A bill under consideration in Washington would make it the second state in the country to lower the legal limit for a driver’s blood alcohol content from 0.08% to 0.05%.
FILE - House Speaker Pro Tem John Lovick, D-Mill Creek, speaks Jan. 14, 2019, on the opening day of the new session of the Washington Legislature at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. A bill under consideration in Washington state would make it the second state in the country to lower the legal limit for a driver's blood alcohol content from 0.08% to 0.05%. Former state trooper and state Sen. Lovick is sponsoring the bill.
“Our roads are not as safe as they should be, and they are definitely not as safe as they could be,” Lovick said. “I see driving behavior that is beyond anything I could have imagined when I started as a state trooper over 40 years ago ... It is very clear to me that drunk driving is impacting the safety of our communities, and it is time that we do something.”
Josh McDonald, executive director of the Washington Wine Institute, spoke against the bill this week, saying a change to 0.05% blood alcohol content could turn a "reasonable, modern consumption experience, for both the customer and winery, into a very serious concern,” KUOWWashington is the second-largest wine producing state with more than 1,000 wineries, according to the Washington State Wine Commission.
Utah’s Legislature voted in 2017 to decrease the legal limit to 0.05% despite similar concerns. Since it went into effect, the number of crashes and fatalities have fallen even though drivers logged more miles, according torecommended last year
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