Drunk Driving: Why is MADD Among Critics of Lower US Alcohol Limit? Ryan Lenora Brown - The Christian Science Monitor
go to original May 22, 2013

Jeff Glor reports on the National Transportation Safety Board's new suggestions for lowering the blood alcohol limit by nearly half - and the objections they're receiving from the beverage and hospitality industries. (PigMine4)

On its surface, the recommendation seems simple: reduce the legal limit for blood-alcohol content (BAC), and drunken-driving fatalities will fall, too.

But nearly as soon as the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) made that proposal last week, a chorus of dissent began. Lower the BAC limit, critics argued, and you criminalize responsible social drinkers – and do little to make the roads safer.

And the opposition came from some unlikely corners.

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