NJ DWI Ignition Interlock update!
Jun 23rd, 2009 | By Michael L. Saile, Jr., Esq. | Category: Blogs, Criminal & Traffic, DUI-DWI-DAI (Drunk Driving)
Under this law, all persons convicted of an NJ DWI (driving while intoxicated) offense would be required to install an ignition interlock system in their vehicles. Under the current law, only repeat NJ DWI offenders are required to install the ignition interlock system.
Ricci’s Law would require ignition interlock systems to prevent a vehicle’s ignition from starting if the driver’s blood alcohol content is .04 percent or higher. The driver must actually breathe into the device once entering the vehicle and if the driver’s blood alcohol content (B.A.C.) is below the preset limit, the car will start. If the driver’s blood alcohol content (B.A.C.) exceeds the present limit, the vehicle will not start.
Ricci’s Law would make use of the interlock installation system mandatory during the drivers’ license suspension period. Additionally, the law would require the device to be in place and operational for a span of six months to one year for a first New Jersey DWI offense, two years for a second DWI offense and ten years for a third and all subsequent NJ DWI offenses.
Ricci’s Law is named in honor of 17-year old Ricci Branca from Egg Harbor Township, NJ, who was struck and killed by an NJ drunk driver while riding his bicycle. The driver who hit Ricci fled the scene of the fatal NJ car accident and was found by police to have a blood alcohol content (B.A.C.) four times higher than that of the legal limit.
Now both the New Jersey and Pennsylvania legislatures are pushing for a mandatory ignition interlock on all NJ DWI offenses and all PA DUI offenses. I predict that someday all registered vehicles will be required to have an ignition interlock.
PUT THEM ON ALL CARS,MANDATORY, ….. MAKE IT THAT EVERY CAR SOLD AT A NJ DEALERSHIP, OR REGISTERED IN NJ, MUST HAVE THE INTERLOCK DEVICE ON IT BY 2010 —
PROBLEM SOLVED,
PUTTING INTERLOCK IGNITION DEVICES ON CARS AFTER DUI CONVICTION IS RIDICULOUS, …. PUT IT ON BEFORE, MAKE IT MANDATORY FOR ALL CARS, ….. MAKE IT STANDARD EQUIPMENT —-ELIMINATE DRUNK DRIVING, DRUNK DRIVING ARRESTS, DRUNKING DRIVING ACCIDENTS, DRUNK DRIVING DEATHS, DRUNK DRIVING TRIALS, —–ELIMINATE THE WHOLE SHEBANG, IN ONE SWOOP.
I DONT CARE IF MADD WANTS IT, OR WHAT THE POLITICS ARE
IT MAKES SENSE, AND PUTS THE DUI LAWYERS OUT OF BUSINESS ON DUI, IT SAVES LIVES, PREVENTS ACCIDENTS, PREVENTS ILLEGAL ARRESTS,
HAVING MANDATORY ALCOHOL INTERLOCKS ON ALL CARS MAKES GREAT SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ypu get pulled over, there is no way you can be arrested for alcohol dui, …. ever, as the car couldnt have started above 0,04 bac, its ingenious, and great, and protects everyones rights…