MADD wants random police checks
Posted Jan 18, 2011 12:16 pm.
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When it comes to stopping impaired drivers, MADD Canada would like to see the ‘probable cause’ clause eliminated.
Right now, police can only test a suspected impaired driver if they have probable cause.
MADD says studies prove that if police were given the authority to test whomever, wherever, the number of deaths and injuries reported on Canadian roads would drop dramatically.
Only recently were Canadian laws changed that allowed police to charge drug-impaired drivers.
The C.E.O of MADD says the next step is to give police the power to test drivers, without having just cause first.
Andrew Murie tells 660News changing the law would make the roads much, much safer.
“It’s been shown in other countries you know, anywhere form 15 to 30 per cent immediate reduction of deaths and injuries,” says Murie.
Murie says statistics indicate a person will drive impaired at least 80 times before he or she is caught and convicted.
