“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
a
higher
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. That’s especially true for brain, spinal cord and
heart injuries. That means that
if
anyone who has been
drinking
--
driver or passenger
--
is in
a
crash, the
chance of being killed
or
permanently disabled is higher
than
if
that person had not been drinking. And we’ve
already seen that the chance of a crash itself is higher for
drinking drivers.
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