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The legal limit for drivers’ blood alcohol content should drop to .05% from its current level of .08%, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended this week. Lowering the limit at which a driver is subject to arrest “could reasonably be expected to have a broad deterrent effect, thereby reducing the risk of injuries and fatalities from crashes associated with impaired driving,” the NTSB asserts in its report. About 1.4 million people are arrested for driving under the influence each year. …

Suspicion of driving under the influence is not grounds in and of itself for police to draw blood from a suspect without first acquiring a warrant, the Supreme Court ruled today. In Missouri v. McNeely, the Court upheld a Missouri State Supreme Court ruling that police could only take a blood test without a warrant in an emergency or under exigent circumstances. A person’s blood alcohol content naturally dropping over time does not count. “The question presented here is whether the …

A Hawaii man who stupidly posted a video on the Internet of himself drinking and driving is facing open container and other charges, though he has dodged DUI charges so far. Richard Godbehere Jr., 53, used a lighter to pop the cap on a Beck’s bottle in a video that he posted to LiveLeak.com, proclaiming, “This is celebration time!” The video is titled, “Let’s Go Driving & Drinking!” “I’m so happy to be drinking and driving,” Godbehere says in the …

Two friends who were thrown out of a bar for being drunk and then drove separate cars that crushed a construction worker were ordered to pay $5 million to the victim’s two children. The drivers who caused the freak accident, Jeffrey Dupree and Tracie Nininger, were drunk when they were told to leave a restaurant in downtown Roanoke, Va. They got into separate vehicles, a Hummer H3 and a Chevy Avalanche. As they both drove past a construction site where …

A Dallas strip club has been blamed for a fatal drunk driving accident that killed a young woman in March 2011. A jury awarded the woman’s family $10 million. After a night at the Spearmint Rhino Gentlemen’s Club, Eric Brent Crutchfield left the club around 2 a.m. heavily intoxicated, jumped into his illegally souped-up Ford truck and ran over 23-year-old Kasey McKenzie, who was walking through the parking lot. Her parents, Gary and Karen, brought a wrongful death civil suit …