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"MADD's biggest victory on this front was a nationwide blood-alcohol threshold of .08, down from .10. But when two-thirds of alcohol-related traffic fatalities involve blood-alcohol levels of .14 and above, and the average fatal accident occurs at .17, this move doesn't make much sense."

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"Sure enough, after former President Clinton signed .08 into law in 2000, drunk driving fatalities began to inch upward again — after two decades of decline..."

When the blood alcohol content level for DWI was higher, people ad a pretty good idea how many beers they could drink before they exceeded the limit, whether it was three, four, or whatever, depending on their sex and weight. Now people get popped when they've hardly had anything to drink. Dropping the level from .08% to .10% did not save lives, in fact, drunk driving fatalities went up. I can't help but wonder if people are seeing the legal levels as being so low that they aren't even trying to moderate their alcohol intake before driving. Maybe a lot of people figure they are going to be over the limit anyway so they might as well really be over the limit.