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BCTV News Hour Access - Drunk Drivers 1976
About this film
An investigative news segment for BCTV News Hour weekend series, Community Access with Margit Nance, broadcast during the weekend news hour show on September 26, 1976. The piece explores drunk driving in Vancouver, British Columbia. Explores how the Vancouver Police Department define impaired driving and why so, use of roadside suspensions for drivers not legally impaired by blowing 0.08% blood alcohol level or more. Discussion of public attitudes to drunk driving as “not really a crime,” a socially acceptable activity despite costs to taxpayers, automobile accidents, and legal costs, fines, prison sentences, and criminal record consequences for offenders. Changes to the Criminal Code in May 1976 to more substantially punish those convicted for first, second, or third offences. Shot in Gastown neighborhood of Vancouver, Vancouver Police Department detachment where a breathalyzer test is administered, and at Alouette River Correctional Unit in Maple Ridge, BC (today the Alouette Correctional Facility for Women). Interviewed or featured in the piece: Constable Roger Jacobsen, Vancouver Police Department; Jim (James) Wiltshire, impaired driver; Keith Libby, defense lawyer; Ken Sherman…
Directors & creators
Margit Nance for BCTV
Subjects
impaired driving, Vancouver Police Department, British Columbia, Margit Nance, BCTV, BCTV News Hour, BCTV Access
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