depressant; it impairs your ability to drive, slows down your reaction time and causes you

to make some risky decisions that you wouldn't normally take. The penalty for Drinking

and Driving is driving Under the Influence (DUI). If your Blood Alcohol Content (BAC)

registers over .08, which is 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood, you are

After having one drink it takes approximately one hour for your body to burn off

the alcohol. You can't depend on yourself to be able to drive after an hour because

everyone processes alcohol differently and you might even feel the effects long after

you've been drinking. Your BAC is based on; your bodyweight, how much you have had

to drink, the amount of food you may have eaten before drinking, the length of time over

which you have had alcohol, and the speed at which your own body processes alcohol

(once again, everyone's is different).

There is no way to make your body burn alcohol faster, eating food, drinking

coffee, exercising, or taking a cold shower may make you feel b

compared to 31.8 percent of fatally injured impaired drivers (BAC between 0.01 g/dl and 0.09 g/dl) and 47.5 percen t

if either a driver or a non occupant (e.g., pedestrian) had a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.01 grams per

one person injured approximately every 2 minutes.

deciliter (g/dl) or greater in a police-reported traffic crash.

In 1997, 30 percent of all traffic fatalities occurred in crashes in which at least one driver or nonoccupant had a BAC of

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