Nova Scotia doing well combatting drunk drivers

MADD Canada is giving Nova Scotia good marks for the province’s efforts against drinking and driving.

MADD’s released its annual report card rating the effectiveness of impaired driving laws in Canada’s provinces and territories.

Nova Scotia gets a fourth place ranking, while Ontario took top honours in MADD’s 2009 report, getting a grade of A-.

Nova Scotia was given a B grade.

Margaret Miller is MADD’s national president. She says Nova Scotia has done quite a bit to provide better legislation to combat drinking and driving.

“We have a zero blood alcohol content for the first five years of driving, it hasn’t been enacted yet but it is law. We have a  really good alcohol ignition interlock system,” said Miller. “There are a few things like that,  that the government has brought forward that are all measures that are really going to help with impaired driving deaths.”

She says the justice system needs to get tougher with those convicted of drunk driving. MADD will be watching with interest what happens to Terry Naugle when he is sentenced in January on charges including driving while impaired. Naugle has 20 previous convictions for drunk driving and five jail terms.

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