44 - Wednesday, April 12, 1989 - North Shore News

DRINKING. DRIVING COUNTERATTACK

Roadcheck blitz
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NEWS photo Cindy Bellamy

THE NORTH Shore Youth CounterAttack Battle of the Bands is
back, April 13, 7 p.m., at the Centennial Theatre in North Vancouver.
Handswerth, Seycove, Carson Graham, Collingwood and Sutheriand
high school bands will be competing for the title of Hottest North
Shore Band. The program is part of the CounterAttack program to
create increased awareness about drinking and driving and graduation.
Tickets are $5 and are available from a North Shore high school or at

the door.

Drinking and driving costs

THE FACTS about drinking and
driving in B.C. are sobering. This
is what you face when driving
while impaired:

© You will lose your driving privi-
leges for one year upon conviction
for a first offense. You could also
go to jail for up to six months and
pay a fine up to $2,000.

© You will go to jail for 14 days to
one year if you’re convicted a se-
cond time. The maximum jail term
is five years if the Crown proceeds
on an indictable offence.

* ICBC will not cover the cost of
tepairing or replacing your vehicle
if you cause an accident while im-
paired.

® ICBC can seek to recover from
you the cost of your victims’
claims if you injure or kill some-

one as the result of driving while
impaired.

* You could spend up to 10 years
in jail and lose your driving privi-
leges for up to 10 years if you in-
jure someone when driving im-
paired.

® You could spend up to 14 years
in prison and lose your licence for
10 years if you are guilty of im-
paired driving causing death.

*® You will have a permanent crim-
inal record if you’re convicted of
driving while impaired. This could
keep you out of some countries or
professions.

*® You have a 90 per cent chance of
being convicted if you're charged
with impaired driving. One third
of the people sentenced to a B.C.
prison are there for drinking and
driving offences.

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BETWEEN APRIL 13 and May 4, the police
throughout British Columbia will stop about 200,000
motorists in a spring CounterAttack drinking-driving
roadcheck blitz.

It is evident over the years, that the Christmas
CounterAtlack campaigns continue to reduce drink-
ing-driving accidents during the holiday season. The
1988-89 campaign marked the fifth year in a row that
roadcheck activities broke records, with more vehicles
checked and proportionally fewer drinking-driving
charges being laid.

The same winning combination of public education,
police enforcement and community support is being
applied to this spring campaign.

Motorists who drink and drive will be caught. And
they should realize that the government has made

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drinking-driving penalties even more severe.

In addition to a $300 to $2,000 fine and up to six
months in jail on a first offence, the government has
increased the minimum prohibition from driving by
100 per cent — from six months to one year. The
penalty for driving while prohibited involves an
automatic jail sentence.

Spring CounterAttack and the increased driving
prohibition are only the beginning of the govern-
ment’s renewed initiatives to deter drinking drivers.
The CounterAttack budget has been increased by 180
per cent to over $1 million in order to extend public
education and assist the police. As well, the newly
formed Traffic Safety Directorate, under the solicitor
general, will be considering a range of proposals to
reduce this tragic and costly crime.

than your

licence, your job and your self-respect. It could also cost
you your freedom. So please. For your sake and the sake
of your passengers, don't drink and drive.

SPRING COUNTERATTACK ROAD CHECKS - APRIL 13 - MAY 4

CICBC

DRINKING DRIVING
COUNTERATTACK

A program of the
Government o
British Columbia