Question by Tony: Should any quantity of alcohol whatsoever be illegal to drive and the legal limit for driving lowered to 0.00?
Dont you want lives saved? They arent doing enough to go after these drunk drivers on the roads. Its still legal to drive at up to 0.08 and thats buzzed! It used to be 0.10! What do you think of this?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1269589/Nurses-complete-ban-drinking-alcohol-driving.html
NO ONE SHOULD DRINK ANY ALCOHOL BEFORE DRIVING!
IF YOU WANNA DRIVE, DONT DRINK!
please. I seen enough car wrecks and lives destroyed from this. I want it to be as safe as possible since a very large percentage of deadly car accidents are from alcohol
The law should be STRICTER on this.
http://media.komonews.com/images/091215_I90_crash.jpg
ya like that?
Maybe it should be even stricter where if any drunk driver is caught, he can face life in prison or capital punishment!
Something has gotta happen to stop this. its not strict enough for drunk drivers. They get away with murder and destroy lives.
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Answer by J_Rotten
Then, how would I get around?
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No.
.08 is low enough.
Zero won’t work. Lots of things contain traces of alcohol which will show up in a blood test…mouthwashes, various capsules which use alcohol as a solvent, extracts used in cooking…none are normally used in quantities such as to have any psychological effect, but they WILL show up.
Having been scammed by crooked, scum bag police officers in a predatory city in Arizona, namely Mesa, where the filth were willing to “cook” suspects to obtain fake readings and pull all manner of forgery and fraud, I am aware this would give criminal elements in what is laughingly called “law enforcement” in corrupt little sewers like that far more leverage than such monsters should ever be allowed. In short, sooner or later, these slime maggots would arrest virtually everyone, just to advance their scummy agenda and pad their portfolios. In Mesa, this was called “scalps on your belt”, and a law like that would play right into the hands of such professional crooks.
It’s been proven that someone at .08 is capable of operating a motor vehicle safely. In fact, I have seen no credible evidence of lowering it from .10. A person at .08 is less impaired then someone that worked a 16 hour shift. There is nothing wrong with having a glass or two of wine and getting behind the wheel, so no, you are wrong.
In fact, I would dare say lowering the limit causes accidents. There should be stricter laws for those that are in the .15 and above. But because we throw people in jail for .09, we lump them in with the people that blow a .20. They get the same punishment, and the .20 person is on the street sooner to re offend.
Crooked cops would love that.
The problem with America is that it want to go after drunk driving so much, but it won’t offer any mass transit options that are realistic to prevent it. It’s all a sham.
Lowering the limit only gets votes from suckers. Raising penalties for drunk driving gets results.
With a 0.00 limit, you will STILL have alcoholics on the road, drunk. Put them in Jail and…uhm, they dont drive. .08 seems fair. I know a college town nearby where it is .02, the town makes a LOT of money on fines from students who tasted a beer at a party.
I do not drink alcohol at all and never will, even if illegal people will continue to drive and drink
The laws should be more strict at .08.
If the FIRST OFFENSE had mandatory jail time, a $1,000 fine, 3 points on your driving record, and then 30 days of ankle strap duty after you get out of jail, I think that would be enough of a deterrent that there would be a huge drop in the amount of drunk driving offenses.
If the second offense carried all of the consequences of the first offense (only twice the jail time and a twice bigger fine, this being the second offense and all), PLUS losing your license for 5 years, and then the ankle strap thing for the first 90 days after you get out of jail, PLUS a breathalyzer in your car for the first year after you get your license back, I think that would also reduce drastically the amount of drunk driving offenses … but that’s just me.
We don’t need to lower the legal limit. We need to up the penalty … WAY up it.
No. What if someone cooked with wine and you didn’t know?
Here’s the thing-if someone is driving drunk, what exactly have they done wrong? If they hit someone, that’s a crime because it does damage. If they kill someone, that’s a crime because it harms a person. But by simply driving drunk they have not actually caused any damage to anyone. When prosecuting people for drunk driving you are prosecuting people for potential harm/damage that they have not actually committed-that is, punishing an innocent person. I think that punishing potential crimes is ludicrous enough to begin with, so why take it any farther than it already has gone?
I think your probably 15. because the legal limit is insanely low. That’s like one beer.
Luckily your opinion doesnt matter at all so….yea.
Each state is different. In SC there are graduated fines for refusing to submit a breath sample, to blowing .08 – .15, and then from .15 and up. As for the residual alcohol left in someone’s mouth altering the reading, that is very unlikely. by the time someone is arrested, the officer has to wait for a tow truck unless someone stands by, the person is transported to the jail, waits the mandatory 20 min observation period, and then blows, there isn’t the chance of mouth wash effecting the results. within 5-10 minutes of spraying mint spray in your mouth the ethyl alcohol in it will evaporate. the machines only pick up alcohol and not drugs.
First of all tired drivers kill more people than drunks do and i’ve yet to see anybody getting hysterical over that little fact of life .
Second of all your draconian premise has a huge flaw in it : it assumes that all drivers have the same skill level and as such given an equal amount alcohol their driving skills will be effected equally …..and it’s simply not true.
If some 18 year old 250 lb high school football player that has had his DL for 4 months has 3 long neck Buds in an hour he will have a BAC of 0.032 and because of his inexperience his ability to drive competently might be impaired.
If I who is also 250 lbs But has driven 1,000,000+ miles over the past 40 years had 3 long neck Buds in an hour it wouldn’t effect my ability to drive at all.
Since our skill levels are vastly different why should we be treated equally ?
Btw 1> M.A.D.D. cooks their numbers to justify their cause so read their data with a cynical eye .