What is the effect of alcohol on driving skills and crash risk?
The probability of a crash increases at any BAC higher than zero. At a BAC as low as .02 percent, alcohol affects driving ability and crash likelihood. The probability of a crash begins to increase significantly at .05 percent BAC and climbs rapidly after about .08 percent. For drivers age 35 and older with BACs at or above .15 percent on weekend nights, the likelihood of being killed in a single-vehicle crash is more than 380 times higher than it is for nondrinking drivers.
… http://www.iihs.org/research/qanda/alcohol_general.html Impaired Driving Facts – NCIPC Injury fact sheet for alcohol-related DUI and drunk driving motor vehicle accidents. http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/factsheets/drving.htm Alcohol and driving: driving over the limit and the law – law Drink driving and the law … blood alcohol limit for driving on public … Public drunkenness and nuisance behaviour. Under age drinking. Alcohol and driving … http://www.infoscotland.com/alcohol/displaypage.jsp?pContentID=71&p_applic=CCC&p_serv … NHTSA: People: Injury Prevention: Alcohol-Impaired Driving Addressing Alcohol-Impaired Driving: Training Physicians to Detect and Counsel … are more likely to report drunk driving and alcohol-related crash involvement … http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/research/alcohol_impaired.html Alcohol and Driving Drunk Drivers are a hazard … Drinking alcohol and then driving is a very serious problem. … financial, and safety risks of drinking and driving.
Studies have shown that at BACs as low as 0.02 percent, alcohol affects driving ability and crash likelihood. The probability of a crash begins to increase significantly at 0.05 percent BAC and climbs rapidly after about 0.08 percent. For drivers 35 and older with BACs at or above 0.15 percent on weekend nights, the likelihood of being killed in a single-vehicle crash is more than 380 times higher than for nondrinking drivers.” According to the CDC, alcohol was attributed to the death of 13,674 motorists in 2001, and was attributed to 7,655 homicides. The article claims that MADD’s numbers of 13,000 deaths is inaccurate, but it is the best number available. The title of this story is laughable to me as well… “MADD Uses Bogus Stats to Chip Away Our Rights”. Oh no, I don’t want to lose my right to drive drunk and be forced to install an ignition interlock device.uttles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3″Is the problem of alcohol-impaired driving limited to people with very high BACs? No. Among pass
