Armed with a tougher drunken-driving law, some area police departments are arresting more drivers for barely crossing the new driving-while-intoxicated threshold.

The arrests of drivers with blood-alcohol levels of 0.08 percent or 0.09 percent rose at least 45 percent since the state toughened the penalties for these readings in July 2003, a Buffalo News analysis of DWI cases shows. These drivers are young and often caught late at night in Cheektowaga or Clarence — but seldom in

Source : nl.newsbank.com

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