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« 12 Alcohol Related Facts You Should Know

There are various causes of accidents and drunken driving accidents also are frequently occurring. Here I have summarized few facts about Drunken Driving Facts.

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  1. Driving under Intoxication (DUI) and Driving while Impaired (DWI) are two classes of drinking and driving offence.
  2. The amount of alcohol content in one’s body can be described the term of Blood Alcohol Content (BAC). The normal value of BAC is 0.8%. 0.5 % is the indicative of very high BAC value. With this value, a driver can mess up with accidents and he is not allowed to drive any vehicle.
  3. It is mostly seen that if the drunken man vehicle faces any crash or accident then he himself suffers from lots of injury then the other driver.
  4. The mishap in which a driver, or pedestrian or a passenger is proved to have drunk alcohol that accident is classified under alcohol related mishap.
  5. BAC, age, temper, gender and the alcohol tolerance of a person are of many factors which affect the accident.
  6. A case study has shown that almost 30% of the Americans are affected in an alcohol related crash at least once in their lives.
  7. After several drinks of alcohol, many people think that they are absolutely fine but actually they can be impaired of their driving ability due to slow reaction time, poor visibility, multitasking and coordinating various activities at a time.
  8. The effect of alcohol is different on different individuals. It actually depends upon individual’s temper sways, exhaustion and food consumption.
  9. Although the alcohol content differs in beer, wine or liquor but varying quantities of these drinks have the same effect on the driving capability of an individual.
  10. If the alcohol is present in your body hen it can not be removed from your body. It will automatically metabolize in your body. So you should be careful about it before driving as little ignorance can be fatal to your life.
  11. According to statistical data, once in every two minutes alcohol related crash takes place and in every half an hour one person dies in these types of crashes.
  12. Police can immediately cancels his license if a driver is caught drinking during driving.
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3 commentsto “12 Alcohol Related Facts You Should Know”

  • April 10, 2009
    The Quail wrote

    Great article.

  • April 10, 2009
    j,rees wrote

    Do I Realy Care ??????????? should I ??????????

    Do YOU ????????????

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