One BC based lawyer thinks it may be time to put more safety measures in place for professional drivers.

After a Kelowna bus driver was handed an impaired driving ticket at around 1:30 in the morning on Sunday February 9, Acumen Law’s Kyla Lee says these kinds of incidents happen more often than we might think.

“It’s odd, but it also I think, points to something that we really should be doing as a protection of the public issue. With anybody who is a professional driver in the province of British Columbia, we should be requiring that those commercial vehicles like big rigs or buses, anything like that should have an interlock device installed in them.”

Lee says it would mean these incidents can’t happen. “Putting [an interlock device] in those vehicles would protect so many people and would eliminate the vehicles that pose the largest risk on the roadways because of their size. And it’s a common sense thing because these people are driving in a professional capacity they have a much lower privacy interest.”

Lee says despite the rarity of the events, making sure people are sober before they drive could save lives.

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