Wednesday, May 15, 2013

NTSB Recommends Lowering Legal DUI Standard

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Major changes could be in store for drinking and driving legislation in West Virginia.

Tuesday the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that states lower the threshold for drunken driving to levels that have substantially reduced alcohol-related traffic deaths in other countries.

Currently the DUI legal limit in West Virginia is .08 .

The NTSB recommended lowering the limit to .05.

The last time the NTSB lowered the legal limit, it took 21 years for all 50 states to adopt it.