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North Carolina's leading Ignition Interlock provider
Highway 17 in Pender County, North Carolina is bad news. The community of Hampstead is served by three bars along the highway and a number of restaurants on the nearby beach. That makes for good evenings out, but for many years diners who had a few too many were not be able to call a …
If you’re drinking in Raleigh-Durham this Saturday, you might not need to worry about getting home without driving. You’re covered, and it won’t cost you a cent, thanks to the combination of technology and public-spirited enterprise. BeMyDD, a designated driver service, will spot you a free ride. Drinking alcohol goes back millennia in human history, …
They say no good deed goes unpunished. Not long ago a Phoenix man saw that his girlfriend was about to get in her car and drive while drunk. He did the right thing, and pulled the keys out of the ignition. Her response was to grab a crowbar and hit him in the head. It …
Any drunk driving incident is a crime, and a hazard to the driver and people around him or her. But when drunk driving becomes a habit, the danger is multiplied. That is why states rightly take stronger measures with a habitual drunk driver. Penny Seagroves of Zebulon has been convicted eight times for impaired driving …
A couple of things we know about high school-age teens: they engage in risky behavior, and they don’t get enough sleep. And now a CDC study suggests that these two facts are related. The Center for Disease Control found that almost 70 percent of teens reported that they don’t get enough sleep on an average school …
They’re easy to spot along the road, on a shoulder or at an intersection. A cross, a photograph, perhaps a teddy bear, some flowers. They not only commemorate a life lost on the road, they also mark the spot on which the life was lost. In Arizona, they’re illegal, and that seems wrong to the …
Last Tuesday the North Carolina General Assembly heard an impassioned plea: strengthen the state’s ignition interlock laws to prevent drunk driving. The speakers included Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) president Colleen Sheehey-Church and MADD North Carolina Executive Director LaRonda Scott. The law that would do the job is North Carolina HB 877/SB 619. Known as …
It has to be a record of some sort. Not too long ago, a man in Maynard, Massachusetts was arrested for Drunk Driving. Police knew something was up because the front right tire was completely gone. Back last November, a man in Riverside, Illinois was arrested for driving without two front tires – and, of …
