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Category Archives: Impaired Driving
Blood Alcohol Concentration 0.05
The United States National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday recommended the legal limit for driving drunk be lowered from .08 blood-alcohol content to .05 in an effort to reduce alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes, which kill about 10,000 people a year. … Continue…
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Should a Company be Liable for the DUI of a Known Alcoholic???
A federal jury in Detroit Michigan is hearing a wrongful death lawsuit arising out of a traffic accident that killed a mother and her two children when an SUV driven at 70 miles an hour by a sales executive for UGS (now Siemens) plowed into the back of their car. At the time of the afternoon accident, the sales executive had a blood-alcohol level of 0.43; the legal limit in Michigan is 0.08. Continue…
The Consequences of Drinking and Driving
After watching this for the first time, I felt nauseous – so many lives have been destroyed by impaired driving. Continue…
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Steering Wheels that Sense Alcohol Consumption
A Canadian company, Sober Steering Sensors, is working on technology that makes use of chemical sensors built into steering wheels to detect the gas byproducts of alcohol through the skin of drivers. Continue…
Merry Christmas from SureHire
Party season is in full swing and I know that everyone has been told before, but drinking and driving do not mix. There is always an alternative. As an employer, if you have alcohol at work related functions, be sure you practise due diligence. Employers can potentially face civil liability when hosting, organizing or sponsoring events that involve alcohol. Continue…
