Waynesbor DWI DUI Lawyer Bob Keefer: Virginia cited as one of the five toughest states on persons accused of DWI DUI

In a November, 2008 news conference, Mark V. Rosenker, National Transportation Safety Board’s acting chairman, said that half of the country’s 17,000 alcohol related deaths in 2007 involved hard core drunk drivers.

Rosenker did not explain that alcohol related did not mean caused by an intoxicated driver.

Rosenker did not explain that the government has tried to conceal the actual 2007 death toll of 6,000 people, including drunk drivers, killed by drunk drivers.

NTSB has recommended eleven measures to stop drunk driving including regular sobriety checkpoints, lowering the blood alcohol content for a second offense and limiting plea bargains in DWI cases.

Rosenker did not explain that sobriety checkpoints impinge upon the liberty of innocent people while being one third as effective in stopping drunk drivers as roving patrols.

Rosenker did not explain how lowering the blood alcohol content for second offenders was necessary to stop hard core drunk drivers who drive with high BACs.

Rosenker did not explain how the Courts would handle trials for all DWI defendants when common sense negotiations were prohibited.

Virginia is one of five states that have adopted enough of the steps to be endorsed by NTSB.

http://decp.org/documents/pdfs/WhatNew/DWI_Court_Hotsheet_December.pdf

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