Mike Koneigs : I needed SR22 car insurance until last yearsince I had a DUI conviction. I dread the holiday season since I cannot stop myself. What are Sobriety Checkpoints? How many soberity points are there in a city?

Response : With the approach of the holiday season the chances of having good time and getting involved in DUI convictions increase. It also increases the risk for auto accidents and claims and hence the vigilance increases. I am sure that no one wants to be involved in an accident, be called a high risk driver, pay SR22 car insurance and so you would be taking precautions at your end.

The law enforcement authority has sobriety checkpoints which are a tool for preventing drunk driving and auto accidents. This team of law enforcement officers would stop vehicles or a specific sequence of motorist, at a predetermined location so that Sobriety Checkpoints. The main goal of this exercise is to increase the public alertness and awareness of being arrested for driving while impaired DWI or drunk driving, and detecting drivers who are impaired and arrest them. These operations as they are named as sobriety checkpoints are conducted by 4-6 officers. They would be mobile and will not continue the check at the same strategic point but change their location. Normally people would inform one another about the sobriety post and so this team is always mobile. Since soberity points are mobile one can never know how many points there are in a city.

This operation is designed to be set up in 15 minutes, taken down, and moved to another location. By completing this, motorists under the influence may see the sobriety checkpoint at one location and avoid this area in fear of being arrested. If the motorists later travel another road, they may encounter another checkpoint and later on another checkpoint on another roadway. Statistics from the Tennessee Checkpoint Operation have proven this a more effective way of discouraging motorists under the influence of drugs and alcohol to drive.

Soberity check points are useful for the SR22 car insurance since check points prevent you from driving while drunk and thus saves you from auto accidents and high car insurance rates. The non-drinkers are also helped since this will prevent them from high auto insurance by preventing auto insurance accidents since the chances of them being in an auto accident with a DWI driver are also high.
Stay safe and avoid drunk driving.
Happy Thanks giving.

Ross Goldberg: Is it true that the police can ask for a breathalyzer tests in Arizonian? I have already been involved in a DUI once and do not want it again since my SR22 insurance was very high.
Response : A good question – luckily so far USA this has not been implemented. In Canada the DUI legislation may allow random breathalyzer tests as per the latest news on Sept. 26, 2009. Canada’s federal department of justice may expand impaired driving legislation to allow police to administer roadside breath tests randomly, regardless of whether or not officers suspect the driver has been drinking, Canwest News Service reported. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said that the department is mulling a proposed amendment to the Criminal Code during a keynote address at the Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Canada annual conference.
 However, debate is swirling around whether or not the random testing would constitute a violation of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, in that the charter guarantees against unreasonable search and seizure, Canada.com reported.
Currently, unless a driver admits to drinking, the police currently need visible signs of impairment in order to demand a roadside breath test on a screening device, according to a July 2009, MADD Canada report, Random Breath Testing: A Review of the Evidence.
“American research indicates that using these enforcement techniques, the police failed to detect more than 60% of legally impaired drivers stopped at sobriety checkpoints,” the report said.
Random breath testing has been implemented in countries such as Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
“In Queensland, Australia, random breath testing was estimated to have reduced total fatal crashes by 35% between 1988 and 1992, preventing an estimated 789 fatal crashes in that period,” the report said.

Thus from this report and news you will understand that it might not be long for the law to be implemented in Canada and than the law coming across the border.

I would advice you not to worry but start taking precautions like the putting the steering lock. Also the good news on the DUI car insurance is that certain specialized insurers offer you cheap affordable SR22 car insurance quotes. Please shop online.

Greg : The drunk driving offences or impared are high and now even women offenders are increasing what is the goverment doing?

Response : DUI offenders are increasing and they have to take SR22 car insurance because of the high risk levels. Insuance companies, goverment and the charity organizations like MADD are also taking some measures to help the drunk drivers and to stop the accidents. Here are some of the steps taken:

1) Enforce the minimum drinking age in all states.

2) Require that convicted impaired drivers be subject to alcohol testing prior to reinstatement of their driver’s license (This would be effective in getting the chronic impaired driver off the roads.)

3) Enact administrative license revocation laws in all states allowing arresting police officers to automatically suspend a driver’s license if the driver is found to exceed the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) limit or if they refuse to take a breath test

4) Set up a graduated license system where a newly licensed driver is only given certain driving privileges. As the driver matures, these privileges would increase.

5) Suspend the license of underage drinkers found driving with any measurable level of alcohol in their blood. If a driver is under 21, any alcohol in the bloodstream is illegal.

6) Increase roadside sobriety checkpoints. These checkpoints would catch drivers in the act and be an effective deterrent.

This would certainly help in decreasing the accidents and also help in getting cheap sr22 insurance quotes since the number of accidents would decrease and also the repeated offenses would not be there. follow the regulations and compare sr22 car insurance quote.