There’s nothing wrong with having a few drinks to take some of the load off after a hard day’s work or kicking back with some buds on a Friday night. However, no amount of stress relief is worth risking your life and the lives of others.
Drinking and driving is a serious offense for a good reason: people die from it all the time. Drinking and driving is sometimes called driving under the influence (DUI) or driving while intoxicated. It involves operating a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol content level of .08 or above.
However, even BAC levels below this can be dangerous in driving situations. Some drivers might not even exhibit intoxication while operating but that doesn’t mean it’s any less risky.
How Alcohol Affects Driving Ability
Every day, an average of 28 people die from drunk driving-related accidents. But why? So many people get injured or die in drunk driving accidents because the substance impairs brain function, thinking, reasoning, and motor functions. All these abilities are essential when operating a machine.
As a person’s BAC rises, so too do the effects of alcohol on that person, causing them to make increasingly ill-advised decisions and compromising their ability to operate a motor vehicle. People absorb alcohol through the walls of the small intestine and it passes into the bloodstream. Once it hits the bloodstream, its impairing effects start to take hold.
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