Guardian Ignition Interlock
The Original Ignition Interlock System
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) has been running a personal breathalyzer program all year. Now that the year has almost concluded, they’ve got some interesting data to share. The program was designed by CDOT for first time drunk drivers in Colorado. The participants were given a personal breathalyzer and tracked, with the goal of …
Police put a lot of effort into making an arrest, and the last thing they want is for a drunk driver they stopped, assessed, and arrested to slip through the net of the law and evade their drunk driving conviction. It happens all the time, and after a court handed down the decision that Oklahoma’s …
When you have an ignition interlock installed on your vehicle you expect that a few things will happen. You expect that you’ll need to drive sober and provide an alcohol-free breath sample in order to continue driving, and you expect that you’ll have to blow into your ignition interlock if you’re required to do a …
Police take samples of breath to determine how drunk someone is while driving, but have you ever wondered how invasive a breathalyzer test really is? Is it something you’d find embarrassing or painful? Most people would probably say no, but just like everything in life, there are opponents to the act of submitting a blood …
If you’ve never been arrested for drunk driving and the police stop you because they suspect you of it, you’re going to have to quickly learn a whole new set of terms. Someone who has never driven drunk before may have no idea what makes up a field sobriety test or what the difference is …
Everyone knows how dangerous drunk driving is. If you noticed someone seemed intoxicated and they wanted to get into a car and drive away, you probably wouldn’t get into a car with them. But what if that drunk person was about to drink and fly and they were behind the controls of an airplane while …
You’ve probably been to a bar or two that had an in-bar breathalyzer. The devices hang on walls, require a payment to use, and are meant to provide patrons a simplified way to check if they are over the legal limit of .08. They should never been the deciding factor in whether someone drinks and …
If police suspect you of drunk driving in Colorado and you’re going to refuse the breathalyzer, you might as well bring your A game. At least that’s what a driver must have thought when he was arrested for drinking and driving recently. Instead of complying, he stated he had diplomatic immunity that meant he didn’t …
With all of the publicity drunk driving receives right now on social media, the web, via public service announcements, and from groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), it’s easy to forget that the fight against drunk driving has been going on for over a century. Here’s a quick look at drunk driving history: London, …
Look up high in the sky and what do you see? The moon, the stars, maybe a planet or two if you notice something shining brightly, and if you had a space telescope, you’d see a Comet named Lovejoy that apparently has a problem with drinking and driving. Comet Lovejoy is cruising through the Solar …
