Sacramento DUI offenders to use Ignition locks
Sacramento DUI Lawyers will have to deal with another hurdle in the court room. Drunk drivers will have to blow into their ignition interlock device before they can drive.
If convicted after July 1, in Sacramento County first time drunk driving offenders must have ignition interlock devices installed in their cars. Sacramento is a test county for the device. The device will be temporary, just five months.
They’ll have to blow into a tube, and if the device detects alcohol, the car won’t start.
The pilot program is being hailed as a major step in California’s decades-long efforts to cut drunken driving. Sacramento was included partly because of its high drunken-driving rate.
“By installing (the) devices, we are making it harder for DUI offenders to get behind the wheel while intoxicated, and we are working to save innocent lives,” Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said after signing the bill.
Mothers Against Drunk Driving national president Laura Dean-Mooney says “The great thing is, (offenders) can continue to drive to work or take their kids to school.”
The program will be tested through 2015 in Sacramento, Alameda, Los Angeles and Tulare counties. A report to the Legislature in 2015 will evaluate whether it worked.
Some criminal defense attorneys argue that this should be used for those who have multiple offenses. There could be glitches such as false positives that prevents a sober person from driving.
Drunken driving remains one of the state’s top road concerns, safety officials said. In 2008, 30 percent of California roadway deaths – more than 1,000 – occurred in crashes where at least one driver was legally drunk, according to the state Office of Traffic Safety.
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