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The bars where drivers got drunk before OUI arrests

Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill in Foxborough (above) led the state’s “place of last drink’’ list from 2012 through September 2016. John Tlumacki / The Boston Globe

By The Boston Globe

December 31, 2016

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In his 2003 song “I Love This Bar,” country star Toby Keith sings about the bikers, “blue-collar boys,” and other characters who hang out at a fictional watering hole.

But the real-life Massachusetts bar named after the song, Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill in Foxborough, counts another type among its regulars: drunk drivers.

Since 2012, the music-themed bar at the Patriot Place shopping complex outside Gillette Stadium has been named 46 times by convicted drunk drivers as the last place they drank before getting arrested, more than any other establishment in Massachusetts, according to court data.

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