Abstract: A biometric safety and security system (10) that is designed to prevent a person that is inebriated or that is not assigned the use of a particular vehicle ignition key (170) from starting the vehicle. The system (10) utilizes an enclosure (50) that houses an electronics circuit (12) that includes a microcontroller (14), a fingerprint scanner (26), a speech verifier (28), a breath analyzer (29) and the ignition key (170) which is normally retracted into the enclosure (50). To extract the key (170) a person must verify their identity by means of the fingerprint scanner (26) and/or the speech verifier (28), and also verify their sobriety by means of the breath analyzer (29). If the person's identity and sobriety are verified a signal is sent to the microcontroller (14) where a signal is produced that activates a motor interface (32), that operates a d-c motor (34) that extracts the key from the enclosure (50).