NTSB Recommends Lowering Legal Alcohol Limit in New York – What Does Erie County Think?

What do you think? Would lowering the legal driving limit to .05 be a good idea? Would it make for safer roads?

If New York took the recommendation from The National Transportation Safety Board, that might just be the new legal limit instead of .08.

Each state would have to individually change its laws and as of right now each state holds the United States standard of .08.

The Erie County Sheriff says he'd want more information before he says his opinion any further according to WGRZ:

And at that time, I didn't jump on to support it then. I don't know that I would now. Absent, as the Senator just said, actually seeing some medical, some scientific data that suggested a person, in fact, any person at that lower level is in fact intoxicated," says Erie County Sheriff Tim Howard.

That Senator is former Erie County Sheriff Patrick Gallivan, who also wants to see the data which was not included in the N.T.S.B.'s wish list.

 

"At this point, it's really too early to tell because they've just come out with, there's been no discussion in Albany as of yet because we haven't seen what their proposal may or may not be,” says State Senator Patrick Gallivan.