Articles Tagged: Drunken driving

An off-duty Johnson County sheriff’s deputy was arrested Saturday on a charge of operating while under the influence after another deputy pulled him over.

A Cedar Rapids woman was charged with an OWI this week after a vehicle crashed into the Iowa River on the University of Iowa campus.

An Anamosa man was sentenced to 25 years in prison for causing a fatal crash in February 2023 in Springville. He was intoxicated and crashed into a vehicle driven by a Springville man, who was only about a mile from his home.

The man accused of causing the 2016 drunk driving crash that killed Council Bluffs resident Sarah Root was extradited to the United States on Friday.

A judge resets a trial that was set to start next week in a dispute over a prosecution report. A Cedar Rapids woman is accused of being drunk and crashing head-on into a motorcycle in October 2023, killing the cyclist.

A Cedar Rapids man who was intoxicated when he drove off an embankment and crashed into a motorcyclist on Interstate 380, killing him, was found guilty Monday by a Linn County jury of vehicular homicide and other charges.

The start of a new year also means the start of new laws in Iowa, including a new and lower state income tax rate, new restrictions for those convicted of drunken driving and a new data privacy law.

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A Fayette County woman was arrested Tuesday on charges that she drove while drunk with a child in the car and lost control, crashing into a ditch, according to the Fayette County Sheriff’s Office.

An Illinois man will plead guilty next week to one of his charges from a 2021 fatal crash on I-380. He was intoxicated and crashed his pickup truck into an SUV, killing 23-year-old David Nguyen of Cedar Rapids, according to court documents.

Iowa nurses have been sanctioned recently for being drunk at work, using cocaine, sleeping on the job and assaulting a patient.

A Cedar Rapids man was arrested this week on charges that he, while drunk, backed a car into a pregnant woman who had fallen out of the vehicle, causing life-threatening injuries.

One woman is dead and another is seriously injured after a car crash Monday night in Cedar Rapids, reportedly caused by a drunken driver.

Goal to keep below 300 in 2021 but already the traffic death toll on Iowa roads so far this year is 119.