Commercial brokers in Nova Scotia may soon be required to provide some unexpected, but necessary, advice to clients belonging to driving schools and academies: in order to instruct students, they must first ensure that they are sober.
This is because the province’s transportation minister, Geoff MacLellan’s, has proposed legislative amendments that would require motorists responsible for new drivers cannot exceed a .05 blood limit, according to Metro News.
If enacted, instructors caught with a blood alcohol content over .05 must surrender their driver`s license for a minimum of seven days. Prior to this proposal, there were no regulations mandating that driving educators had to be sober when coaching a student.
MacLellan said that the new changes were introduced as a result of “concerns that were raised when changes were made to the province’s graduated drivers licensing program in the fall of 2014.”
Recent events indicate that the occurrence of a drunk driver’s ed teacher may not be as far-fetched as it initially seems. Last month, a Fort Myers, FL high school teacher was arrested when he steered his truck into a ditch while inebriated. At the time, he told police that a man named “Josh” had been driving the car, but ran away before they arrived at the scene.
Deborah Larson of Whitehall, WI might top that, however. Last year, Larson was arrested on her way to pick up students after a police officer noticed that she was “swerving and crossing the yellow line” while operating student driver car on a Sunday morning, according to WEAU 13 News.
