It starts out like many other weekend party nights, but can result in some pretty hefty consequences. You have been drinking alcohol or smoking pot and while driving home, you are stopped by the police.

If you are charged with impaired driving, do you realize that even before you go to court, you automatically lose your license for three months? The fingerprints and photographs the police take will be retained in their computers for anyone to access.

Your car insurance rates will skyrocket and your employment may be jeopardized. If you are a first time offender, and you are convicted of impaired driving you automatically lose your license for a period of one year. You will also have to pay a fine of anywhere from six hundred to a thousand dollars. If this is your second, third or subsequent conviction, you will lose your license for anywhere from three years to life. Minimal mandatory jail time of anywhere from fourteen to ninety days is also imposed.

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