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Your typical accident-causing drunk has a blood alcohol level of OVER .15....nearly twice the legal limit.

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We have a winner.

Yup. One year, I made it a point to pay attention to every DUI fatality story in the big daily newspaper of a west coast city. There wasn’t a single fatal DUI less than 0.15. There was one fatal at 0.12, but it was some kids doing triple digit racing, so it was their idiocy, and not the alcohol impairment that primarily caused their death.

I looked at the medical stats, and the chart of BAC versus accident risk had a gentle slope to about 0.10, then had a knee and bent sharply upward. Medicine agrees with the news reports, that the risk is in the 0.15 and up range.

Moreover, when police resources are dedicated to roadblocks and processing barely tipsy accident-free drivers (for the criminal-industrial complex), they aren’t out there detecting the obvious drunks that genuinely imperil other motorists.