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Old 06-26-2008, 11:47 AM   #12
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I've heard of people getting charged blowing below the legal limit. I agree whole heartedly if you're impaired but below the stated limit, you should be charged. The way I see it is that if you blow over the limit you're charged regardless, if you blow under but still can't control your vehicle due to being impaired you should be charged.

Being drunk in a motorized wheel chair? If he/she needs the wheelchair then as long as someone's with them I see no problem with that. I don't think you can be driving 20 clicks bombed and not worry because you're in a wheelchair, but just because you're drunk and can't walk is no reason to charge someone for impaired driving.

On a somewhat related topic a doctor neighbour of mine was telling me that when she was in med school she read a study that showed that statistically the least amount of accidents occur when your blood alcohol content is 0.02. The only real hypothesis she gave was that you're more relaxed so there's less road rage, but they didn't actually know why this was.
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