This State Is About to Get Nation’s Toughest DUI Limit
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In good news for ride-sharing services, cabs, and maybe your better judgment, Utah will be ringing in the New Year with the nation’s stingiest limit for blood-alcohol content.
The law, which goes into effect on Dec. 30 to thwart all those who thought they might get in one last boozier Auld Lange Syne, lowers the national standard of .08% to .05%.
Though increased public awareness of drunk driving has been around for decades, alcohol is still involved in around a third of traffic fatalities, reports the Washington Post, at around 29% of all traffic deaths nationwide.
Utah is already the nation’s stingiest in those numbers, clocking in at 19%. But the state doesn’t appear at all smug, with the Department of Public Safety saying that
“Despite decades of public campaigns and other efforts to discourage driving after drinking, survey and observational data show that many people continue to do so.”
The .08% standard has been around since former President Clinton signed it into law in 2000.
Edited from Newser.
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You just had to get in that last little dig about the Cardinals didn’t you? It’s all good though because they beat the Dodgers ass.
Do you know you wrote that twice Dudette? Twice you did, and yes, the Cards beat the Dodger’s ass. Yes. Twice I said it 🙂
I don’t know what happened there but it’s all good because you and I got to see the Dodgers got their asses kicked, twice.. well now three times 🙂
Excellent point Jess. Many years ago I was a frequent violator of this law but I stopped to the point that If I am going to drink I simply stay where I am. If I am home I stay there. If I am traveling I stay in my hotel. I am fortunate that I never hurt anyone during my days of heavy drinking and I will make sure I don’t now or in the future. One thing That I have learned is that since I had my heart surgery and had to be put on a blood thinner it doesn’t take very much to get me tipsy anymore. I am definitely a cheap drunk.
I can still drink a fifth of Johnny and barely feel it. I also do not go anywhere if drinking. I won’t drive if I’ve had more than one beer. Times do change.
This is why we pull from a hat, the name of the person in our group who will be DD** and if they had been pulled the very last time the name goes back in the hat for someone else, so it’s not the same person twice in a row unless they want to be. I haven’t been drinking much these past few months so I’ve been dd more often than not for my group. Don’t drink and drive people it’s not worth it at all.
**designated driver
I refused the DD role one night before we were all going to watch the Cardinals kick some Dodger ass at Busch stadium, and drinking beer, lots and lots of it, was the rule. Everyone got really mad at me, and I didn’t care. Oh yeah! I almost forgot the most important part: Cards won!! Yay 🙂
You just had to get in that last little dig about the Cardinals didn’t you? It’s all good though because they beat the Dodgers ass.