by inno-admin | Feb 1, 2018 | alcohol-fueled offenses, BAC limit, drunk driving, dui, DUI per se, dui tactics, DWI Courts, Getting to zero, impaired driving, Legislation & Public Policy, NHTSA, NTSB
Report Calls for Higher Taxes, Lower BAC to Reduce DWI Deaths In January the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released “Getting to zero alcohol-impaired driving fatalities: A comprehensive approach to a persistent problem.” The consensus...
by inno-admin | May 31, 2017 | DUI costs, DWI enforcement, Legislation & Public Policy, madd, Missouri DUIs, Mothers Against Drunk Drivers, NTSB, sobriety checkpoints
Last week Missouri’s legislature sent a bill to the governor’s desk that could make sobriety checkpoints in Missouri a thing of the past. House Bill 4 reduces annual state funding for DWI checkpoints from $20 million down to $1. The bill’s supporters say the reduction...
by inno-admin | Apr 25, 2017 | alcohol-fueled offenses, Drunk & Impaired Driving, drunk driving, dui, dui tactics, impaired driving, NTSB, place of last drink
An increasing number of counties and states have launched databases to track where DUI offenders downed their last drink before getting behind the wheel, and supporters say the information is helping communities reduce drunk driving. During an arrest or crash...
by inno-admin | Mar 7, 2017 | drunk driving, drunk driving deaths, drunk driving limit, dui, dui tactics, First-time DUI Offenders, ignition interlock, impaired driving, legal BAC, Legislation & Public Policy, NTSB
The current BAC limit for drivers in all 50 states is 0.08, but if some lawmakers get their way, that could soon change. Since 2013, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has called on states to reduce the legal BAC for drivers from 0.08 to 0.05. The agency...
