Reservation Cracks Down on DUI
November 17, 2008
LANDER, Wyo. (AP) — The Wind River Indian Reservation has toughened its drunken-driving standards for tribal members.
The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes share the reservation in central Wyoming. The new legal blood-alcohol limit on the reservation is 0.05 percent. That's just half of the reservation's old limit of 0.1 percent and lower than Wyoming's standard of 0.08 percent.
Eastern Shoshone tribal Chairman Ivan Posey pushed for the lower limit, saying that drunken driving is one of the main causes of premature death on the reservation.
Mark Howell is spokesman for the Northern Arapaho Tribe. He says that the new limits apply only to tribal members on the reservation. Tribal courts generally don't have authority over non-Indians.
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