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Goal: Eliminate Drinking?or Dangerous Driving?

By Lawrence Taylor

Two stories in today’s newspapers say a lot about where the focus is for saving lives on the highways: Random Tests Go Too Far Winnipeg, Canada.  Oct. 18 — Police powers to check for impaired driving have encroached relentlessly upon civil liberties, such that innocent motorists are randomly, routinely pulled over and questioned, absent of cause. If an officer suspects any drinking has occurred, drivers must take a test. The penalties for refusing are equal to failing the test... Now the Harper government wants to eliminate the need for any suspicion of drinking, allowing police to randomly demand a roadside test. Advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving is celebrating, saying this should make the glass of wine with dinner a thing of the past… MADD, however, has been strangely silent about the proven greater dangers to human life of talking or texting on cell phones while driving...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on October 18, 2010 (boomark / email).