New York's new DWI Law
New York State is toughening up penalties for drunk driving with children on board, in response to recent horrific drunk driving accidents, such as the Diane Schuler case, in which eight people were killed.
The law will be named to honor an 11-year-old girl, Leandra Rosado, was killed after the mother of one of her friends, who has since been charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated, flipped her car on the Henry Hudson Parkway in Manhattan. The new law was named in honor of the girl.
