A WA bill would lower the legal driving limit to .05% BAC
If the legislation passes, Washington would be just the second state in the U.S. to amend its blood alcohol content limit.
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If the legislation passes, Washington would be just the second state in the U.S. to amend its blood alcohol content limit.
Dropping BAC to .05 just 1 of the measures
If you have spent any time behind the wheel since the pandemic began, you've surely noticed people driving more aggressively and way too fast. That correlates with a rise in traffic fatalities that last year reached levels not seen since the 1990s in Washington state and Oregon.
Washington lawmakers are debating possible new responses to surging traffic fatalities. And similar action is being considered by Oregon lawmakers in Salem.