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Originally Posted by Ducay
You people are totally missing the point. You should realize that the 0.05 to 0.08 enforcement isn't aimed at directly preventing issues with people in that range, but rather to further deter people from drinking and driving at all. (Thus reducing the number of people who end driving over 0.08).
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That doesn't make any sense; according to the numbers posted above. The people driving above .16 are responsible for twice the fatalities as the people just over .08. A person who will drive after getting completely wasted won't be stopped by the legal limit being lowered.
I just don't see why we aren't going after the problem groups. 33% of all traffic fatalities are caused by people over .08; as opposed to 6% being cause by people under .08. And I would even hazzard a guess that on any given night there are more people on the road who are .01-.07 as opposed to over .08. Even if it is the same number of drivers; that's still 5 times as many fatalities.