We were watching Dateline last night while eating pizza; they had a feature on the long term implications of a serious wreck caused by a drunk driver.

Brokaw did the feature, and pointed out that many European countries have stricter blood alcohol limits than the U.S. does.

I think the majority of states have a 0.08% limit for driving, as Illinois does. IIRC, Illinois used to have a 0.01% limit in the 80's.

What are the limits that you know of in Europe?

[edit] Yeah, 0.01% above should actually read 0.1%.

Don't you mean 0.1?

When I lived in Europe in the Mid 80's they already enforced, and strictly by god, .08.

There were no if ands or buts, if you were caught above that limit you were flat out busted...

Fandros

0,5 g/l (grammes/liter) in france, no clue about the conversion rates...

think it's 0,3 in sweden, 0,5 in a few other countries, UK, Germany, Italy etc...

I don't get what that particular measurement. grams? Do you mean grams per liter? Are they measuring, say, grams of something per cubic liter of air?

They just recently changed it in Wisconsin from .10 to .08. No clue if it will even make a difference in alchohol related accidents or not. Doubt it personally, it seems most catastrophic accidents while under the influence are when the driver is well beyond the limits or at the very least .20 and above. Changing it from .10 to .08 just made it from stopping after work for 1 beer to not stopping at all.

Shut up Bubus, no one likes the French.

P.S. Green Bay owns u so hard =\

its 0.02 in sweden

Not too sure what it is here in Imperial Land.

But on a completely seperate note, I got pulled over and charged 30 quid for not wearing my seat belt the other day.
And it was BOXING day. 30 quid on boxing day. The fucker.

Wisconsin forever! woo!

Though nothing beats blowing a .15 and not only did the cop not bust us, he dropped us off at a bar so we could catch a ride home with an underage friend of ours.

God bless small communities.

fucking vikings loosing, THEY ALMOST HAD IT!!!

its 0.02 in sweden

Wow. You couldn't even go out to eat and have a glass of wine with dinner.

0.8 in NZ ~

Umm, if someone was at 0.8... I think they have bigger problems than getting arrested.

You have to admit that was an awesome drive by arizona at the end of the 4th quarter, not to mention the last play.

its 80milligrams / 100 millilitres shrug. I thought that was 0.8 :(

.08 in Missouri.

Just got a DWI a couple days ago. Always refuse to blow on your first offense. =>

NY has just recently changed from .1% to .08% in the past year.

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its 0.02 in sweden

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Wow. You couldn't even go out to eat and have a glass of wine with dinner.


Hell,you couldn't even take Nyquil.

0.05 in france if I m calculating correctly.

just use this test:

vapaatila.net/alko/promil...v0_13.html (http://vapaatila.net/alko/promillelukko/hutikka_v0_13.html)

Pfft. That thing's rigged, I hit it square on on 2.0 without making it.