Taimoor Rana is seasoned criminal defense attorney specializing in DUI related cases. He shares his expert legal opinion here Scientific Facts about Intoxication While Driving »
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- Everyday we hear and listen how drugs and alcohol reacts in our bodies. It is about their side effects on body organs such as liver and kidneys, and also its reaction on the body movement especially while driving. Here are some important facts about the body’s reaction to alcohol when you drive car.
Impact of Alcohol on Your Motor Reflexes
Alcohol effects varies, depending on the person and their tolerance related to their age, weight, and diet. In major cases blood alcohol content of 0.01-0.05% is considered subclinical and it results in normal behavior and slowed reflexes are same as someone has not slept after a day long.
If you get blood alcohol level of 0.03-0.12% then you are considered in the Euphoria stage that results in a loss of critical judgment, emotional instability and the impairment of general perception, memory and comprehension. In simple words it means that you lose the basic skills which are needed to operate a motor vehicle properly. In other effects you can have drowsiness which is dangerous and everything from visual acuity, to glare recovery, to sense motor coordination can reduce all.
When your blood alcohol level reaches at 0.10%, it means you reach the confusion level which will result in loss of motor control, visual disturbances and dizziness. After this point, you reach dangerous levels of Stupor and even Coma.
Driving Motor Vehicle While Intoxicated
You can lose some necessary skills to handle a car when your blood alcohol level is 0.03%, for some people it can be even lower. Even at 0.01% blood alcohol level accident risks are higher. And it gets higher if your blood alcohol level is high. In some states 0.08% blood alcohol content is considered legally drunk while they are well beyond safe driving limits.
There is no doubt that driving a car when drunk is a bad idea. Even a single drink can increase the risk of an accident many times over. So when you will be having 0.08% blood alcohol level which is legal in most of states, the risks are infinitely higher, resulting in potential accidents or even deaths.
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Here on this website we will tell you about the other side of the story….
For years we had hear about the “slaughter on the nation’s highways”, we have also read tragic stories of people dying as a result of fatal hit by drunk drivers.
Pressure groups such as MADD have gained wild success in fomenting public hysteria and, and no politician could ever had such courage to oppose them, they have been pushing through ever stricter DUI laws and most harsh punishments. As a result of all these things, we are given a repeated assurance that the number of “alcohol related” traffic fatalities have continued to decrease dramatically.
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