Drunk Driving

Feds Push For Lower Alcohol Limits For Drivers

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:38:00 +0000

To curb drunken driving, the federal National Transportation Safety Board has voted to recommend that states tighten the legal limit for drivers' blood alcohol.

The threshold now for drunken driving is a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08. (The BAC equals alcohol divided by the volume of blood it's in.)

The NTSB would push for it to be lowered to 0.05, in line with the limits in countries such as Denmark, the Philippines and Switzerland.

How many drinks would it take to run afoul of the new limit?

Reese Witherspoon Apologizes For Her Behavior

Mark Memmott — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:38:00 +0000

Now, something completely unrelated to the heavy news of recent days:

"I clearly had one drink too many and I am deeply embarrassed about the things I said," actress Reese Witherspoon says in a statement sent to Entertainment Weekly and other news outlets about her arrest Friday in Atlanta.

As we reported Sunday

Supreme Court Backs Warrants For Blood Tests In DUI Cases

Nina Totenberg — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 23:10:00 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that police must generally obtain a warrant before subjecting a drunken-driving suspect to a blood test. The vote was 8-to-1, with Justice Clarence Thomas the lone dissenter.

Tyler McNeely was pulled over late at night after a state trooper observed him driving erratically. When McNeely refused to take a Breathalyzer test, the officer drove him to a local hospital and ordered blood drawn for an alcohol test.

Bill Increasing Penalties For Leaving Accident Scene Advances

Nathan Heffel — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:36:56 +0000

On Tuesday, members of the state House advanced a measure to increase penalties for leaving the scene of a car accident that involves serious injuries. And lawmakers say current law actually encourages drives to leave the scene.

100 Day of Heat DUI Crackdown Starts in Colorado

Deanna Garcia — Thu, 26 May 2011 22:22:58 +0000

Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer and the summer travel season. It’s also the start of an aggressive anti-drunk driving campaign in Colorado.