Victims’ families speak out after deadly Seward Highway wreck
from the Anchorage Daily News:
The woman critically injured 13 days ago in a Seward Highway wreck blamed on a drunken driver is doing better but remains unconscious and doesn’t know that her fiance, who is also the father of her infant daughter, was killed, her family said Tuesday.
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Sen. Hollis French, D-Anch., chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the case presented a “horrific set of facts” and that lawmakers need to reexamine the books.
The Legislature last year approved a law requiring an ignition interlock device for everyone convicted of drunken driving beginning Jan. 1 this year, French said. The device makes it impossible to start a vehicle if the driver’s breath tests above a predetermined level. It is mandatory for 12 months for first offenses and longer for subsequent violations.
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