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As a result, we've stiffened penalties, raised the drinking age from 18 to 21, mandated license revocation for minors caught driving after drinking any amount of alcohol and, in 16 states, tightened the blood-alcohol standard for drunkenness.
Currently, everywhere in the country it is illegal to drive with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.10 percent or higher.
(To reach a .08% blood-alcohol level, a 170-pound man needs four drinks in one hour on an empty stomach.)
The measure--backed by Mothers Against Drunk Driving and up for a vote as an amendment to the highway bill next month--would make all states change their definition of who is drunk from a person with a minimum blood-alcohol level of 0.10 to someone with a level of 0.08 percent.
It found that the risk of a single-vehicle crash for a driver with a blood-alcohol level of 0.05 percent to 0.09 percent is 11 times that of someone at 0.02 percent to 0.04 percent.