Research shows that blood alcohol levels as low as .02 can affect driving ability—prompting a call to lower the national limit of .08 and save lives.
Roughly 100 countries around the world set a blood alcohol content limit at .05g/100 ml of blood, or lower. “Virtually everyone is impaired to some extent with driving performance at .05 BAC,” one expert says. In the U.S., the limit is .08.Almost exactly 38 years ago, Linda Thompson spoke to her three-year-old son Trevor for the last time. He and his sister Katie were visiting family two hours south of their home in Spokane, Washington, and they talked excitedly about joining a town parade.
federal blood alcohol content limit for a driver from .1 to .08 g/100 ml of blood in the early 2000s. Laboratory testing and highway safety data have long shown that by .05, every driver is impaired. Now, data from Utah, the one state that has lowered its limit to .05, shows that the change can save lives when implemented domestically.
“Legislators don’t really put much faith in studies done in other countries,” Fell says. But now that a state has made the change, policy makers are also discounting Utah’s trends, arguing the state’s Mormon-heavy population makes it too much of an outlier to follow.
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