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Tuesday May 21 | WTVM

To combat drunk driving, NTSB wants tougher blood-alcohol limits

Seeking to toughen the allowable alcohol limit for drivers, the National Transportation Safety Board is calling on states to lower the legal blood alcohol content to 0.05 or lower from the current 0.08. The intent behind the proposed new standard is to cut down on the nearly 10,000 annual deaths related to alcohol-impaired driving.

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Fri May 17, 2013

CultureMap

New proposal could mean DWI arrest after one drink

KVUE - Exactly 25 years ago, a drunk driver hit a bus in Carrollton, Kentucky killing 27 people; most of them children.

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Wed May 15, 2013

WAVE-TV Louisville

Dozens pack emotional memorial 25 years after Carroll County bus crash

HARDIN COUNTY, KY Kentuckiana and even the nation paused to remember the deadliest drunk driving crash in our nation's history which happened in Kentuckiana 25 years ago Tuesday.

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Tue May 14, 2013

WFIE-TV Evansville

A Proposed Change to the Legal BAC Level

The National Transportation Safety Board announced that it is proposing to lower the legal blood alcohol limit for drivers from .08 to .05. The announcement came on the 25th anniversary of the deadliest alcohol related crash in American history.

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The Jackson Sun

Safety board calls for lower drunken-driving limit

States should reduce the level of blood-alcohol qualifying as drunken driving to .05 to reduce fatal crashes, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended Tuesday.

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