Should DUI Alcohol Limit Be Lowered to .05 Percent?
The National Transportation Safety Board recommends reducing the limit. Some say it would save lives. Others say it's unreasonable.
One drink could be the standard for drunken driving – at least for some people if the National Transporation Safety Board has its way. On Tuesday, the NTSB recommended states lower the blood-alcohol threshold for driving under the influence from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent. What do you think? Is the proposal reasonable? About 10,000 deaths a year are related to drunken driving. The NTSB says the lower limit would save 500 to 800 lives a year. Officials at the American Beverage Institute called the proposal "ludicrous." It said the average woman could reach the 0.05 percent limit by having one drink. Internationally, only a handful of countries, including Canada, the United States and England, have a BAC limit of .08 while most of the …
Jeff
9:10 am on Wednesday, May 22, 2013
You are absolutely correct. Most BAC's are already well over the legal limit. This is simply a suggestion by politicians that they are tough on crime without really solving a problem. It's like the death penalty...the fact that there is a death penalty does nothing to reduce the murder rate...and removing it won't cause the murder rate to jump. It's just a political ploy. more ›