The Adams administration has joined a statewide push in Albany to lower the blood-alcohol limit for what's considered drunk driving.
NYC DOTThe Adams administration has joined a statewide push in Albany to lower the blood-alcohol limit for what’s considered drunk driving.
“Whether they are at 0.06 or 0.12 or 0.20, the consequences can be deadly,” the commissioner said at the rally on the state Capitol’s Million Dollar Staircase.according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Queens State Senator John Liu, the bill’s primary sponsor, says that lowering the threshold is meant to clarify the spirit of the state’s laws against inebriated driving: people should simply not drink at all if they intend to drive, instead of thinking they can safely consume one or two brewskis before getting behind the wheel.
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