Letter: Legislature’s claim it makes laws to ‘save lives’ doesn’t hold up

The state Legislature supports a .05 blood alcohol limit for driving in Utah on the grounds that “if it saves one life” it is a good idea, and cites the National Transportation Safety Board as supporting the lower .05 limit.Yet the NTSB (Google it) says driving speeds kill as many as alcohol does on the roads, and we have one of the highest highway speed limits in the nation. The NTSB (Google it) also supports primary offense laws banning cellphone use while driving, yet our Legislat