XPost: can.politics, bc.politics, van.general
XPost: vic.general
From: Çons®36%@all.ca
On 16/01/2012 9:57 AM, simplicity wrote:
> You have a point. What is bordering bizarre is the fact that this
> happens at the same time when governments and police go on the witch
> hunt in the attempt to eliminate alcohol from the roads.
>>"Dave Smith" wrote in message
>>news:poGRq.110582$j02.82469@unlimited.newshosting.com...
>>We have a prime example of the idiocy in Ontario where drivers under age
>> 22 are allowing zero alcohol. It wasn't enough to have 0.08 BAC for DUI,
>> or a 24 hour suspension at 0.05, new drivers and all drivers under 22
>> are not allowed any alcohol in their system.
>>
>> This 0 BAC was the result of lobbying by the father his son and a couple
>> of his friends in an drunk driving crash. The kids had been at his club
>> in Muskoka and had been been drinking their faces off all day. They were
>> all drunk. We are not talking 0.01 to 0.05 BAC. DRUNK.
Whatever it takes . . . . by whoever decides enough is enough.
BC decided that the ".08" allowance just wasn't keeping the drunks off the
roads and they
brought in some very tough legislation that involved CONFISCATION of vehicles
on top of long
licence suspensions. And guess what ? . . . .
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Vancouver Sun - November 23, 2011
Alcohol-related traffic deaths down 40 per cent in B.C.
Drop follows B.C.'s introduction of tough new drinking and driving rules
Alcohol-related deaths have dropped 40 per cent in the year since B.C.'s tough
new drinking and
driving rules took effect, Premier Christy Clark announced Wednesday.
Clark said alcohol-related motor vehicle deaths dropped to 68 this past year
from an average of
113 deaths on average in each of the previous five years.
Clark also said police impounded 20,020 vehicles under the new rules over the
past year. Police
served 23,366 immediate roadside prohibitions to drinking drivers.
British Columbia’s new drinking and driving laws, which took effect Sept. 20,
2010, allow
police to immediately fine and suspend drivers caught with a blood-alcohol
level as low as
0.05.
"For the first time in a decade, we've seen a real drop in the deaths
associated with impaired
driving," said Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Shirley Bond.
Bond said prevention and education programs, along with the tougher
enforcement, are aimed at
making that success "a life-saving trend over the longer term."
"The first-year success is a reflection of a significant change in public
attitude towards
drinking and driving, with enforcement and immediate sanctions reinforcing
this remarkable
change," said Chief Supt. Bill Dingwall, president of the B.C. Association of
Chiefs of Police.
According to the Ministry of Public Safety, between Sept. 20, 2010, when the
new penalties went
into effect, and Sept. 30, 2011:
- Police across B.C. served 23,366 immediate roadside prohibitions to drinking
drivers.
- Of these, 15,401 were to drivers who blew in the "fail" range (blood alcohol
of 0.08 per cent
or over) or refused to provide a breath sample.
- 7,965 were to drivers who blew in the "warn" range (i.e., provided a breath
sample between
0.05 and 0.08 per cent).
- Police impounded 20,020 drinking-drivers' vehicles at the roadside.
- In 14,951 cases, drivers received a 30-day impound for a "fail."
- Of the other 5,069 impounds for a "warn," 98 per cent were three-day
impounds for drivers
caught a first time under the new rules. (Vehicle impoundment is at the
discretion of police on
the first or second occasion that a driver blows in the "warn" range.)
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