Capito Co-Sponsors Bill For DUI Devices

• {Charleston, West Virginia}...Jan Withers, the national president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, was in Charleston Wednesday to announce support of a bill, co-sponsored by U.S. Representative Shelley Moore Capito, that would provide a kick-start for the National Highway Traffic Administration's Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety program. The program sponsors technologies to install optional devices in vehicles that would notify drivers if they were at or above the legal limit to drive, a blood alcohol content of .08 or less. If the driver gives a bad reading, then the vehicle's ignition would not start. Withers says the DADSS program moves closer to MADD's dream of a nation without drunk drivers. Withers says she would like to see the devices used in company vehicles, at first, or for parents' use to monitor teenage drivers. Withers' 15 year old daughter, Alisa, was killed by an underage drunk driver in 1992.