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Should the legal limit for drinking and driving be lowered?
A federal agency recommends lowering the blood alcohol limit for drivers from 0.08 percent to at least 0.05 percent. Reporters Peter Hall and Colby Itkowitz asked supporters and opponents about their views. YES: The NTSB argues the legal limit should be...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Transportation Accidents, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Drunk Driving, Business
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Federal agency says lowering legal limit could cut DUI deaths
Even moderate drinking before driving could become illegal if a federal safety panel's recommendation Tuesday is enacted eventually by the states. The National Transportation Safety Board recommended that states cut their thresholds for drunken driving...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Drunk Driving, Politics, Highway Transportation, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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NTSB backs lower blood alcohol limit for drivers
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsFederal accident investigators recommended Tuesday that states cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half, matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries. The National Transportation Safety Board said...Tags: Transportation Industry, Highway Transportation
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Proposal to drop legal drinking limit gets mixed reviews
WDBJ7 Multimedia JournalistThe National Transportation Safety Board announced that it wants to lower the number of deaths caused by drunk driving by lowering the legal drinking limit in the United States. Federal accident investigators proposed dropping the blood alcohol...Tags: Transportation Industry
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Amateur airplane builders aren't deterred by fatal crash
Wings stood off to one side. The propeller lay in a carton. But the main part of Carl Kesselring's pet project was clearly recognizable as an airplane in progress. "I don't have fear of getting in an airplane," he said, standing in a hangar in...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Medical Research, Chesapeake (Chesapeake, Virginia), Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), IBM
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U.S. agency backs lower blood alcohol limit for drivers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top transportation safety agency voted on Tuesday to recommend a lower blood alcohol limit for drivers, advancing its campaign to cut down on drinking-related road deaths through a stricter definition of impairment. At a...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Travel, AAA, Transportation, Road Transportation
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Lowering blood alcohol limit for drinking and driving no big deal
Lowering the legal blood alcohol limit for drivers would be no big deal. Except for those who can’t handle their liquor before climbing behind the wheel. The National Transportation Safety Board has dropped the equivalent of a Saké bomb on...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Car Safety Tips and Advice, Crime, Law and Justice
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UPDATE 3-Boeing resumes deliveries of 787 Dreamliners
Reuters(Adds share close, cost estimates) By Alwyn Scott NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - Boeing Co resumed deliveries of its high-tech 787 Dreamliner jet on Tuesday, ending a period of nearly four months in which it was unable to provide new planes to customers...Tags: Transportation Industry, United Air Lines, Earnings Forecasts, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Industry
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Boeing resumes deliveries of 787 Dreamliners
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Boeing Co resumed deliveries of its high-tech 787 Dreamliner jet on Tuesday, ending a period of nearly four months in which it was unable to provide new planes to customers because of safety concerns about the battery system. The...Tags: Transportation Industry, United Air Lines, Earnings Forecasts, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Industry
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Prom driver DUI charge sparks push for harsher penalties
— The drunken driving charge of a suburban prom-night limousine bus driver has quickly led to a proposal to toughen punishment in such cases. Under the measure, drivers could be charged with a felony for driving under the influence and carrying...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Drunk Driving, Trials, Politics, Prisons
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NTSB recommends lowering the legal limit
staff writer, @damichellegThe National Transportation Safety Board is asking states to cut the legal blood alcohol level nearly in half. The board voted Tuesday to recommend that states lower the rate from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent. In Pennsylvania the rate was lowered to...Tags: Transportation Industry, Somerset County (Pennsylvania), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Highway Transportation, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Big 4 cellphone carriers unite behind AT&T's 'It Can Wait' anti-texting-and-driving campaign
AP Technology WriterNEW YORK (AP) — The country's four biggest cellphone companies are set to launch their first joint advertising campaign against texting while driving, uniting behind AT&T's "It Can Wait" slogan to blanket TV and radio this summer. AT&T, Verizon...Tags: Transportation Industry, Ray LaHood, Radio, T-Mobile, Science
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