the Sharp Park Golf Course on Francisco Boulevard in San Mateo County, CA (CBS 5 News).

July 7, 2010

• Four teens were injured, three very seriously, in a SUV rollover accident  on Heritage Place in Folsom, caused by a 17-year-old, unlicensed driver under the influence of alcohol in Sacramento County, CA. 

July 11, 2010

• A 4-year-old Gilroy boy died after a drunk driver going home from a heavy metal concert struck his family's pickup truck on Highway 101 in Santa Clara County (Morgan Hill Times).

An Iowa man died and several others were injured in a three-vehicle collision caused by a drunk driver on Highway 54 in Audrain County, MO (The People's Tribune).

July 14, 2010

• A 15-year-old girl was injured and airlifted to a hospital after a boating accident in Discovery Bay in Contra Costa County, CA; her mother was arrested for boating under the influence (KTVU).

 

• A 50-year-old Crescent City man who was a passenger on a vintage 1951 Harley Davidson suffered moderatei injuries after the suspected drunk driver of the motorcycle lost control and crashed on U.S. Highway 199 in Del Norte County, CA (The Daily Triplicate).

July 15, 2010

A bicyclist suffered serious injuries when he was struck by the wreckage of a two-vehicle collision caused by a drunk driver at the intersection of Brundage Lane and Oak Street in Kern County, CA (Turnto23 News).

A 2-year-old boy died when his 26-year-old suspected drunk father ran off the road on State Route 788 in Washington County, VA (KnoxNews).

July 17, 2010

• A drunk driver in a pickup truck ran over and killed a 55-year-old Walnut Creek woman walking on Treat Boulevard near Bancroft Road in Contra Costa County, CA. Witnesses reported the  drunk driver was too drunk to even stand up after the accident (San Francisco Chronicle).

July 18, 2010

• Two Cloverdale Women were killed in crash caused by suspected drunk driver on Geyseville Avenue in Sonoma County, CA (Press Democrat).

 

• A 51-year-old Reseda woman was killed, and her grandson suffered serious injuries when they were hit by a 22-year-old suspected drunk driver outside of her home at Strathern Street and Wilbur Avenue in Los Angeles County, CA (Daily Breeze). 

July 20, 2010

A Price man died when a suspected drunk driver crossed into oncoming traffic and struck his motorcycle head-on on Route 10 in Emery County, UT (Deseret News).

July 21, 2010

• Four people were injured in a head-on collision on Highway 89 south of Rampart caused by a 34-year-old Squaw Valley Man suspected of driving under the influence in Nevada County, CA (Sierra Sun). 

 

• A 20-year-old Willits woman who was a passenger in a 2003 Honda Civic suffered a broken back, broken pelvis, broken nose and other injuries when the drunk driver of the vehicle she was riding in flew off the road and overturned multiple times down an embankment on Highway 101 in Mendocino County, CA (Ukiah Daily Journal).

July 23, 2010

• A 4-year-old boy was killed when drunk driver ran a stop sign at intersection of Avenue 440 and Road 120 on July 23, 2010 in Tulare County, CA (Fresno Bee). 

July 24, 2010

• A 26-year-old Rancho Cucamonga woman who was a passenger in a Porsche died when the 24-year-old man driver of the vehicle she was riding in struck a tree on Bouquet Canyon Road in Los Angeles County, CA (Santa Clarita Signal).

Two people on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle were killed when their motorcycle was rear-ended by a drunk driver on Minnesota Highway 55 in Meeker County, MN. The 30 year-old suspected drunk driver's preliminary breath test showed an alcohol concentration of 0.188 (Daily Globe).  

July 26, 2010

A 28-year-old suspected drunk driver rear-ended a truck at a high rate of speed on southbound Interstate 45 (Gulf Freeway) in Houston, TX, killing two people (Houston Chronicle). 

A 61-year-old woman was critically injured when she was struck by a drunk driver while crossing Gull Road near Humphrey Street in Kalamazoo County, MI (Wood TV).  

July 27, 2010

An eight-year-old boy died when his suspected drunk father drove more than 120 mph, and sheared his Lexus in half on a guardrail on Highway 1 in Monterey County, CA (KION News).

July 31, 2010

A 58-year-old Orlando, FL man was killed along with his three sons, ages 19, 24, and 28, when the vehicle they were in was struck by a 20-year-old drunk driver who ran a red light at a high rate of speed in Pinellas County, FL (Miami Herald).

A passenger in an SUV died after the 24-year-old suspected drunk driver of the vehicle crashed on Richgrove Drive in Tulare County, CA (ABC30).