A new year means new priorities in Hartford, and one emerging priority is roadway safety. Connecticut is coming off a deadly year on the roads - nearly 330 people were killed in 2024. It's the second ...

Hartford — After 329 deaths last year in traffic crashes and 14 more fatalities in the first few weeks of 2025, state Sen. Christine Cohen thinks that this General Assembly could finally lower the ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (WFSB) - For the third year in a row lawmakers in Connecticut are looking to lower blood alcohol content levels. They’re hoping this will help crack down on impaired driving which ...

Last year, Connecticut recorded more than 300 traffic related fatalities. Alcohol was involved in a third of them. In an effort to address what transportation officials see as a serious problem on the ...

A Cumberland County man’s blood alcohol level was four times the legal limit when he caused a November 2024 crash that severely injured another driver, police said. Richard J. Luedecke, 57, of ...

Josh Jackman was seriously injured by a drunk driver in 2007. He supports legislators' effort to lower the state BAC level to ...

An East Dundee man killed in February after being struck by three cars on Route 31 had a blood alcohol content nearly four times over the legal intoxication level, records show. Tom Yucuis, 69, ...

Washington lawmakers this session are mulling a renewed push to drop the legal blood alcohol level for drivers from 0.08% to 0.05%. Senate Bill 5067 was heard in the Senate Transportation Committee on ...

How a backroad discovery led to the arrest of Melodee Buzzard’s mother in the child’s ‘calculated’ killing 'Crisis is ...

Washington lawmakers are poised to, once again, try and lower the legal limit for how much you can drink before driving. The state's threshold for drunk driving is a blood alcohol level (BAC) of 0.08% ...