Utterly ridiculous. All one has to do, is look at the (true) statistics on drunk driver accidents. Your typical accident-causing drunk has a blood alcohol level of OVER .15....nearly twice the legal limit. Most are over .20, where .30 is (usually) dead by alcohol poisoning. Many also, even after causing a serious accident, get a slap on the wrist....when they should absolutely lose their license.
The only reason states have a .08 level to begin with is NOT the real stats on drunk driving accidents, it is due to lobbying at the federal level by MADD...which made federal highway money unavailable to states with over a .08 limit.
The MADD crowd and this Austin Police chief are simply neo-Prohibitionists, nothing else.
I believe that if a person has had alcohol within the last 24 hrs of an accident, it is considered alcohol caused. The same way that lung cancer is caused by smoking, even if it wasn’t you smoking, or you had quit 20 years before. It is just a way to pad stats.
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We have a winner.
But if your family has enough influence and money, you can bury your car upside down in a tidal river, leaving a woman to drown, and be declared the 'Lion of the Senate'.