1.   An Akita prefectural assembly member said the stricter penalties may show that Japan is catching up with other advanced nations in punishing impaired drivers.

2.   A national anti-drunk driving organization has given South Carolina low marks for the way it deals with impaired drivers, primarily due to a lack of tough laws.

3.   He felt strongly about drinking and driving, yet he was riding with an apparently impaired driver.

4.   He is an impaired driver and you are risking your life every time you hit the road with him.

5.   In Kansas, residents can write the state a letter about an impaired driver, then a doctor must determine whether a person is competent to drive.

6.   Randall Baselt, director of the Chemical Toxicology Institute, concluded that Allen was an impaired driver.

7.   The Border Patrol also might keep an impaired driver at a highway checkpoint until a Highway Patrol officer arrives, Ahr said.

8.   But the Center for Science in the Public Interest said it puts impaired drivers on the highway each afternoon.

9.   The legislation includes stiff new penalties for impaired drivers, unsafe truckers and motorists who ignore school bus signals.