On the same subject:

I have carped for the longest time about the lack of "easy availability" to personal breath testing devices marketed and given away.  Possibly MAD should spend their money in doing that?  People are going to socialize with friends and they are going to public places to drink.  Most people are intelligent and will wait until they are "legally in control" if they only knew when that was.   The few who with mental problems must face the stiff laws we have now.  But what percent of the population are they.  We have stiff laws.  But yet ordinary people are picked up all the time who would just as soon wait another half hour if they knew their breath score.  These testers are dirt cheap, both in devices and one shot tests.  They are all over the internet if one is aware.  Why should ordinary people take risks and subject their lives to the trauma of court, huge fines, and worse.


Again since greed is so popular a topic.  The tavern and restaurant owners don't want people just sitting around and certainly the municipalities have most to gain with these huge fines.  In fact if there were absolute zero as you suggest, the municipalities would be against that as there would be no question of the breath limit.  So, I put this out to MAD.  Just why don't you promote personal breath testers???

Eric
Matthew Berigan wrote:

Folks,

 

This may be somewhat tangential to this list's bike focus but I'm always amazed at how it seems so difficult to enact effective controls for OWI here and don't know how to start talk about a potential solution to the problem. Last July I was in Brazil when they did a federal-level change that they called "tolerancia zero." I swear that almost overnight things changed and the news reports brought data about drastic reductions in accidents. I didn't see a lot of people wringing their hands over "rights" lost or the use of blitz road-checks. In fact, most everybody thinks it is pretty cool. Taxi cab drivers love it as their business has boomed.

 

I've had my close calls with OWI drivers. It scares me when I'm on a bike, when I'm in a car and when I'm on foot.

 

Oh - I'm not against drinking.

 

Here a blurb on Brazil's "Zero Tolerance:"

 

Zero Tolerance for Drinking and Driving in Brazil

Monday July 21, 2008

Brazil has a new zero tolerance law for drinking and driving, valid all over the national territory. The law, which came into effect last June 19, has spurred the debate about the dangers of driving under the influence. Studies which informed Law 11.705, commonly referred to as Lei Seca, or Dry Law, conclude that there is no risk-free limit for blood alcohol content (BAC) in drivers.

The previous BAC to configure a DUI in Brazil was .06. The Dry Law goes beyond tackling drunk driving to crack down on impaired driving.

However, a great number of Brazilians feel that there is still more to be done. According to a national survey about alcohol consumption in Brazil, the heaviest drinkers in the country are people between 18 and 24 years of age. The legal drinking age in Brazil is 18, but the consumption of alcohol is growing among younger people, aided by a lax enforcement of laws against the sale of alcoholic beverages to minors.

From: http://alcoholism.about.com/b/2008/07/22/brazil-adopts-zero-tolerance-dui-policy.htm

 

 

 

See larger article with some stats on drop in accidental death rate drop at http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=43317


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