Tuesday, March 12, 2013
The information in this report is from the Solon Police. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
Solon Police recently arrested two drivers and charged them with drunken driving in the last week. Here's a roundup of those arrests taken from police reports. Remember, these are only charges, and not convictions. For information on blood-alcohol and how many drinks it may take you to be over the legal limit, consult the PDF chart attached to this post.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
The information in this report is from the Solon Police. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
Solon Police arrested three drivers and charged them with drunken driving in the last week. Here's a roundup of those arrests. Remember, these are only charges, and not convictions.
Wednesday, December 26, 2012
The information in this report is from the Solon Police. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
A Twinsburg woman was arrested and charged with drunken driving after she crashed her car into a traffic pole in Solon, according to Solon Police. A 47-year-old Twinsburg woman was charged on Dec. 22 with drunken driving and failure to control after her car struck a traffic pole at the intersection of Solon and Aurora roads in Solon, according to a police report. The woman said she had just left a work holiday part at Freeway Lanes in Solon, and she was stumbling around and slurring her speech after the crash, according to the report. She registered a .162 on the breathalyzer test, above the legal limit of .08, according to police.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
The information in this report is from the Solon Police. An arrest does not mean a conviction.
A Bedford woman faces charges of drunken driving and drug abuse after a Solon Police officer found her sleeping in her car in the middle of Aurora Road, according to a police report. Arrested and charged with Tamara Boykin, 37, of Bedford. She is charged with drunken driving, drug abuse, possession of drug paraphernalia and stopping or slow speed, according to the report. On Dec. 16 at about 3 a.m., a Solon Police officer found a car stopped on Aurora Road near the 31500 block. The brake lights of the car were on, and it was running. The officer approached the car to find a woman sleeping in the driver's seat with the car in drive and her foot on the brake. The officer reached into the car and put it in park before rousing the woman, reads…
Thursday, December 13, 2012
If you insist on driving after a few drinks, here's what you should know about how alcohol affects your system and your criminal record.
Do you know how many drinks you can have before you're in danger of getting a drunken driving violation? This year in Solon, there have been a number of drunken driving arrests, including many during a checkpoint event earlier this year. As we head into the holiday season, Patch wants you to know when enough is enough. When police pull drivers over for suspected drunken driving, officers ask them to perform field sobriety tests and to take a breath test to measure Blood Alcohol Content. A BAC test measures the percentage of alcohol present in a person's bloodstream. Ohio's legal limit is 0.08. According to the Virginia Tech Alcohol Abuse Prevention website, every 40 minutes, 0.01 percent of alcohol leaves your system. The limit for …
