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NTSB backs lower blood alcohol limit for drivers
KWCH 12 Eyewitness NewsFederal accident investigators recommended Tuesday that states cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half, matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway deaths in other countries. The National Transportation Safety Board said...Tags: Transportation Industry, Highway Transportation
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Proposal to drop legal drinking limit gets mixed reviews
WDBJ7 Multimedia JournalistThe National Transportation Safety Board announced that it wants to lower the number of deaths caused by drunk driving by lowering the legal drinking limit in the United States. Federal accident investigators proposed dropping the blood alcohol...Tags: Transportation Industry
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UPDATE 3-Boeing resumes deliveries of 787 Dreamliners
Reuters(Adds share close, cost estimates) By Alwyn Scott NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - Boeing Co resumed deliveries of its high-tech 787 Dreamliner jet on Tuesday, ending a period of nearly four months in which it was unable to provide new planes to customers...Tags: Transportation Industry, Boeing Co., Japan, Federal Aviation Administration, Air Transportation Industry
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Prom driver DUI charge sparks push for harsher penalties
— The drunken driving charge of a suburban prom-night limousine bus driver has quickly led to a proposal to toughen punishment in such cases. Under the measure, drivers could be charged with a felony for driving under the influence and carrying...
Tags: Government, Prosecution, Trials, Politics, Executive Branch
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Update: 2 men killed in plane crash identified
After attempting to land several times, an experimental plane crashed Saturday in Suffolk, killing the pilot and the passenger, according to police. The single-engine plane went down at about 1 p.m. in a field near the 1000 block of Carolina Road,...
Tags: Transportation Industry, Accidental Death, Federal Aviation Administration, Transportation Accidents, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland)
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U.S. agency backs lower blood alcohol limit for drivers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top transportation safety agency voted on Tuesday to recommend a lower blood alcohol limit for drivers, advancing its campaign to cut down on drinking-related road deaths through a stricter definition of impairment. At a...
Tags: AAA, Transportation Industry, Transportation, Road Transportation, Travel
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Amateur airplane builders aren't deterred by fatal crash
Wings stood off to one side. The propeller lay in a carton. But the main part of Carl Kesselring's pet project was clearly recognizable as an airplane in progress. "I don't have fear of getting in an airplane," he said, standing in a hangar in...
Tags: Clarksville, Air Transportation Industry, Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents, Broken Nose
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NTSB recommends lowering the legal limit
staff writer, @damichellegThe National Transportation Safety Board is asking states to cut the legal blood alcohol level nearly in half. The board voted Tuesday to recommend that states lower the rate from 0.08 percent to 0.05 percent. In Pennsylvania the rate was lowered to...Tags: Methamphetamine (drug), Transportation Industry, Highway Transportation, Heroin, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Distracted driving death data often slim
Associated PressWASHINGTON -- Seventeen-year-old Kelsey Raffaele's last words were over a cell phone to a friend: "I'm going to crash!" The car she was driving had clipped a snow bank and spun into oncoming traffic, where it was T-boned by an SUV. She died at a...Tags: Transportation Industry, Disasters and Accidents, Motorvehicle Accidents, Accidental Death, Cell Phones
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Coast Guard Sets Hearing for Kulluk Grounding
Channel 2 NewsThe Coast Guard’s investigation into the New Year’s Eve grounding of the Kulluk, a Shell drilling rig, remains ongoing as authorities prepare hearings in Anchorage next week. The Coast Guard wrote in an email that the hearing will be a formal...Tags: Transportation Industry, Petroleum Industry
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Drowsy Driving
Many Americans admit they've done it, but safety experts say drowsy driving is a problem motorists are just starting to wake up to. A fatigue expert on the National Transportation Safety Board says drowsy driving can be as bad as drunken driving. ...Tags: Transportation Industry, New York City
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U.S. NTSB orders scans of Boeing 787 battery as flights resume
ReutersBy Alwyn Scott NEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) - The lithium-ion batteries used in Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliner are getting x-ray scans to help investigators determine what caused them to overheat and in one case catch fire. The scans, scheduled to start this...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Boeing Co., Transportation Industry, Services and Shopping, Air Transportation Delays
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