Neavada Bill Could Stop Online Classes for DUI and Victim’s Impact
July 17th, 2009 at 09:02pm Under DUI Law
Nevada Statute NRS 484.3797 allows DUI schooling or Victim Impact Panels via the internet. AB 209 would reverse that.As usual, many lobbyist and politicians hungry for the lime light all jumped on board this one, democrats wanting to appear to be tough on crime and the bleeding hearts telling their tragic stories.The actuality of the situation is that Nevada DMV has it’s own online course, as does a whole host of other websites. And, as if the DUI law as written doesn’t deplete the offenders bank account of lots of his/her money, the DUI schools further deplete it. And, if you took out the DUI school being online, you’d have the added cost of commuting to these schools. No one asked people who could barely afford their gas now, how they felt about bill AB 209. Everyone wants to demonize DUI. At no point has any science been presented to show that DUI contributes to driving impairment. In fact, the actual numbers of drivers in accidents and fatalities, shows DUI as one of the lower causes, if you could even say it’s a cause. The number one cause of accident and death in a vehicle is driver distraction: cell phone; car radio; looking elsewhere. Now if the leading cause of accident and death is due to driver distraction, does it stand to reason that maybe DUI isn’t even the cause of accident and death in those cases at all? Let’s take a look at something. When alcohol is determined to be present at the scene of a car incident, be it accident or anything, the police and lawmakers shift the blame squarely on the alcohol. ALL further investigation into the cause of the incident ceases immediately. So all of those thousands of DUI cases, which might have been masking some other cause, have completely and utterly halted any other findings. Think of all of the car recalls, or driver safety recalls that occur in a year. Is it possible that maybe we could discover those issues faster, if DUI was not thought to be the end of the investigation?Let’s go back to driver distraction. If DUI supresses any and all further investigation into the actual cause of the accident, then isn’t it possible that driver distraction might be the actual cause in a majority of those cases as well? However, there is so much money to be made under DUI laws that no one will change it. No one will go out of their way to investigate it further.Online schools for dui and victim impact is another cheap source of massive income for the city, state and local business that no bill will defeat it. Luckily for those that are living barely above water, this bill won’t defeat it. They won’t have to shell out extra gas money, and possibly starve, on top of all the fees they are paying for this DUI.