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What
is the legal limit for BAC (Blood Alcohol Concentration)
in my area?
Every state in the US currently defines a BAC of 0.08%
or higher as criminal when operating a motor vehicle.
Please refer to the following link for more details:
Statistics related to Alcohol-Impaired Driving
- Alcohol-related motor vehicle accidents kill
someone every 31 minutes and injure someone every
2 minutes (NHTSA, 2004)
- During 2003, over 17,000 people died in alcohol-related
motor vehicle accidents, representing 40% of all
traffic-related deaths (NHTSA, 2004)
- More than 2/3 of child passengers ages 14 and
younger who died in alcohol-related crashes during
1997-2002 were riding with the drinking driver (Shults,
2004)
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Relative
Driver Fatality Risk Compared to BAC
Even
a BAC reading of 0.05%, which is below the legal limit
for DUI/DWI conviction, may indicate a risk of up
to 11 times greater than normal.
The use of breathalyzers can alert drivers that may
otherwise think they've had a "safe" amount.
There is NO "safe" amount
of drinking before driving.
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