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  • CHART: Drunk driving law, legal alcohol limits, laws for each U.S. state. on 2009-03-31
    • In 2002...

      DRUNK
      DRIVERS IN THE U.S. KILLED 17,000 MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN!

      (5% MORE THAN THE
      PREVIOUS YEAR, 2001)
  • alcohol statistics & alcohol abuse treatment by drug statistics.com on 2009-03-31
    • Alcohol is involved in 50% of all driving fatalities.
    • n the United States, every 30 minutes someone is killed in an alcohol related traffic accident.



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  • Impaired Driving on 2009-03-31
    • Every day, 36 people in the United States die, and approximately 700 more are injured, in motor vehicle crashes that involve an
      alcohol-impaired driver.
    • The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $51 billion.
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  • Alcohol - Facts, Statistics, Resources, and Impairment Charts on 2009-03-31
    • Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
    • Even at low doses, alcohol significantly impairs the judgment and coordination required to drive a car or operate machinery safely.
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  • How does alcohol affect my driving on 2009-03-30
      • any alcohol at all will affect your

        ability to drive.



        Alcohol will:



        • reduce

          your ability to do more than one thing at a time
        • make it

          hard for you to concentrate on your driving
        • slow down

          your reaction time if something unexpected happens
        • make you

          feel more confident., which may lead you to take risks
        • upset

          your vision, especially at night, and your hearing
        • make simple

          tasks more difficult
        • relax

          you, making you more likely to fall asleep at the wheel.


      • at 0.05

        BAC your risk of being involved in a rood crash is double what it would

        be if you had not been drinking at all
      • at 0.1

        BAC your risk is more than seven times as high as at zero BAC
      • at 0.15

        BAC your relative crash risk is a huge 25 times more than if you had

        not been drinking at all.
  • Drinking & Driving on 2009-03-30
    • The relative risk of death for drivers in single-vehicle crashes with a high BAC is 385 times that of a zero-BAC driver and for male drivers the risk is 707 times that of a sober driver
  • Drunk driving statistics on 2009-03-30
    • 16,005 people were killed in the United States in alcohol-related* motor vehicle traffic crashes (BAC of .01 or higher).


      In 2006, 1,794 children age 14 and younger were killed in motor vehicle crashes. Of those 1,794 fatalities, 306 (17%) occurred in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. Children riding in vehicles with drivers who had a BAC level of .08 or higher accounted for half (153) of these deaths.

  • The Holocaust on 2009-02-02
    • The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators
  • Medical Experiments Table of Contents on 2009-01-12
  • Mozilla Firefox Start Page on 2009-01-12
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