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...bill increases the minimum jail termfor second offenders from seven to 14 days andproposes a 6-month mandatory jail term for drunkdrivers who cause serious bodily injury. No suchprovision currently exists, said Calia...
Calia said that under the new bill if someone refused to take the test it would be admitted as evidence in court. Currently, if someone refuses to take the test, it may not be mentioned in the court case...
...penalties imposed for refusing to take the breathalyzer test will act as an incentive for people to take the test and thus make it easier to convict a person of drunk driving. "Before, it was harder to convict a person if he would not take the test. The new bill would close that loophole," Calia said...
...Safe Roads Bill comes after many years of combatting drunken drivers, said officials. Robbins said that state and local police have organized extra patrols and road blocks inorder to "get the drunk driver off the road beforehe kills someone." There was a 12 percent drop offatalities attributed to drunk drivers between1984 and '85, Robbins said...
...Society is saying we're sick of carnage on thehighways caused by drunken drivers, especially themultiple offenders," Robbins said. He said that ifapproved, the new bill will make it easier toconvict chronic offenders. "With the new bill,Massachusetts will become one of the tougheststates in the nation to drunken drivers," he said."What we're going after now is the hard-coremultiple offender...