When New Jersey was getting ready to lower the limit, as a reporter I asked the State Police to show me the study that indicated the need. The spokesman laughed and said there was no study. There was no evidence that alcohol-related deaths would decline by dropping the limit.
A woman ran in front of guy's car in New York City the other day and was killed. He had the light and wasn't speeding and had a reading of 0.78, two-tenths under. The Daily News wrote him up as a beer-guzzling blah-blah-blah. That guy had four beers at the Mets game so you're really pushing your luck if you think you can drink four beers, drive and be sure you're under the limit.
BTW, no word from the cops if the woman was commiting suicide by oncoming car. They couldn't charge the guy with DUI so they hit him with driving while impaired, the same charge Fedorov got when the cops pulled him over all whacked out and he was under the limit.
0.078
At 0.78 he'd be very much dead.
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