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DRINKING AND DRIVING
Drinking and Driving is dangerous to yourself and others around you. Alcohol is a
depressant; it impairs your ability to drive, slows down your reaction time and causes you
to make some risky decisions that you wouldn't normally take. The penalty for Drinking
and Driving is driving Under the Influence (DUI). If your Blood Alcohol Content (BAC)
registers over .08, which is 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood, you are
driving Under …
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…rate for drivers --29.5 percent and 12.5 percent,
respectively. Both the pedestrian and the driver were intoxicated in 5.3 percent of the crashes that resulted in a
pedestrian fatality.
All states and the District of Columbia now have 21-year-old minimum drinking age laws. NHTSA estimates that these
laws have reduced traffic fatalities involving drivers 18 to 20 years old by 13 percent and have saved an estimated
17,359 lives since 1975. In 1997, an estimated 846 lives were saved by minimum drinking age laws.
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