Alcohol and other drugs impair driving ability. The term “drunk driving” is intended to incorporate all forms of impairment. Many states require a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.10 g/ dl (grams per deciliter) before a driver is considered legally intoxicated, but driver reaction time slows with a BAC below 0.10. Vision and depth perception become distorted, and coordination and judgment are affected. Thus, more states have recently lowered the BAC criterion to 0.08, which is still well above the American Medical Association recommendation of 0.05 g/ dl. Drunk/ drugged driving deaths and injuries are senseless acts. They are someone’s fault (not “accidents”), so they always could have been prevented (Gjerde, Beulich, Morland, 479-483).
Drunk or drugged driving is a crime. Victims of drunken driving crashes are not hurt accidently. The crime is the result of two choices made by a driver: to use alcohol or other drugs and to get behind the wheel of a vehicle. These choices are as dangerous to the public as using a deadly weapon and can be just as deadly. Drunk driving is not a new problem. Thanks to the work of Mothers against Drunk Driving (MADD), Remove Intoxicated Drivers (RID), and other grass roots victim groups, public awareness of drinking and driving as preventable crime has grown, and the number of state and federal laws against impaired driving are increasing.
Alcoholism as socio-pathologic phenomenon and alcohol influence on men's behavior in traffic, have been frequently analyzed, but they aren't completely conceivable. Accident importance of drunkenness differs in frequency among different studies. In the literature can be find that alcoholic state is cause for 6-57% of traffic accidents. Researches in Indiana University in-formed that almost 40% of traffic accidents had been related with using alcohol. Alcohol influence on frequency of the traffic accidents is.....
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