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Drunk-driving limit should be lowered to .05, NTSB says
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal accident investigators recommended Tuesday that states cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half, matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries. The National...Tags: Highway Transportation, Transportation Industry, Washington, DC
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BRIEF: NTSB recommends states lower blood-alcohol limit to 0.05
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThe National Transportation Safety Board today recommended that states lower the threshold for drunken driving from the current 0.08 blood-alcohol level to 0.05. The board also recommended that states require DUI offenders to have ignition interlock...Tags: Transportation Industry, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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U.S. agency backs lower blood alcohol limit for drivers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top transportation safety agency voted on Tuesday to recommend a lower blood alcohol limit for drivers, advancing its campaign to cut down on drinking-related road deaths through a stricter definition of impairment. At a...
Tags: Transportation Industry, AAA, Transportation, Road Transportation
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Lowering blood alcohol limit for drinking and driving no big deal
Lowering the legal blood alcohol limit for drivers would be no big deal. Except for those who can’t handle their liquor before climbing behind the wheel. The National Transportation Safety Board has dropped the equivalent of a Saké bomb on...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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UPDATE 3-Boeing resumes deliveries of 787 Dreamliners
Reuters(Adds share close, cost estimates) By Alwyn Scott NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - Boeing Co resumed deliveries of its high-tech 787 Dreamliner jet on Tuesday, ending a period of nearly four months in which it was unable to provide new planes to customers...Tags: Japan, Transportation Industry, United Air Lines, Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing Co.
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Prom driver DUI charge sparks push for harsher penalties
— The drunken driving charge of a suburban prom-night limousine bus driver has quickly led to a proposal to toughen punishment in such cases. Under the measure, drivers could be charged with a felony for driving under the influence and carrying...
Tags: Tom Cross, Executive Branch, Transportation Industry, Government, Mental Health
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NTSB recommends lowering the legal limit
staff writer, @damichellegThe National Transportation Safety Board is asking states to cut the legal blood alcohol level nearly in half. The board voted Tuesday to recommend that states lower the rate from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent. In Pennsylvania the rate was lowered to...Tags: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Methamphetamine (drug), Somerset County (Pennsylvania), Highway Transportation, Heroin
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Coast Guard hearing on Shell drill-rig grounding set to start May 20
Anchorage Daily NewsA formal Coast Guard hearing investigating the circumstances of the grounding of Royal Dutch Shell's drilling rig, the Kulluk, begins at noon May 20 in Anchorage. The hearing will take place in the Anchorage Assembly chambers at Loussac Library and is...Tags: Transportation Industry, Noble Drilling Corporation, Royal Dutch Shell Plc
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Distracted driving death data often slim
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- Seventeen-year-old Kelsey Raffaele's last words were over a cell phone to a friend: "I'm going to crash!" The car she was driving had clipped a snow bank and spun into oncoming traffic, where it was T-boned by an SUV. She died at a...Tags: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Transportation Accidents, Transportation Industry, Accidental Death, Motorvehicle Accidents
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Coast Guard Sets Hearing for Kulluk Grounding
Channel 2 NewsThe Coast Guard’s investigation into the New Year’s Eve grounding of the Kulluk, a Shell drilling rig, remains ongoing as authorities prepare hearings in Anchorage next week. The Coast Guard wrote in an email that the hearing will be a formal...Tags: Transportation Industry, Petroleum Industry
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EDITORIAL: Drinking even a little still kills a lot of people
Charleston Daily Mail, W.Va.There are no two ways about it: People do drive in an increasingly distracted manner. Cellphones and navigation systems with screens and plummy voices take attention from the road. Add alcohol to the picture, even a little bit, and all of this...Tags: Transportation Industry, Government, National Government, Car Safety Tips and Advice
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EDITORIAL: The menace on the roads
Daily Camera, Boulder, Colo.A few recent tragedies have spurred conversations about dangerous habits behind the wheel, and their terrible consequences. On Saturday, Boulder cyclist Michel Van Duym was struck and killed by a SUV driver in Lyons. The driver, Patrick Ward, is...Tags: Judges, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Transportation Industry, Safety of Citizens, Government
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