That one you posted that happened in Green Bay really hit home. My company was just south of there about 30 miles and back about 10 years ago one of our customer service girls had about the same thing happen. Her and her husband were coming back from a typical Friday night in the Valley, both drunk hit a guy in the dead of winter and when the cops finally caught up with them they claimed they hit a deer. She ended up doing 5 years, she was driving. More drunks in Wisconsin on a Friday night than anywhere in the country.
I thought that WI had (at least) a bar on every corner so one could easily walk home. (I realize that driving is much easier than walking.)
If only we could keep drunks from driving.
Shuler backs money for alcohol-sensing technology in cars during Asheville news conference
ASHEVILLE — In a few years, every new car might be able to tell whether the person sitting behind the wheel is sober enough to drive — and refuse to go anywhere if the answer is no.
Legislation backed by U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler, a Waynesville Democrat, would provide $60 million in federal funds aimed at making that day come sooner.
The bill, Shuler said at a press conference Monday, eventually “will take drunk drivers off the road.”
Shuler, local law enforcement officials and the national president-elect of Mothers Against Drunk Driving spoke at the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office to support the measure to move the money from a fund used to encourage seat belt use.
Shuler is one of two co-sponsors of a measure, introduced in the House Thursday by U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., to make the switch. A similar bill was introduced in the Senate in March.
Most states already allow judges to require that people convicted of driving while impaired use a breathalyzer connected to their vehicle’s ignition. The car won’t start if the driver has a higher blood-alcohol content than allowed.