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I have been following the new legal, blood-alcohol content legislation, suggesting that we in Utah should go from .08 down to .05 percent. We need not find more reasons to gig more people with unnecessary and profit-grabbing fines for jurisdictional coffers at the expense of the general law-abiding public. But, instead, we need to heavily fine tailgaters, reckless drivers and, especially, cell-phone texters who haven't even had a drink. Then we can actually see the accident rate go down.
Ron Overman
West Valley City