Posted on 02/27/2023 4:23:17 PM PST by matt04
Connecticut has an alcohol problem when it comes to driving.
In 2020, 40-percent of all crashes involved drinking.
Lawmakers are deciding whether to lower the legal blood alcohol limit.
Only one other state, Utah, has done this. New York and a few others are considering it.
The transportation committee heard strong testimony on why this will save lives.
“To be frank, Connecticut has a drunk driving problem,” said Garrett Eucalitto, Connecticut Department of Transportation Commissioner.
Eucalitto said what we are doing isn’t working.
He supports legislation to lower the legal blood alcohol level from .08 to .05.
That same message is coming from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
“In 2020, over 11,000 people were killed in crashes involving alcohol impaired drivers in the United States,” said Thomas Chapman, Chairman of the NTSB.
...
Dustin Church was 18 when he was killed by a drunk driver. His father said it’s positive step.
“Anytime you can education by bringing it to the forefront and making people more aware it has the potential to make things better,” said Skip Church, Dustin’s father.
(Excerpt) Read more at wfsb.com ...
Playing with the legal blood alcohol limit is exactly what they have been doing over and over and over since the 1980s. It doesn't work.
Its those .06 &.07 drivers that are killing everyone.
So how does lowering the limit change a damn thing? Once they are drunk they are not measuring how drunk they are.
Stupid laws that don’t work already don’t need doubling down on.
In my state, if they pinch you, it's easily 15 to 20 thousand - for starters.
I will get the attention of other drivers if I see they have defective equipment on their vehicles.
Low-hanging fruit for the DUI revenooers.
Washington state and others are also proposing to do this.
I can think there are a lot of good $$$$ reasons,
but none of them have to do with road safety
Double or triple the fine for an illegal over the alcohol limit. With no bail.
Mo’ money mo’ money mo’ money...fo’ us to blow & steal!
See post #6. Supposedly this is about safety. Instead it is about revenue. LOL
How many of those crashes involve illegal immigrants?
The “article” only gives one number, the number of alcohol related vehicle accidents in 2020. No year over year comparison, and nothing particular to CT.
States charge folks for hooking up those blowers to the car. The lower the limit, the more of those they get to “sell”.
Those numbers might be inconvenient.
Bingo
If you walk by a bar and do not even stop in you will blow a .05.
Politicians are rarely here to help.
Cha-ching....
If the voters in a state are ok with it it sounds like a good idea to me.
You can drink that much and drive perfectly well. If you obey all the laws, the police won’t have any reason to stop you and check.
If they would prohibit sober people from driving after dark you wouldn’t be getting in the way of those of us that had a few.
Tying up cops and having them pulled off the streets for hours handling arrests and jail processing because of non-threats, keeps them from focusing on the problem, not to mention the destroyed lives.
When I grew up I didn’t know we had drunk driving laws in Houston, we knew they could arrest you for dangerous driving, but they weren’t interested in arresting you just for smelling of booze as long as you seemed OK.
How many people know when their license plate light burns out?
How many routine minor traffic stops have to be turned into serious drunk driving charges just because now they can smell that you’ve had a drink?
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