A decade-old benchmark determining when a driver is legally drunk should be lowered in an effect to reduce alcohol- related car crashes that claimed 10,000 lives each year. The National Transportation Safety Board recommended that all 50 states lower the threshold from 0.08 blood- alcohol content to 0.05. The idea is part of a safety board initiative outline in a staff report and approve by the panel to eliminate drunk driving which accounts for a third of all road deaths."This is critical because impaired drivers remains one of the biggest killers in the united states", NTSB Chairman Debbie Hersmen said ahead of a vote by the panel on a staff report.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/14/us/ntsb-blood-alcohol/index.html?hpt=us_c1
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