A group of bipartisan lawmakers wants to make it illegal to drive with a blood alcohol content level of .05%, instead of the current .08%.
Utah is the only state to lower the threshold, and federal safety officials say after the change, fatal crashes there dropped by nearly 20%.
“The year that Trevor was killed, there were 500 people killed in our nation under the age of six. And to think that one of them was my little boy and we could have prevented it if we had had the lower BAC,” she said. Gov. Jay Inslee supports the change, as does a bipartisan group of lawmakers alarmed that Washington just had the highest number of traffic deaths in 30 years.
DUI defense attorney Jon Fox said field sobriety tests are designed for .08, and won’t work for a .05 standard, when people often don’t feel impaired.
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