Montana Drinking And Driving Problems

Montana has had enough of bad behavior coming from drinking and driving. Its tolerance to driving while drinking is finally coming to and end. The reputation of Montana has been a place where you could open a beer anytime your wanted to while you were driving.

The state came under pressure from the federal government in 2005, but before then it was legal to drink and drive in many places. During that time before 2005, there wasn't even a speed limit on rural roadway or major highways.

The death of a Highway Patrol trooper Michael Haynes who was killed in a head on collision after a bartender served the other driver 13 drinks over a 31/2 hours period. A judge presiding over that case threw out the plea deal against the bartender and order mandatory jail time. The Old West drinking and driving is finally retreating. Judges are no longer accepting lenient plea deals, and many law-enforcement leaders are finding new ways to keep track of repeat DUI offenders. The repeat DUI offenders have been shuttled in and out of the systems, with one department keeping track of them.

The Legislature in Montana had a hard time passing a ban of open containers of booze a few years ago. In some small towns bars still offer cocktails to go. Now the Legislature is promising tougher laws.

The many roads in Montana are isolated and there is no public transportation. That has been the excuse of many of residents of not wanting to enforce speed limits or drinking while driving. They say they want the wide-open space like the old west. In the past instead of praising public-safety office for keeping their highways safe, legislators have berated them for bothering drivers if they stop them for DUI

Montana led all states in 2008 in alcohol-related traffic fatalities on per miles traveled according to the National highway Traffic Safety Administration. In the year of 2008 Montana had 229 traffic deaths with a population around 1 million. Compare that with Rhode Island, with about the same population it had 65 deaths.

The time as come for people in Montana to say enough is enough. Judges are giving out stiffer sentences; the attorney general is launching a pilot program in Helena to force DUI offenders to do daily testing for alcohol use, at their own expense. Other lawmakers who meet every other year hope to take the program statewide in 2011.

Thank goodness the people in Montana have finally woke up to not tolerant anyone that drinks and drives.



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