Dateline San Francisco — Mothers Against Drunk Driving this morning joined victim survivors and law enforcement partners to urge the state Senate Public Safety Committee to pass to pass Senate Bill 1046 to stop “completely preventable” drunk driving tragedies in California.
On Tuesday, the committee — chaired by Sen. Loni Hancock, and Sens. Joel Anderson, Steven Glazer, Mark Leno, Carol Liu, Bill Monning and Jeff Stone — will consider 1046, which would expand California’s ignition interlock law to all offenders.
In 2014, 882 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes in California.
State lawmakers have the opportunity to pass a lifesaving law that would require ignition interlocks for all convicted drunk drivers, which have reduced drunk driving deaths by up to 50 percent in other states.
In California, ignition interlocks have stopped more than 1 million attempts to drink and drive.
Of those, 124,000 were drivers with a blood alcohol concentration of .08 or more, the legal threshold for impaired driving in all 50 states.
More potential drunk drivers would be stopped — and more lives would be saved — if California expanded its interlock requirement statewide.
Founded by a mother whose daughter was killed by a drunk driver, Mothers Against Drunk Driving is the nation’s largest nonprofit working to protect families from drunk driving and underage drinking.
With the help of those who want a safer future, MADD’s Campaign to Eliminate Drunk Driving will end this danger on America’s roads.
See www.madd.org
That is incredible!
I just read an article about how drug impaired driving is also on the rise. The double whammy is when individuals use drugs & drink & drive causing so much harm.
Interlocks are one good step towards putting a barrier on drunk driving because reports have shown that individuals who have been arrested for DUI still end up drinking and driving. It’s a habit that needs changing and hopefully interlocks will help change that.