Alexa’s Bus helping to crack down on drunk drivers in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS – There is a special addition to the Kamloops RCMP traffic section on the road in the South Thompson this long weekend. The Mobile Road Safety Unit, or Alexa’s Bus as it’s called, will be helping the police catch impaired drivers.
Alexa Middelaer, 4, was feeding a horse at the side of the road when she was hit and killed by a drunk driver in Ladner in 2008. Her family channeled their grief by challenging the RCMP to reduce the number of impaired drivers on the road in B.C., according to a media release, and Alexa's Bus was the result.
The fully customized Winnebago is outfitted with all the equipment police need to collect evidence and process suspected drunk drivers at the roadside, including two holding cells.
It has the latest breath testing technology, mobile computer workstations, a hybrid diesel backup generator and solar charging system, a video surveillance system and is purple, Alexa’s favourite colour.
Cpl. Brian O'Callaghan, who heads up the RCMP’s traffic section, thinks Alexa’s Bus could prove useful at outdoor music festivals this summer.
To contact the reporter for this story, email Howard Alexander at halexander@infonews.ca or call 250-491-0331. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.
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inasmuch as drinking and driving is bad, the issue at hand is the definition of “drinking and driving”. government has legal authority [within reason-must be within limits of constitution] to define and redefine words and their authority. for instance common understanding of the word “accident” is a unintentional collision. However bureaucrats have used word perversion to legally redefine “accident” as “a intentional collision” Much the same as bureaucrats redefine the phrase “drinking and driving” from someone who has a blood alcohol level of.08 to now someone who has.05, and it it goes even further to even any amount of alcohol admitted consumed no mater the amount or how long ago it was consumed to mean the individual is impaired and deserving of a 24 hour suspension and immediate roadside seizer of vehicle. The problem is this legislation goes against something called “The Principles of Fundamental Justice”.The Principles of Fundamental Justice:1 Laws shall not be arbitrary.2 Void for Vagueness.3 Overbreadth4 Requirement of Mens Reas.5 Shocks the conscience.6 Right to silence.7 Rejected principles.BC drinking driving legislation has already been found in breach of several of these principles, though no bureaucrat has ever been held responsible, no of the victims of these crimes and the damages they suffered have been addressed. what’s worse is this legislation is before the Supreme court of Canada right his very minute in two different challenges bc bureaucrats still think they are gods that can dictate without impunity. Its only natural if not one is held responsible for dreaming up unconstitutional legislation, like any bully if not stopped only gets worse as its ego grows.The truly sad thing is they use RCMP to enforce these unconstitutional legislation that has horrible collateral damages to citizens as the legislation arbitrarily, void of vagueness in a excessive overbreadth in the face of lack of Mens Reas shocks the conscience. and if one tries to enforce his right to silence, the mindless terminators are instructed to automatically consider them guilty of impairment on the spot in a shameless display of offence of all of the principles of justice.To make matters worse those very same bureaucrats subrogate grass roots organizations such as MADD and incorporate them to twist them into a propaganda machine instead of a community consciousness campaign.Alexa’s bus is based on a fraud; Alexa was not killed by a drunk driver insomuch as she was killed by ignorant engineers who miss built the road with giant speed bumps [cause its all the fashion of engineers these days] that launched the drivers car off the road and unfortunately ran over Alexa. I shit you not, go read the appeal application that was arbitrarily denied so the truth would be hidden that it was governments fault and their lack of accountability that killed Alexa. True the driver admitted to drinking two glasses of wine, [over several hours] and the initial reading on the side of the road showed.08, BUT the road side screening devices were later found inaccurate and [I think it was a supreme court judgement] that they had to be tested at the detachment, [hence Alex’s Bus-so they can do road side retests]. The Accused blood reading was not true, and she was not retested, so hence she was not drunk. but all that has to stay hidden because the death of an Angel so sweet and innocent can’t be found to be the fault of government, no for propaganda purposes Alexa’s death has to be caused by a drunk to justify government’s unconstitutional legislation. For if government EVER admits to a mistake its admission would open a class action suit for damages and worse, government would have to admit it is not a god.No one considers the collateral damages these immediate roadside suspension have on good people, it tears families apart, lost jobs, broken marriages, humiliated, as a result people now live in fear, thus society has been turned into a fear based society.Drunk drivers will always be there because its a disease that can’t be legislated out, same as the gun registry did not stop the criminals from using guns. I am not saying we shouldn’t have laws, on the contrary, the previous.08 was perfect; it allowed a drink or to without being impaired, it was fair and within the Principles of Fundamental Justice.
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