It's natural to assume that the .08 drunk driving limit in the U.S. is some kind of global standard, but we're much higher than most.
There are certain conversations that we in the alcohol writing industry are always understandably reluctant to have. The most universal is of course direct acknowledgement of the various negative health effects of choosing to drink all forms of alcohol. The aversion to that conversation is a pretty common societal phenomenon in general–the majority of people drink at leastalcohol , and have for centuries of human history.
A BAC limit, for the purposes of what we refer to collectively as intoxication or “drunk driving” offenses, is determined on the state level. And as recently as the 1990s, there was still a good deal of state-to-state variation on official BAC limits, with some states having limits as high as .1 BAC.
So, how many lives is that? Well, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states that for 2022, the most recent year on record,That implies that reducing the national BAC limit to .05 could safe an estimated 1,500 American lives per year. In the abstract, perhaps that doesn’t sound like too many, but that is more than 7 fully loaded Boeing 757s of people whose lives could theoretically be saved on a yearly basis.
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