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U.s. Safety Board Proposes Tougher Drunk-Driving Threshold


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[b]Washington (CNN)[/b] -- A decade-old benchmark for determining when a driver is legally drunk should be lowered in an effort to reduce alcohol-related car crashes that claim about 10,000 lives each year, U.S. safety investigators said on Tuesday.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial]
The National Transportation Safety Board recommended that all 50 states lower the threshold from 0.08 blood-alcohol content (BAC) to 0.05.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial]
The idea is part of a safety board initiative outlined in a staff report and approved by the panel to eliminate drunk driving, which accounts for about a third of all road deaths.[/font][/color][color=#000000][font=arial]
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[img]http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view2/3815383/brahmi-look-o.gif[/img] 0.05 ah inka okka beer tagithe chalu kada

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