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* USA - Tougher blood-alcohol limits
* DC - To combat drunk driving, NTSB wants tougher blood-alcohol limits
(Photo: A driver drunk) 
Washington,DC,USA -The Car Connection, by Suzanne Kane -May 15, 2013: -- Seeking to toughen the allowable alcohol limit for drivers, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is calling on states to lower the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) to 0.05 or lower from the current 0.08... The intent behind the proposed new standard is to cut down on the nearly 10,000 annual deaths related to alcohol-impaired driving... The NTSB board said that one-third of all traffic fatalities today are related to alcohol. It contends that the risk of a crash is lowered by half if the recommended lower level of 0.05 BAC is enforced... Following the 1982 recommendation by the NTSB to lower the BAC to 0.08 from 0.10, in 1983, Utah became the first state to do so. It took until 2004 before all states fell in line... Other NTSB recommendations include increasing penalties for first and repeat offenders, mandating that convicted drunk drivers use an ignition interlock device that requires them to blow into a device to show they are sober before they can start the car, using special DWI courts to handle offenders, and more technology, such as “sniffing flashlights” that can be used by police officers to detect the odor of alcohol...
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