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Amendments to the Motor Vehicle Act to restructure the Immediate Roadside Prohibition program with respect to drivers who blow over .08 are now available for public inspection on the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia web site. Highlights of the amendments include:

Support MADD Metro Vancouver by participating in the Strides for Change 5 km run/walk in Burnaby on June 9, 2012. The event takes place between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm in Central Park.

The Minister of Justice has announced that amendments are being made to the Motor Vehicle Act to facilitate the return of the Immediate Roadside Prohibition for drivers who blow a fail on an approved screening device at the roadside.

Kaarina Engelbrecht was reported to police as an erratic driver on March 27, 2011. Her vehicle was located by patrols and after an altercation at roadside she was taken to the Kelowna RCMP detachment for breath testing. She provided breath samples of 110 mg% and was charged with driving without due care and attention.

Clare Bekkers spent the evening at a friend's residence in Victoria drinking and using cocaine. The following day she collected her young children and headed home to Nanaimo. When she started her journey that day at 12:30 pm her blood alcohol level was between 93 and 148 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. There was some indication that she may have consumed beer in her vehicle on the way home.

This issue of the Status Report examines: Alcohol ignition interlocks are reducing recidivism among drivers convicted of DUI in Washington, enhanced belt reminders can persuade motorists to buckle up without being relentless,  interior padding reduces fatal head injuries by 24 percent and a new government analysis concludes Teenage passenger death ra

I spent more than 25 years policing in British Columbia, dealt with many impaired drivers and cleaned up their aftermath. When the B.C. Government announced the Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP) program I was excited. Here was a chance to quickly deal a significant blow to those drivers who showed by their actions that they held other road users in no regard.

The Road Safety Monitor is an annual Canadian public opinion survey conducted by the Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF). These two documents contain the result of the 2011 survey on drinking and driving in Canada and the breakdown by region across the country.

I performed many duties in my policing career, investigator, collision analyst, breath testing technician and screening device operator/calibrator/instructor. I've seen first hand the damage that impaired drivers do to themselves and others on our highways. The duty I liked the least was notifying next of kin following a fatal collision.

TED Talks challenge fascinating thinkers and doers to give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes or less. Ramona Pierson was crossing the street when a drunk driver ran a red light and struck her in the crosswalk. She spent 18 months in a coma and then was placed in a senior citizens home to recover.