Snohomish County lawmakers again push to lower alcohol limit to 0.05%
OLYMPIA — Amid record traffic fatalities, several Snohomish County lawmakers want to change the long-held legal limit of a 0.08% blood alcohol concentration for driving.
House Bill 2196, introduced by Rep. Brandy Donaghy, D-Mill Creek, would lower the legal alcohol limit to 0.05%.
“We have people dying on our roadways every single day,” she said Thursday in a committee hearing.
If her bill passes, Washington would be the second state in the nation to lower the limit from 0.08%. Utah’s Legislature voted to make the change in 2017. In the first year as state law, Utah’s fatal crash rate decreased nearly 20%, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
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