National Safety Transportation Board Takes Bold Steps to Eliminate Drunk Driving Accidents

The National Transportation Safety Board voted unanimously on May 14, 2013 to issue bold recommendations to help the US eliminate alcohol-impaired driving. “Courtesy: National Transportation Safety Board”

Safety Report on Eliminating Impaired Driving

On May 14, 2013, the 25th anniversary of our nation’s deadliest drunk-driving crash, which killed 24 children and three adults in Carrollton, Ky., the NTSB’s five-member board voted unanimously to issue bold recommendations to help the United States reach zero and eliminate alcohol-impaired driving.

Bold steps are needed: On average, every hour, one person dies in a crash involving a drunk driver and 20 more people are injured, including three with debilitating injuries. That adds up quickly to yearly totals of nearly 10,000 deaths, 27,000 lives forever altered and another 146,000 injured.

The safety report and recommendations culminate a year-long effort by the NTSB to thoroughly examine this problem and develop a set of targeted interventions. The recommendations include:

• Reduce state BAC limits from 0.08 to 0.05 or lower
• Increase use of high-visibility enforcement
• Develop and deploy in-vehicle detection technology
• Require ignition interlocks for all offenders
• Improve use of administrative license actions
• Target and address repeat offenders
• Reinforce use and effectiveness of DWI courts

*Courtesy: National Transportation Safety Board

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