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North Carolina's leading Ignition Interlock provider
What is it about people? We tolerate all kinds of abuses, but don’t let anyone lay a hand on a puppy or a kitten. And we don’t get mad enough about drunk drivers that ply the roads every day. But if the drunk driver crashes a classic ride, then it’s a tragedy. Actually, we get …
Arizona got serious about drunk driving back in 2007, when one of the country’s first ignition interlock laws went into effect. An ignition interlock, or car breathalyzer, prevents a vehicle from starting if the driver has been drinking. The device has saved many lives since then – by MADD’s reckoning, more than 78,000 drunk driving …
If you’ve driven past 100 Billingsley Road in Charlotte, North Carolina, you might have noticed flags on the lawn – thousands of them. Those flags are meant to be a reminder to every driver in Mecklenburg County not to drink and drive. There are 3,053 flags, to mark the number of DWI charges filed in …
One of the delights of spring in America’s high schools is the prom – a chance for teens to dress up and celebrate the end of a tough school year – usually their last high school year – with a formal event. Most parents, though, are a bit nervous on prom night if driving is …
2016 has gotten some bad press, for good reasons. Celebrity deaths, Zika, political upheavals, clowns… all in all, we preferred 2015, and most other years. One statistic that marks the year as a sad one was motor vehicle deaths – 2016 was probably the deadliest year since 2007, with around 40,000 road deaths. Which doesn’t …
The trend for states to adopt ignition interlocks for drunk driving offenses is on the rise. An ignition interlock, or car breathalyzer, prevents a vehicle from starting if the driver has been drinking. Currently 29 states mandate the devices for all such offenses, including first offenses. What was once thought to be a remedy for …
Imagine if every person in Phoenix, Tucson and Scottsdale took to the road drunk — 2.3 million people, each under the influence of alcohol. It would be a pretty horrific scenario. It isn’t going to happen, but it almost happened, in a way, in slow motion. Over the past 10 years 2.3 million people tried to …
What’s going on, people? You were alerted. Before St. Patrick’s Day announcements went out proclaiming that police departments everywhere were cracking down in drunk drivers. Patrols would be out looking for anyone who showed signs of impairment. Enforcement was massive and coordinated: DUI checkpoints, saturation patrols, and other types of enhanced enforcement helped round up drivers …
