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Company comes up with $3 intoxication test
Posted: Jul 12, 2011 11:01 AM by Greg Boyce
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) - A new Iowa company is offering a breath test service that could help keep people from driving drunk. Mark Ross, of Bettendorf, told the Iowa City Press-Citizen that his Tipping Point employees are providing the service in Iowa City, Davenport and other cities.
Ross says Tipping Point is partnering with Lifeloc Technologies, a Colorado company that counts police departments among buyers of its breath test units.
Tipping Point tests a person for $3. Ross says that's far cheaper than a drunken-driving conviction. He says some bars have welcomed Tipping Point, but others haven't.
Iowa City Police Sgt. Denise Brotherton says people react differently at various levels of intoxication and a person's intoxication level can fluctuate, too. He says that's why police use several indicators to determine whether someone is impaired.
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