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400 Washington D.C. Drivers Wrongly Convicted Of Drunk Driving

Thanks to increasingly strict drunk driving laws, a drunk driving conviction can easily ruin a person's life. With those kind of stakes you would think that everyone involved in DUI/DWI enforcement would be especially careful about the evidence they use ...

Ignition Interlock Stories From The NMA Forums

Since the NMA Forums launched last year, one of the most popular topics of discussion has been ignition interlocks. It becomes clear after reading just a few of these stories that ignition interlock technology is not advanced enough for ...

It’s That Time Of Year Again…

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Holiday shopping -- and holiday traffic checkpoints -- are sure signs it's Christmas. Randomly stopping motorists to look for drunk drivers has been common practice in many states for years now, but enforcement efforts tend to ...

Goodbye, Fifth Amendment

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist Next time you get pulled over by a cop - or stopped at random in a "sobriety checkpoint" -- you might want to remember the following laugh line: It's called the Fifth Amendment to the Bill ...

California Supreme Court: Breathalyzer Results Can Be Challenged

An article in the Los Angeles Times late last week brought attention to the California Supreme Court's recent ruling that Breathalyzer findings can be challenged in court: Under the law, a suspected drunk driver can submit to either a blood test, ...

The Ignition Interlock Hoax

By James Baxter, NMA President MADD and its bloated stepmother, NHTSA, have been pushing for mandated ignition interlock devices (IIDs), preferably in all vehicles, but they know from experience these things have to be done in an incremental fashion, or there ...

MADD Pushes To Make DUI Violations A Felony

By James Baxter, NMA President MADD’s current excuse for existing is to make DUI violations a felony, the most serious of criminal convictions. A felon, along with going to prison, loses the right to vote, the right to possess firearms, any ...

Vengeance, Bad Data Make For Terrible DUI/DWI Policy

By James Baxter, NMA President This editorial by James Baxter is a response to a five part series on drunk driving in Wisconsin that appeared in the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel in October. The Journel-Sentinel series on “excessive drinking,” primarily related to drunk driving, ...

A Blueprint For Reasonable Drunk Driving Laws

As a followup to last week's post on the possibility of mandatory breathalyzers in every vehicle, we thought it would be worth going over the organization's stance on DUI/DWI laws: The NMA supports drinking and driving regulations based on reasonable standards ...

Mandatory In-Car Breathalyzers Coming?

By Eric Peters, Automotive Columnist If you're not a convicted drunk driver, should you still be required to have an in-car breathalyzer fitted (at your expense, 'natch) to your next new vehicle? Apparently, some automakers -- including GM and Toyota -- ...