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A sober approach to drunk driving
In its new report on how to reduce drunken driving deaths, the National Transportation Safety Board states its goal in the title: "Reaching Zero." The agency thinks it is irreproachable to try to ensure that no one ever dies in an alcohol-related...
Tags: Drunk Driving, Transportation Industry, National Transportation Safety Board
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Reader Panel: Lowering the drunken-driving limit
Today’s question: Federal safety regulators have called on states to lower the drunken-driving limits from .08 blood-alcohol content level to at least .05. What do you think of the idea? What do you see as the positives and negatives? And where do...Tags: Abusive Behavior
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Blowing the limit: Move to lower blood-alcohol content threshold has pros, cons
Bristol Herald Courier, Va.A federal safety commission wants states to get tougher on alcohol-related crashes and fatalities by lowering a blood-alcohol content threshold that has changed only twice in 35 years. One local lawmaker says changing the current .08 level to .05...Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Virginia General Assembly, Bristol (Bristol, Virginia)
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Applause: Kudos to: Artie Davies, former Folsom city clerk
The Sacramento BeeKudos to: Artie Davies, former Folsom city clerk Accomplishment: On her 100th birthday, lauded by elected leaders with commendations for a lifetime of civic work. Details: Davies served as president of the Folsom Historical Society and was city...Tags: Drunk Driving, The Happiest News!
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San Jose Mercury News Mr. Roadshow column
San Jose Mercury NewsQ Mothers Against Drunk Driving, or MADD, has been inundated with inquiries about lowering the legal blood alcohol limit for drunken driving from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent, which is the legal limit in much of Europe and which last week was proposed...Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Drunk Driving, Transportation Accidents, Transportation Industry
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Sherburne County felony sentencings
St. Cloud Times, Minn.Sentences handed down in Sherburne County: October Jason William Underwood, 40; felon convicted of crime of violence -- firearm violation; sentenced to 60 months in prison, stayed 15 years on conditions including a chemical dependency evaluation and...Tags: Justice System, Fines, Theft, Criminals, Trials
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EDITORIAL: We Can Decrease Highway Deaths ��� If We Want To
Times Record, Fort Smith, Ark.What exactly is the acceptable death rate on American highways? That's a rather blunt way to ask a question that most of us don't like to consider but that the National Transportation Safety Board is tasked with answering. We know things like slower...Tags: Drunk Driving, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Transportation Industry, National Transportation Safety Board, Highway Transportation
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Some driving rights restored to woman imprisoned 10 years after DUI crash killed boy, 14
The BladeAfter Terri Camp Kruse killed a 14-year-old boy in a drunken-driving crash in 1993, she was sent to prison for 10 years and banned from driving ever again. On Friday, Ottawa County Common Pleas Judge Bruce Winters lifted that ban, granting Kruse limited...Tags: Justice System, Accidental Death, Lawyers, Judges, Prosecution
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Former UM student to serve three years prison for DUI death
Miami HeraldFormer university student Ivanna Villanueva sobbed Friday as she accepted a three-year prison sentence for a drunken driving crash that killed a grandmother on her way home from work. The tears kept flowing when relatives of the victim, Eyder Ayala,...Tags: University of Miami, Justice System, The Miami Herald, Prosecution, Murder
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County MADD backs lower DUI limit, but not waiting for change.
Jacksonville Journal-Courier, Ill.Although the National Transportation Safety Board is pushing for a national move to lower the legal blood alcohol content limit for driving to 0.05 percent. But some locally question how effective such a move might be in keeping drunken drivers off...Tags: Drunk Driving, Transportation Industry, National Transportation Safety Board
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EDITORIAL: New DUI proposal ignites anger, debate
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, TupeloA proposed nationwide lowering of the legal alcohol driving limit from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent raised the ire from the usual sectors this week when the idea was publicized by the National Transportation Safety Board. The liquor and beverage...Tags: Transportation, Beverage Industry, POLITICO LLC, U.S. Congress, Highway Transportation
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Should the legal limit for drinking and driving be lowered?
A federal agency recommends lowering the blood alcohol limit for drivers from 0.08 percent to at least 0.05 percent. Reporters Peter Hall and Colby Itkowitz asked supporters and opponents about their views. YES: The NTSB argues the legal limit should be...
Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Drunk Driving, Transportation Accidents, Criminals, Transportation Industry
May 23, 2013
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May 15, 2013
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