{"id":423,"date":"2018-05-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baronedefensefirm.lawblogger.net\/blog\/when-will-michigan-have-a-05-legal-limit-for-drunk-driving\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T14:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:39:07","slug":"when-will-michigan-have-a-05-legal-limit-for-drunk-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/when-will-michigan-have-a-05-legal-limit-for-drunk-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"When Will Michigan Have a .05 Legal Limit for Drunk Driving?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michigan is likely to have a .05 legal limit for drunk driving within the next five years. This is because the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has begun pushing a .05 legal limit at the national level.\u00a0 Once a .05 legal limit is adopted as national policy, the federal government will use highway funds to force all states to lower their legal limits to .05.\u00a0 Michigan will capitulate to this new lower legal limit, just as they did in 2003 when the legal limit was lowered from .10 to .08.<\/p>\n

The latest round of NHTSA\u2019s efforts toward a national .05 legal limit is contained in its publication entitled: \u00a0Getting to Zero Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities: A Comprehensive Approach to a Persistent Problem<\/em>.\u00a0 This publication first sets forth their definition of the problem, which is alcohol-related traffic offenses, and then details their proposed solution, which includes a lower legal limit of .05 combined with increasingly aggressive law enforcement practices, including roadblocks.<\/p>\n

NHTSA’s initial statement or premise is that:<\/p>\n

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Michigan is likely to have a .05 legal limit for drunk driving within the next five years. This is because the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has begun pushing a .05 legal limit at the national level.\u00a0 Once a .05 legal limit is adopted as national policy, the federal government will use highway funds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,7,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dui","category-dui-stops","category-owi"],"yoast_head":"\nWhen Will Michigan Have a .05 Legal Limit for Drunk Driving?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The legal limit for drunk driving is likely to change soon in Michigan. 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