Sentences with phrase «legal blood alcohol»

• No PWCs or operation after dark (between sunset and sunrise) • The legal Blood Alcohol Limit for someone operating the watercraft is < 0.08 % • It is illegal to be intoxicated by alcohol or drugs while operating the watercraft • Limit your speed to 5 mph anytime you're within 100 feet of a swimmer or 200 feet of shore, swimming float, diving platform or landing

The legal blood alcohol content level for California adults of drinking age is 0.08 percent.

Note: injuries incurred while you're over the local legal blood alcohol content limit are not covered by travel insurance plans so it's important to stay under the limit.

Commercial drivers with legal blood alcohol content (BAC) levels of at least.04 percent are considered intoxicated, and stiff penalties will apply to a trucker who causes a crash with this BAC.

Similar boating accidents on Lake Lanier (not handled by our firm) involving the death of children also resulted in new laws lowering the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) for drunk boating to.08.

R.I.D.E. gives officers the right to briefly detain and question drivers even if there are no grounds or probable cause for believing that a driver is over the legal blood alcohol limit, impaired, or has committed any offence.

In Ontario, the legal blood alcohol limit is.08.

Of the NTSB's nineteen proposals, perhaps the most dramatic is a recommendation that states lower the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) limit — currently.08 -LCB- d37eae5b8410ed8fb22098597e6ecfa689963c7e8a6548fdf24949bed3e82123 -RCB- in Louisiana — to.05 -LCB- d37eae5b8410ed8fb22098597e6ecfa689963c7e8a6548fdf24949bed3e82123 -RCB-.

One federal agency — the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)-- has supported a number of changes to DUI laws, including lowering the legal blood alcohol content (BAC) limit from.08 % to.05 %.

WEDNESDAY, Jan. 17, 2018 (HealthDay News)-- Lower legal blood alcohol levels for drivers are needed to eliminate drunk driving deaths in the United States, according to a new report.

Evidence shows that the most effective policies to reduce alcohol harms, including harms to others, are: - Raising the price of the cheapest alcohol, through taxation and minimum unit pricing - Regulating the density of outlets that can serve alcohol and restricting the permitted hours of sale - drink driving laws, including a lower legal blood alcohol limit and random roadside breath tests - Screening and brief advice for people who are at risk of drinking to a level that is harmful to themselves and others However, the most effective approach is a comprehensive, multi-sectorial set of measures that work together to reduce levels of harmful drinking.

England and Wales left with the highest drink - drive limit in Europe after Malta announces plans to lower legal blood alcohol content for drivers Road safety groups and emergency services call for England and Wales to follow suit No progress on UK drink driving deaths since 2010 Public opinion polls show 77 % in favour of a lower legal limit

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Roberts consented to a breath test, which showed his blood alcohol level at.011 %, higher than the.08 % limit for legal intoxication.

York's blood alcohol level was at.057, well below the legal limit.

In April he was nailed for drunken driving with a blood - alcohol level that was more than twice the legal limit.

According to prosecutors, a blood test Haskins was given two hours after the crash gauged his blood - alcohol level at.16 (the legal limit is.10); fresh from a party and speeding south to Fort Collins, Colo., to patch things up with his girlfriend, Haskins had drifted over the center line and smashed into the Jeep.

A breathalyzer test showed a blood alcohol content above the legal limit of.08, Lupi said.

• An 18 - year - old Orland Park male is scheduled to appear in Cook County Court May 10 on charges of DUI with a blood - alcohol content above the legal limit and improper lane use.

A 19 - year - old Orland Park man was charged with DUI with blood - alcohol content above the legal limit, driving 20 mph above the posted speed limit, failing to signal before turning, possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of alcohol by a minor during a May 11 traffic stop on the 14900 block of LaGrange Road.

A 32 - year - old Joliet woman was charged with DUI with a blood - alcohol content above the legal limit after she was found asleep at the wheel at the intersection of 143rd Street and Will - Cook Road on April 1.

Lee failed a sobriety test and police later determined she had a blood - alcohol content of.14, well above the legal.08 threshold for a DWI.

According to the complaint, Luthmann's blood alcohol content was.183 percent, more than twice the legal limit of.08 percent.

Even though police found that Luthman, 33, allegedly had a blood alcohol content twice the legal limit after his 1994 Lincoln crashed into a guardrail in September, prosecutors said they couldn't prove that he was behind the wheel without the aid of the witness.

ALBANY, N.Y. (WBEN / AP)-- A New York state lawmaker is proposing to lower the state's legal blood - alcohol limit for drinking and driving from.08 to.05.

