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In the spring of 2017, I wrote a Did You Know article about Utah, where legislators were considering reducing the legal blood alcohol limit from .08 to .05. The law passed and went into effect in 2018 ...

Beginning Saturday, Utah will have the strictest DUI law in the country. Drivers will be held to a blood alcohol limit of .05 instead of .08, like it was there and still is in most states. Critics ...

Utah already has the harshest drunk driving laws in the U.S., and they're about to get even harsher. As of yesterday, January 1, 2026, everyone, regardless of their age, will have to show their ID to ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The new year will also ring in a new law in Utah. Starting Jan. 1, people convicted of extreme DUI offenses won't be able to buy alcohol. The law will also require IDs to be ...

Miss: Driving Drunk So Utah, how's the draconian DUI limit working for you? A blood alcohol content (BAC) limit of 0.05% was supposed to scare everyone straight and keep people from drinking and ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Officials say car crashes and traffic deaths dropped in Utah after the state enacted the nation's strictest drunken driving laws. A study published Friday by the National Highway ...