What happens if a person who has been drinking tries to start a car with Ignition Interlock?

If the alcohol level exceeds .05 the driver cannot start the car for five minutes. Two .05 or above readings in a three-hour period causes the 30 minute lockout. The data from the the breath tests are reported to the state.

DUI Most New Year's Eve Revelers Stayed Off Roads, Officials Say

Most New Year's Eve Revelers Stayed Off Roads, Officials Say: "Law enforcement officers think they found a way to keep people from starting off 2006 with a drunken-driving arrest. Officials focused on putting more officers on the streets and making the public more aware of their presence on New Year's Eve. Those two factors can make revelers think twice before getting behind the wheel after a night of drinking, Pinellas County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Jim Bordner said, making New Year's Eve drunken-driving incidences relatively low and resulting in no alcohol-related traffic fatalities in the Bay area."

DUI Tampa - Alcohol Monitors

South Florida judges use anklets to keep tabs on problem drinkers - : "An anklet that detects alcohol consumption 24 hours a day.

It has only been used a handful of times involving drunken-driving and domestic-violence cases since this summer, but the monitoring system shows promise. It can help provide greater scrutiny than random alcohol testing, advocates say. 'I've been pretty pleased about it,' said Palm Beach County Circuit Court Judge Charles Burton, who hears misdemeanor criminal cases such as DUI and domestic battery and has used the monitor in about half a dozen cases. Some judges say the monitoring system -- which tests a person's perspiration for signs of alcohol -- provides another tool for controlling defendants with alcohol problems. Judges routinely order drunken-driving defendants not to use alcohol, which can be difficult to enforce."

Tampa DUI Take a Cab or a Tow Truck

"In 2004, the Florida Highway Patrol reported that 33.5 percent of all fatalities caused by car crashes were alcohol related. So far this year, one in four car crashes resulting in death in Leon County were alcohol related, according to the Tallahassee Police Department.

Two programs designed to prevent folks who've had a little too much holiday cheer from getting behind the wheel are helping the statistics drop. The American Automobile Association and Budweiser's Tow to Go dispatches tow trucks to take tipsy car owners and their vehicles home, free of charge. Safe Ride, a service of Yellow Cab and Tri-Eagle Sales, allows bar and restaurant managers to use cabbies as designated drivers from 8 p.m. to 3 a.m.

In the past three years, both programs combined have kept more than 2,500 drunken drivers off the road.The Florida Highway Patrol Preliminary Fatality Report revealed that there were 37 deaths in some 29 crashes over the Thanksgiving weekend, three of which were alcohol related.

"Along with the combination of enforcement and education, the programs certainly do have an impact," said Lt. David Folsom, who supervises TPD's traffic unit. Both initiatives run through New Year's Day."

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