Bill proposes ignition devices for all DWIs

[struggle4progress]

Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:32 pm | Updated: 11:26 pm, Wed Feb 13, 2013.
Travis Fain/Greensboro News & Record

GREENSBORO — ... Ignition interlock devices test a person’s blood-alcohol level before allowing a vehicle to start. Current law requires the devices for many repeat offenders and some first-time offenders found to have a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.15 percent, nearly double the legal driving limit of 0.08 percent.

House Bill 43, sponsored by state Rep. Darren Jackson, would require the ignition interlock devices after any DWI ...

House Bill 31, which would change the way habitual DWI is determined, is tied to a Forsyth County case from the early 1980s in which a drunken driver killed a Walkertown couple and their 8-month old granddaughter ...

http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_ceabcd1e-764e-11e2-a120-0019bb30f31a.html

[littlewolf]

1. sounds like a good plan to me. nt