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NTSB Wants To Lower The Blood Alcohol Limit For Driving

Mothers Against Drunk Driving has been successful over the past 20 years in getting the legal blood alcohol content driving limit reduced in all states to .08, but now the National Transportation Safety Board has issued a recommendation to all states to reduce that threshold even further to .05. The NTSB cited that all other countries in the industrialized world use the .05 impairment standard and the United States should follow suit.

The MADD association spent an extensive amount of time and financial resources lobbying to achieve the standard for drunk driving laws reduced to the current level. Although the NTSB has just released this recommendation, MADD has not been eager to sign on just yet. The lobbying association still depends on donations from within each state for continuing funding and feel they have been relatively successful already, especially with recent seat belt legislation being upgraded to a primary offense in most states.

The NTSB has little regard for any professional commercial organizations that will provide... ...read full post

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Sobering Thoughts For Those Who Serve Alcohol

What if you knew a friend was contemplating suicide? Even worse, what if the way in which he intended to take his life probably would result in the d34eath of innocent people as well.

None of us would hesitate to intercede to prevent this terrible tragedy. Yet millions of Americans will celebrate this holiday season with alcohol and allow themselves or their friends to get behind the wheel of a car while impaired, inebriated or intoxicated.

Consequently, the automobile becomes a weapon of death and destruction. Thousands of Americans will be injured or killed in alcohol-related accidents before, or shortly after, the New Year.

As a personal injury attorney, I have seen the devastating results created by the lethal combination of alcohol consumption and driving. I know people who have lost body parts and loved ones due to drink driving. Statistical data is one thing, but seeing the senseless carnage first hand is a sobering experience. Many innocent drivers, whose only crime was being in the wrong place at the wrong time, have lost their lives or have become seriously injured. Parents and children are taken instantly from their families without the time to... ...read full post

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Drunk Driving Victims Need An Experienced Attorney

If you are unfortunate enough to have been caught up in an incident involving someone who was drunk behind the wheel then it is always going to be an idea to consider contacting a drunk driving attorney in order to see what kind of damages you may be awarded. They are the people who are the absolute experts in this particular kind of case so it is best to use their knowledge to your advantage.

There is a reasonable chance you have picked up some kind of an injury which can of course be either physical or indeed mental and in some cases both. When this happens you really should consider trying to find out how to go about a civil lawsuit in order to claim compensation from the guilty party.

This has to be done through the civil courts because clearly it is a private issue and not governed by any laws by which they may be prosecuted resulting in any kind of criminal conviction. By getting this particular kind of lawyer you are going to be hiring someone who has dealt with numerous cases and used to getting damages awarded to their client.

This does of course have to be dealt... ...read full post

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NTSB Wants To Lower The Blood Alcohol Limit For Driving

Sobering Thoughts For Those Who Serve Alcohol

Drunk Driving Victims Need An Experienced Attorney

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