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An Ignition Interlock Device is a breath analyzer on your vehicle that is electronically connected to the ignition. These devices, the SSI 1000, is about the size of a cellular phone. When you breathe into the unit for several seconds, it measures your breath alcohol level and compares it with predetermined limits. If your breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) is over the authorized limit, your vehicle will not start.
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The High Cost of a DUI Money Talks News (blog) Fourteen states require ignition interlocks after a first conviction. For example, Connecticut suspends a first-time DUI offender's license for 45 days, then requires an ignition interlock device be installed in all of the offender's registered ... |
NBC Bay Area | Alarmed by deaths, regulators urge states to lower drunk driving limit Los Angeles Times ... passed a transportation funding bill that offers additional highway money to states that require ignition interlock devices for DUI offenders. In a pilot project that runs through 2016, DUI offenders in Los Angeles County and three other California ... Proposal To Lower DUI Threshold Draws Mixed Reaction In Bay Area NTSB Wants to Reduce Legal Driving Blood Alcohol Level to .05 One drink DUI? Feds want lower threshold for drunk driving |
Contra Costa Times editorial: Lowering limit on alcohol level is a solid idea Contra Costa Times The lower blood-alcohol limit isn't the only NTSB recommendation aimed at making our roads safer from drunken drivers. The NTSB also wants to create incentives for states to adopt best practices for more widespread use of various ignition-lock systems. |
Car stolen from Brussels overnight Huron News Now The vehicle was left unlocked with the ignition key inside the vehicle. The estimated value of the vehicle is around $13,000. Please do your part to prevent a crime, OPP urge. Lock your vehicle doors, do not leave your ignition key in the vehicle and ... |
Wall Street Journal | Blurry Line on Pot-DUI Cases Wall Street Journal California Highway Patrol Officer Sean Deise prepares to test a man for the influence of marijuana after pulling him over last month in Oakland. As some states relax laws ... Ian Goodhew, deputy chief of staff for the King County prosecutor's office ... |
Take some guns? Sure; Let's also take some cars The Courier-Express California just set aside some $20 million to hire extra enforcement officers. Their duties will involve taking guns away from people who acquired them legally, but then ... Ms. James purposely drove a car that she did not own to avoid the ignition ... |
Auto Outlook: Is the driving boom over; domestic cars quality up UPI.com A 2013 Dodge Dart is seen at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show held at the Convention Center in Los Angeles, California on November 29, 2012. UPI/Phil McCarten. License photo. Published: May 19, 2013 at 5:30 AM. By AL SWANSON .... The Governors Highway ... |
Austin Seferian-Jenkins' pretrial hearing postponed until July | Northwest roundup The Seattle Times Defense attorney Bill Kirk asked for the delay and a release of $1,000 bail on the condition that Seferian-Jenkins abstain from drinking and not drive without an ignition interlock device. Seferian-Jenkins was indefinitely suspended from all official ... |
Survey: Put the hammer to texters MSN Money Man using hands-free phone (© Digital Vision Ltd./Getty Images) That was the task before 1,000 drivers in a new survey commissioned by CarInsurance.com. Motorists were .... All states require installation of an ignition interlock device after a DUI ... |
New impaired driving rules to keep children safe Halifax News Net ... and may also have to participate in the Alcohol Ignition Interlock Program. As of today, those convicted of impaired driving with a child passenger face increased penalties, including losing their licence for at least two years and must participate ... Drunk drivers with children in vehicle face stiffer penalty |