An Edmond legislator is calling for tougher driving-under-the- influence laws in the wake of an accident that killed a 20-year-old Oklahoma State University student. Speaking at a Capitol press conference Wednesday afternoon, Republican state Sen. Clark Jolley said a legislative proposal would tighten the state's DUI laws and take another step toward getting drunken drivers off the road. The measure, the Erin Elizabeth Swezey Act, would require anyone convicted of a DUI to have an ignition interlock device installed in his or her vehicle for at least two years.
Two new laws requiring the installation of ignition inhibitors in the vehicles of driving-under-the-influence offenders could boost business for Oklahoma vendors with approved devices. Senate Bill 529 requires ignition inhibitors, also called interlocks, for first-time DUI offenders with a blood or breath alcohol content of 0.15 or more for one and a half years. Second- time offenders must have the inhibitors for four years, and third- time offenders and above must have one for five years.
Arizona's policymakers are taking a hard, second look at the state's current set of driving-under-the-influence laws, regarded to be the toughest in the nation, to see whether they might have gone too far. The liquor industry argues that the state has overreached by enacting a handful of oppressive DUI laws that have depressed alcohol sales. Consumers who normally would order a drink or two during dinner are abstaining, leaders in the hospitality industry have said, because they fear the heftier punishments for first-time offenders, those with repeated violations and the most intoxicated of drivers.
Illinois has seen a historic drop in traffic fatalities under the leadership of Gov. ([Rod Blagojevich]) Blagojevich - to levels we haven't seen since 1924," said Milton Sees, secretary of the Illinois Department of Transportation. "But, with more than 45 percent of our state's traffic fatalities involving alcohol, we know we need to continue aggressively attacking the problem of drunk drivers. Increased enforcement is a way to save more lives. "He was coming home from work after doing some overtime around 2 a.m. A drunk driver tried to pass a car up by going around it and ended up hitting my husband's car head on," she recalled. "The bad part about the accident is the driver had been convicted three years ago for DUI." "It is a top priority of mine to use the resources of my office t...
The first calls reporters usually make the morning of Jan. 1 are to police, who fill in journalists on how many tragic crashes were caused by drunken drivers on New Year's Eve. There is no reason for this tragic ritual to continue every time the last calendar page is torn off. If only California would strengthen its dated and forgiving drunken driving laws.
Horn Lake police have received a $52,193 grant to improve enforcement of drunk driving laws, and $9,000 extra to help coordinate DUI enforcement in Northwest Mississippi. We've always been proactive in the enforcement of DUI offenses, but even then we've felt that the majority of impaired drivers have not been caught," Capt. Shannon Beshears said.
Think we're tough? Try driving drunk in Japan. The first calls P-T reporters make the morning of Jan. 1 are usually to cops. Authorities from various agencies fill them in on how many fatal and injurious crashes were caused by drunken drivers the night before.
Anne Parker Story was certainly right on the mark by saying that no penalty is too tough for DUI offenses in Utah (Readers' Forum, Oct. 19). If one of Jason Schatz's own children were maimed or killed by a drunken driver, you can be certain that he would do everything within his power to ensure that the driver was prosecuted to the full extent of the law. I can only assume that one of his prime responsibilities is that of defending drunken drivers, and that being the case, of course he would tend to characterize Utah's DUI laws as "too harsh. Consider the hundreds of citizens throughout Utah who have lost their lives and the number of families torn apart at the hands of drunken drivers. To say that Utah laws are too tough on DUI offenders is totally absurd.
By Bill McCarthy bmccarthy@wyomingnews.com
The attorney for an Oakmont man convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol - for the 19th time - contends his client was unfairly targeted by a DUI task force. Steven Weiss, attorney for William Beall, 65, says the members of Sonoma County's DUI task force, who arrested him for having alcohol in his house, set out "with the idea of getting him back in custody and not with the idea of being fair to him . . .
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