Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety urges you to support requiring ignition interlock devices (IID) for all convicted drunk driving offenders and making California’s IID law permanent.
Vote YES on Assembly Bill (AB) 366!
The Issue:
- Traffic crashes are a deadly and costly threat to California families and visitors that require urgent action.
- In 2023, 4,061 people lost their lives on California roads, a 31 percent increase since 2014.
- In 2023, drunk driving was a factor in 1,355 (one-third) of traffic fatalities in the state. That equates to almost four people killed each day due to drunk driving.
- Drunk driving fatalities in California increased 40 percent from 2019-2023.
- The Golden State has the second highest number of drunk driving fatalities in the nation.
- Traffic fatalities cost the state $29.1 billion each year equating to a per resident “crash tax” of $736 according to a 2019 analysis. When updated for inflation alone, in 2025, costs would equate to $36.7 billion and $929 respectively.
- California’s IID pilot program expires on December 31, 2025. If action is not taken California will be the only state without an IID law.
The Solution: Enact an All-Offender IID Law
- Under current law, a court may, but doesn’t have to, require an IID for a first-time offender. According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), IIDs prevented more than 30,500 attempts to drive drunk in California in 2023 alone. Expanding the law to require all first-time offenders to use an IID would help to curb drunk driving further.
- States that have adopted all-offender IID laws are saving lives, reducing injuries and preventing drunk driving recidivism. For example, when West Virginia adopted its IID program, recidivism was reduced by 77 percent among first time offenders.
- Americans strongly support IID use. Polling shows 69 to 88 percent support requiring an IID for all convicted DUI offenders, even for a first conviction.
- Moreover, 82 percent of offenders believe the IID was effective in preventing them from driving after drinking.
- Given its efficacy a large majority of states have enacted an all-offender IID law.
AB 366 Will Protect California Residents and Visitors to the Golden State and Keep Families Whole—Vote YES on AB 366!
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