Snowbird Resort • Michael Donoghue has vacationed in Utah to ski and snowboard for the past three Christmases. Next year, though, he doesn’t plan on coming back here.
He might go to Sun Valley in Idaho instead. Or maybe Mammoth Mountain in California, about a five-hour drive from his house in Los Angeles. “But probably anywhere in Colorado would do, too.”
None of those states, Donoghue noted, have the strictest drunken driving law in the nation. At 12:01 a.m. Sunday, Utah will.
The state’s new threshold, passed in 2016 and taking effect the day before New Year’s Eve, lowers the blood alcohol content (BAC) limit for driving under the influence from 0.