Mr. Romeo, who District Attorney Thomas Spota has said had a blood alcohol content below the legal limit when he submitted to a blood test nearly two hours after the crash, has been charged with misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.

Democratic Assemblyman Felix Ortiz is proposing to lower the state's legal blood - alcohol limit for drinking and driving from.08 to.05.

Fossella's blood alcohol level was.17, court papers said, more than twice the legal limit of.08 in Virginia.

According to Fabiano, his blood - alcohol content tested at 0.06 percent -LRB-.08 is the legal limit for DWI) and he was charged with driving while ability impaired by alcohol.

Rutan was located in the Town of Preston, he found to be operating the vehicle in an intoxicated condition, he was had a blood alcohol content 2 1/2 times more than the legal limit.

A 2009 study found an increased risk of accidents for levels of THC higher than five nanograms per milliliter of blood, which some evidence indicates is as impairing as a blood alcohol concentration around the legal limit of 0.08 percent.

Huestis, like most researchers, doesn't support a legal driving limit for cannabis like the one in place for blood alcohol concentrations.

Binge drinking, defined as having four or more drinks on an occasion for women, or five or more drinks on an occasion for men, can produce blood alcohol levels greater than 0.08 percent, which is the legal limit for driving in the United States.

Because they can't ethically subject youth to alcohol to study its effects, researchers use the developing brains of rats to understand the effects of «intermittent alcohol exposure» — the equivalent of drinking to a blood - alcohol level of.08 (the legal limit for driving while impaired) three or four nights a week.

In women who had the surgery, blood - alcohol content peaked at 5 minutes after drinking and reached 1.10, significantly above the legal driving limit of 0.80.

«After having a sleeve gastrectomy, if a woman has a couple of drinks, she could be exposing her brain to blood alcohol levels that are achieved in a woman without surgery when she consumes four or five drinks,» adds first author M. Belen Acevedo, a postdoc in Pepino's group at U of I. «Drinking, such that it raises blood alcohol levels above legal drinking limits, is considered a binge drinking episode and has been associated with an increased risk of developing alcohol problems.»

In the U.S., between 40 and 50 percent of homicides involve the use of alcohol by either the victim or perpetrator, and more than half involve people who are significantly impaired by alcohol, which means that their blood alcohol levels are at or above 0.08 percent, the legal limit for driving.

In humans this would be comparable to binge drinking, or blood alcohol levels roughly two to three times that of the U.S. legal driving limit of 0.08 percent, Morikawa says.

«After just two drinks, the blood - alcohol content in the surgery group exceeded the legal driving limit for 30 minutes, but the levels in the other group never reached the legal limit.

In Western Australia between 1980 and 1989, more than 83 per cent of Aborigines killed on the road had blood alcohol readings above 0.08 grams per millilitre, the legal limit for the state.

They've shown that using a cell phone while driving poses the same relative risk as driving with a blood - alcohol level at the legal limit.

Specifically, it looked at the impact both of social habits and legal regulation of alcohol consumption, such as the legislation that controls drink - driving, that is to say, the laws that dictate the maximum blood alcohol level.

Think of two degrees Celsius as the legal drinking limit — equivalent to the 0.08 blood - alcohol level below which you might get away with driving home.

Dr. Lukas» team is investigating the driver alcohol detection system for safety, a non-invasive in - vehicle alcohol detection technology that prevents drivers from starting a vehicle if their estimated blood alcohol concentration exceeds the legal limit.

When he requested that she take a Breathalyzer test, Allahverdi complied — and learned that shed registered a blood - alcohol concentration (BAC) of a little over 0.08, the legal limit nationwide.

An obvious hero attracting immediate and fervent media attention, Whitaker nonetheless stands to be found culpable for having a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit for driving a car.

Already the federal government is funding technology that will passively detect any driver's blood - alcohol level and render the vehicle inoperable if that level exceeds the legal limit.

The majority of those crashes involved drivers with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of.15 or higher — nearly double the legal limit.

This study's estimate of the crash risk associated with driving after having slept for 4 - 5 hours in the past 24 hours compared with 7 hours or more is similar to the NHTSA's estimates of the crash risk associated with driving with a BAC [Blood alcohol concentration] equal to the level that all U.S. states have set as the per se legal limit, and the crash risk associated with having slept for less than 4 hours is comparable to the crash risk associated with a BAC of roughly 0.12 — 0.15.

Think of two degrees Celsius as the legal drinking limit — equivalent to the 0.08 blood - alcohol level below which you might get away with driving home.

The judge, whose blood - alcohol level tested at more than twice the legal limit afterwards, was sentenced to three years» unsupervised probation and fined $ 1,000.