The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has found that the percentage of people who refuse to provide breath samples when arrested for Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) varies considerably across States, and this creates a concern in the criminal prosecution of DWI cases. This Research Note provides an overview of the DWI arrest process including blood alcohol concentration (BAC) testing, presents data on breath test refusal rates, and discusses one approach - the use of warrants and blood draws - that several States have implemented in an effort to reduce their refusal rates.
This report describes the design and results of a project aimed at estimating the rate that drivers refuse to submit to a legally-requested breath alc...
United States. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
2012-08-01 | NHTSA BSR Traffic Tech
Abstract:
There are typically about 1.4 million DWI (driving while impaired) arrests each year in the United States. An officer’s request to a driver for a br...
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