Sherrod Brown, the U.S. Senator of Ohio, is reportedly calling for passage of the Roads Safe Act. This measure would fund a program for creating a device that would prohibited drivers who are intoxicated from being able to start their vehicles.
Brown spoke at Cleveland Police Headquarters, explaining that this bill would authorize $12 million in the annual funding for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety program for five years.
According to Brown, the funding for all this is going to be provided through the money that the federal government has appropriated for the road safety initiatives. This renders the bill cost neutral. Julie Legget is fully supporting this legislation. Legget is the executive director of the northeast Ohio chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
Legget says that drunk driving is now reaching epidemic proportions in Ohio. Ohio, has the third worst record in the nation reporting over 122 thousand drivers on the state roads with three or more DUIs. She feels it will not be difficult to create a technology that will successfully stop a car from starting if the driver is intoxicated. Brown states that gadgets like ignition locks can be both, obtrusive and expensive. This legislation is being passed with the main goal of making the new device smaller and less noticeable. This will allow parents to install it in the car of their teenage kids.
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