Minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructure and Environment, VVD) in The Hague. Photo ANP / Martijn Beekman
If the power minister Melanie Schultz van Haegen (Infrastructure and Environment, VVD) is the alcohol lock is included in the criminal law. She goes to see Minister Ard van der Steur of Justice (VVD) or a judge this measure, which should avoid all drivers once again caught with too much drink go behind the wheel can be imposed by a court.
Schultz said today in the TV show WNL On Sunday . A government proposal to be there for the summer. The Council of State ruled earlier that the CBR (CBR) no alcohol lock may impose more drink drivers. Such a lock with breathalyzer built into cars. Drivers must before they can start the car blow into the device. If they have too much, it will not start.
From December 2011 to March this year could get a driver mounted an alcohol interlock in his car as he with an excessively high blood alcohol level – between 1.3 and 1.8 and more than 1 in novice drivers – caught . The lock had to stay at least two years. Late last year there were legal problems. The Hague court ruled in September that justice motorists who have an alcohol interlock may not also sue even criminal.
The measure could be seen according to the court as a criminal measure and therefore clashes prosecution with the principle that a person not two once for the same offense may be prosecuted
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