Drinking_and_Driving

Drinking and Driving Drinking and Driving Should the drinking and driving laws change from 0.10 per cent to 0.08' Lets look at all the reasons that we should have this law changed. In the past 15 years progress has been made to reduce the proportion of fatally injured drivers with high blood alcohol concentrations (BAC) at or above 0.10. Proportions are lower in all age groups. They’re lower among drivers of passenger cars, tractor-trailers, and motorcycles. But still, alcohol-impaired driving is a major problem. [1] Many states are now lowering the BAC defining impaired driving from 0.10 per cent to 0.08 per cent. A BAC as low as 0.02 percent has been shown to affect driving ability and crash likelihood. The probability of a crash rises after 0.05 percent and even more rapidly after about 0.08 percent. [1] If reduced to 0.08 per cent this equals out to around 2-3 drinks per average person. On an average persons body weight 2-3 drinks can alter the mind, impair vision, and affect coordination. If this all happens at 0.08 per cent then at 0.10 percent it get worse. Alcohol is one of the most widely used drugs known to man; it has been with us since the dawn of civilization. drinking, alcohol, driving, bac, laws, states, percent, limit, drivers, , fatalities, law, blood, after, saved, per, year, reduced, over, one, now, lives, each, drunk, drinks, crashes, crash, cent, been, age, 21, %, traffic, since, proportion, people, lowering, levels, level, just, highway, decreased, adopt, accidents, years, vehicle, 08, time, three, study