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
Jerry Was a Race Car Driver at the time. Jerry Was a Race Car Driver "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" is the first single of Primus's 1991 album "Sailing the Seas of Cheese". The song tells the stories of two characters, Jerry, an ill-fated race car driver who collides with a telephone pole while driving intoxicated (hence the use of "was", in the title) and Captain Pearce, a retired fireman. The band created a music video for the track. "Jerry Was a Race Car Driver" was the second Primus single, after "John the Fisherman" from 1990's indie release "Frizzle Fry". "Jerry Was a Race Car