Drunk driving in the United States pressure from groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) and Students Against Destructive Decisions (SADD) and leaders like Candy Lightner. Significantly, zero tolerance laws were enacted which criminalized driving a vehicle with 0.01% or 0.02% BAC for drivers under 21. This is true even in Puerto Rico, despite maintaining a legal drinking age of 18. On May 14, 2013, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended that all 50 states lower the benchmark for determining when a driver is legally drunk from 0.08 blood-alcohol content to 0.05. The idea is part of an initiative to eliminate drunk driving, which accounts for
Gertie Shields Gertie Shields Gertie Shields (1930 – 30 July 2015) was the Irish woman who founded the Irish version of Mothers Against Drunk Driving Born Gertie Dempsey in Drogheda to Vincent Dempsey and Kathleen Balfe in 1930. She had 4 siblings, Deirdre, Vincent, Aidan and Raymond, who has been mayor of Drogheda. She married Gerry Shields and had nine children. She lived in Balbriggan in Dublin. Her mother had been a remarkable woman and Shields said she was a huge influence on her life. Shields' daughter Paula was killed by a drunk driver, with several of her friends, when Paula was