San Diego DUI lawyers are told of a new report from the AAA finds that while men are still the most frequent DUI offenders, a growing number of young women are driving drunk behind the wheel in California.

According to the Sacramento Bee, AAA researcher Stephen Bloch says the statistics show that DUIs of women age 21 to 24 more than doubled in the last decade.

Bloch told the state's Office of Traffic Safety that the increase may have something to do with Hollywood and the increase in DUI arrests of young female celebrities.

Adrian Quintero of the California Highway Patrol says the DUI figures show that women have not increased their consumption of alcohol, but have been increasingly behind the wheel.

"If women go out drinking as a group, it's not that women are drinking more but that women are in the driver's seat when the car is pulled over," he told the paper.

Last month Lindsey Lohan had an arrest warrant issued against her stemming from a 2007 DUI arrest - her first of two DUI offenses that year. The arrest warrant was later dropped after a judge said a paperwork mix-up appeared to show Lohan had met the conditions of her probation.

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