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North Carolina's leading Ignition Interlock provider
If you are charged with a DWI in North Carolina, you will certainly be distraught and confused about what is happening to you. This is understandable. It is important to realize that many people have already gone through what you are experiencing. Your first priority should be to obtain good advice so that you are …
It’s amazing what a half million dollars can do. It can buy you a month’s rental for a suite at a New York hotel, or an incredibly advanced belt buckle. But when the federal government laid that sum on Raleigh’s police department to combat drunk driving, the police set up a series of very efficient DWI …
In North Carolina DWI is a crime. But if you drink up in Charlotte and then (unwisely) drive down I-85 to Greenville, SC, you’ll be arrested for DUI. What’s the difference? The answer is: sometimes nothing, but sometimes a lot. Different states have different abbreviations for the standard crime of drunk driving. DUI (Driving Under …
There’s a roadblock ahead. A barrier has been set up, with police cars parked close by. A line of cars snakes up to the barrier. You’ve heard of DUI checkpoints, but you’ve never been stopped at one. What do you do? Some people are frightened of sobriety checkpoints, even if they haven’t had a drop to …
Arrests for impaired driving are up in Raleigh, NC. And that is a good thing. The increase in arrests – more than 50 percent – is due to greater vigilance, and not a sudden epidemic of drinking and driving. A federally-funded police unit made more than 2,800 arrests in 2014, more than 1000 more than …
If social drinkers measure their alcohol intake, it’s almost invariably in units of one drink. And that’s not a bad way to keep track, as long as nothing much is at stake. A drink, in the US, comprises roughly 14 grams of alcohol – a measurement no one uses outside of government agencies. That amount …
What would you do if someone were driving drunk, and you were tasked with preventing that person from doing it again? The most obvious answer would be to take away his or her driver’s license. And this most obvious answer is the one that many states still choose when confronting the problem of repeat drunk drivers. The …
Many thousands of drivers in the US have an ignition interlock installed in their vehicle. An ignition interlock, or car breathalyzer, prevents a vehicle from starting if the driver has been drinking. The vast majority of these drivers have an interlock because a court or DMV have ordered one after a DUI offense. But a …
