To Curb Drunk Driving, More States Consider .05 Limit on Blood Alcohol Level

The push to lower the legal threshold for what constitutes driving under the influence of alcohol to .05 is growing in states. 'Zero tolerance is what we’re working toward.'

Alisa McMorris holds a photograph of her son Andrew, whom she lost to a drunken driver when he was 12 years old.ALBANY, N. Y.—Alisa McMorris totes a wagon filled with leaflets and a picture of her son Andrew, who was killed by a drunken driver in 2018, as she makes the rounds in the state capitol.

The 49-year-old Long Island woman, a member of the advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving, is pressing legislators to pass a new state law that she says could decrease such tragedies: lowering the legal threshold for what constitutes driving under the influence of alcohol.

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