A driver charged with drunken driving in Rhode Island pleaded not guilty Monday in Attleboro District Court.

According to officials with the Rhode Island State Police, 44 year-old Frederic M. Golembewski, of 86 High St. in North Attleboro, was ordered held in jail in lieu of $5,000 bail after pleading not guilty to a second-offense drunken driving charge and three related offenses. Investigators say Golembewski collided with the rear of a car driven by 51 year-old Laura J. Russ, Friday night.

Russ suffered a broken ankle, two broken ribs and a punctured lung in the crash, but is expected to be released from Rhode Island Hospital in Providence Tuesday, prosecutors say.

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A Rhode Island man has been found guilty of drunk driving following a single-vehicle accident that left one man dead and two injured.

The man, identified as a Rhode Islander who spent some time in the Merchant Marine and formerly worked as a fisherman, publicly apologized to the court following the sentencing. The man was sentenced with six years imprisonment and six years of probation afterward.

According to the prosecution, the man was driving a truck with other passengers while intoxicated last summer. While on Block Island, the man began to accelerate to 73 miles-per-hour in a 25 mile-per-hour speed limit zone, eventually losing control over the truck, and crashing the vehicle into a tree and a wall made of stone.

Two of the driver’s passengers were injured. One other passenger was killed after being thrown from the truck due to the impact of the collision.

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A New York entrepreneur has created a new ignition lock that boasts real-time communication with police and emergency services and the breathalyzer device.

The device is capable of providing real-time information to authorities, including the capability of sending failed results to police in order to stop particular drivers from harming other people, a camera to ensure that another person is not blowing into the breathalyzer, and can randomly test drivers during their travels.

Interceptor Ignition Interlocks, Inc., was started as an idea John Ruocco had to remedy the tragic consequences of drunk driving he felt in his own life. Beginning in 2000, Ruocco looked at other ignition locks, seeing what worked and what did not. In 2004, he used funding from a previous venture to start up his new ignition lock company and design the device.

The Interceptor is currently only certified in seven states, but, with stricter legislation being passed throughout the U.S. concerning drunk drivers, he is optimistic that his patented real-time design will win out over other systems.

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