Fewer than half of drunken drivers subject to New York’s year-old ignition interlock provision are actually installing the devices on their motor vehicles as defense attorneys advise clients to transfer title rather than pay the cost of installing and maintaining the equipment.
Interlocks were ordered in 8,967 cases but installed in only 3,971, or 44 percent, between Aug. 15, when the provision requiring judges to order anyone convicted of felony or misdemeanor drunken driving to install and maintain an interlock device in any vehicle they own or operate for six months took effect, and March 31, according to the state Division of Criminal Justice Services. More recent data is not available.
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