April 17, 2016 • ALPR,
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NEW YORK,
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TEXAS,
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WASHINGTON The California Senate recently took up a bill that would let police officers use oral fluid drug screening tests to check motorists for the presence of drugs in their systems. The proposed test is administered with a handheld device that uses an oral swab to check for the presence of a variety of controlled substances […]
August 16, 2015 • BAC,
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DUI,
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INSURANCE,
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SAFETY,
TRAFFIC STOP You may have seen this video of an attorney using a novel approach to navigate his way through a DUI roadblock. Essentially he refuses to have any personal contact with the officers by putting his papers in a plastic bag and hanging them out a mostly rolled-up car window. The officers wave him through without […]
December 22, 2013 • BLOOD WITHDRAWAL,
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TEXAS Nothing says Happy Holidays like getting caught up in a roadblock followed by one of NHTSA’s elves asking you for a “voluntary” blood sample. We originally told you about this ongoing roadside “research project” a few weeks back (NMA E-Newsletter #255: Dangerous Business). Since then, it seems that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) […]
December 1, 2013 • ALABAMA,
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TRAFFIC STOP By John Bowman, NMA Communications Director “It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings (Part 1: The Fellowship of the Ring) I love this quote, and […]
Buried within the approximately 600 pages of legislation enacted in the recent federal transportation law are two provisions to encourage the installation of ignition interlock devices (IIDs) into more vehicles. (Current interlocks are in-vehicle …
