Ignition locking device targets drunk drivers
On July 1, Minnesota will expand statewide a voluntary program that encourages repeat drunk driving offenders to use an ignition interlock on their vehicle.
Tracy Toomey, a University of Minnesota expert on impaired driving, is a big fan of ignition interlock devices. She and many others working to reduce death and injury from drunk driving say ignition interlock should be standard equipment on vehicles, the way airbags are today.
"It is crazy that we have people that (are) four times, five times, six times and higher in terms of being repeat offenders," she Minnesota Public Radio. "We need to get these people off the road."
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