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Last summer, a 66-year-old Chicago-area insurance broker named Denny McCann was killed when he was run down by a motorist named Saul Chavez. At the time of the accident, Chavez — who dragged McCann’s body a few hundred feet while trying to flee the scene — had a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .29 – well past the limit at which he could control a motor vehicle. For McCann, Chavez’s BAC of .29 was fatal. There’s more. (more…)