The body takes about an hour to rid itself
of
the alcohol in one drink.
No
amount of coffee or number of cold showers will speed that up. “I’ll be
careful” isn’t the right answer. What if there’s an emergency, a need to take
sudden action, as when a child darts into the street?
A person with even a
moderate
BAC
might not be able to react quickly enough to avoid the
collision.
There’s something else about drinking and driving that many people don’t
know. Medical research shows that alcohol
in
a person’s system can make
crash injuries worse, especially injuries
to
the brain, spinal cord or heart.
This means that when anyone who has been drinking
-
driver or passenger
-
is in a crash, that person’s chance
of
being killed or permanently disabled
is higher than if the person had not been drinking.
Control
of
a
Vehicle
You have three systems that make your vehicle go where
you
want it to
go.
They
are
the brakes, the steering and the accelerator.
All
three systems have
to do their work at the places where the tires meet the road.
Sometimes, as when you’re driving on snow or ice, it’s easy to ask more
of
those control systems than the tires and road can provide. That means
you
can lose control of your vehicle.
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