The Adams administration has joined a statewide push in Albany to lower the blood-alcohol limit for what’s considered drunk driving.
City Transportation Commissioner Ydanis Rodriguez traveled to Albany on Tuesday to rally in support of a bill in the State Legislature that would lower the blood-alcohol limit from 0.08 to 0.05, which supporters argue could substantially decrease drunk driving deaths in the Empire State.
“Whether they are at 0.06 or 0.12 or 0.20, the consequences can be deadly,” the commissioner said at the rally on the state Capitol’s Million Dollar Staircase.
Drunk driving was responsible for 307 deaths in New York State in 2019, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Nearly a third of all fatal crashes in New York that year were the result of drunk driving, according to the agency.