Personal Injury Law

Is the State Doing Enough to Prevent Massachusetts Car Crashes By Discouraging Drunk Driving?

By Altman & Altman

The National Transportation Safety Board says that Massachusetts ranks among the worst states when it comes to adopting federal drunk driving recommendations because it has only put into effect just 4 of the agency?s 11 recommendations for keeping repeat drunk drivers off the streets. This news raises the question, is the state doing enough to get drunk drivers off the road so that the number of Massachusetts car accidents that happen each year goes down?

Our Boston injury lawyers talk to families on a regular basis that have suffered inconsolable losses because a drunk driver got in a car and fatally struck a loved one. Adopting tougher measures to prevent drunk driving can only save lives.

Among the NTSB?s recommendations:
? The adoption of a dedicated drunk driving court
? Ignition interlock devices on first time offenders
? Not allowing an offender?s record to be scrubbed just because he/she underwent treatment
? Impounding a drunk driver?s vehicle
? Confiscation of license plates
? Long-term alcohol treatment
? Unannounced alcohol testing for drunk driver offenders

Drunk driving blurs the vision, slows reflexes, delays reaction time, and creates an altered state of reality that can make it impossible for a motorist to stay in control of his/her vehicle. Our Boston injury law firm knows how to pursue financial recovery against a drunk driver. Although nothing can be done to bring back a loved one that was killed or restore you or your life to the way it was before the collision that caused your catastrophic injuries, you still may have grounds for a civil case.

Feds: Mass. doing poor job vs. drunken driving, Boston Herald, February 10, 2011

Massachusetts faulted in fight against drunken driving, Gazettenet.com/AP, November 17, 2010

Related Web Resources:
National Transportation Safety Board

Massachusetts Laws About Drunk Driving

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Lynn Man Sustains Serious Injuries in Salem Car Crash Involving Alleged Drunken Driver, Boston Injury Lawyer Blog, August 30, 2010

Boston Wrong-Way Accident on Mass Pike Kills One Man and Seriously Injures His Friend, Boston Injury Lawyer Blog, December 29, 2009

Full post as published by Boston Injury Lawyer Blog on February 12, 2011 (boomark / email).