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North Carolina's leading Ignition Interlock provider
Arizona gives drivers with a drunk driving conviction the chance to regain their driving privileges with an ignition interlock – a device which prevents a vehicle from starting if the driver has been drinking. Most offenders do well in Arizona with the device: statistics show that ignition interlocks reduce recidivism, and most first-time DUI offenders …
“Ignition interlocks achieve what license suspension cannot,” says a recent email from MADD to its supporters. “They separate drinking from driving.” Now MADD – Mothers Against Drunk Driving – is starting a push to bring ignition interlocks to all drunk driving offenders – repeat DUI offenders and first-time drunk drivers – in every US state. …
It began in the mid-2000s. Nevada and Arizona started something that is still sweeping the country. They mandated ignition interlocks for all drunk driving offenses, including first offenses. An ignition interlock, or car breathalyzer, prevents a vehicle from starting if the driver has been drinking. Other states had been adopting the device since the 1990s …
If you read the news across the country, it’s clear that the jury’s in regarding ignition interlocks: they work to reduce alcohol-related road deaths. More and more states are mandating the devices for all drunk drivers, including first offenders. Other states are tightening up their laws and regulations so the devices are used more effectively. …
Over the past two decades ignition interlocks have emerged as the most important anti-drunk driving technology yet developed. The car breathalyzer devices prevent a vehicle from starting if the driver has been drinking. Usually they are ordered to be installed on a North Carolina DWI offender’s vehicle by the court or a DMV. When installed …
Ignition interlocks have one purpose – to keep a driver from starting a vehicle if he or she has been drinking. And the devices do that well. Sometimes they appear to do it too well: the devices do such a good job detecting alcohol that they register a fail for reasons other than drinking – …
You’re driving back from a restaurant after a sumptuous meal. A police officer pulls you over – maybe you forgot to signal, or maybe it’s the proverbial broken taillight. Just then you remember that, while you didn’t drink, you had a dish smothered in wine sauce. Do you need to fear the breathalyzer? The answer …
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 …
