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North Carolina's leading Ignition Interlock provider
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 …
It never ends well, but some people try it anyway. After an Arizona DUI, an ignition interlock device is mandatory. Most people get with the program and drive responsibly, but a few think they can bypass an ignition interlock, which prevents a vehicle from starting if the driver has been drinking. A woman in Phoenix …
If you have an Arizona DUI, one of the requirements for having your driving privileges reinstated is getting an Arizona ignition interlock – a device which prevents the vehicle from starting if the driver has been drinking. You have 30 days to have the device installed. The process for getting the device isn’t hard. You …
If you’ve had an ignition interlock installed in your vehicle, you’re dealing with factors that you never had to think about before. Delivering a breath sample on a regular basis while driving isn’t hard, but it does take a bit of practice and forethought, and if you’re not careful, you could run into snags. One …
If you have an ignition interlock in your vehicle, your relationship to alcohol has probably changed. You know enough not to drink if you are going to drive in the near future. Interlocks are sensitive devices – they have to be, since they’re designed to detect alcohol at a concentration of about .02 BAC, which …
Insanity, they say, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. That makes license suspension for DWI pretty crazy. Ronnie Lee Welch is today’s example. Recently he was charged with his 16th DWI in Gaston County. The judge, fed up with punishments that weren’t having effect, decided to stop the …
Most people view an ignition interlock as what it is: a device designed to measure breath alcohol that keeps you from starting a vehicle if you’ve been drinking. It’s a valuable piece of safety technology. But some people view it as a challenge. Bad idea. We don’t know why it is. As soon as someone …
