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Never
Drink & Drive!
Never
Drink & Drive!
Never
Drink & Drive!
It's a privilege to have a driver's license.
Don't abuse this privilege.
Arrive Alive! Don't Drink & Drive!
Friends don't let friends drink & drive!
Don't Drink &
Drive
Traffic crashes are the greatest
single cause of death for ages 6 to 28. Almost
half are alcohol-related.
Never
Drink and Drive. Drinking
& Driving increase your chances of...
Driving
recklessly.
Making bad
driving decisions.
Not being
able to control your car.
Breaking
the law.
Being in a
car accident - you could die.
Being in a
car accident - you could become severely disabled.
Being in a
car accident - you could cause the death of another person (a stranger, a
relative, a friend, a child).
Being in a
car accident - you could cause
great injury to another person (a stranger, a relative, a friend, a
child).
Causing
much hardship and/or suffering to your family (court costs, higher car insurance
rates, taking care of you if you should become severely disabled, burying you if
you should die, constantly worrying about you, not able to trust you).
Having the
disapproval of your family, friends, neighbors and peers.
Losing the
privilege to have a driver's license.
Being
arrested, going to trial, paying a fine, doing community work or being put in
jail.
Having to
pay higher car insurance rates.
A very
guilty conscience. If any of the
above things happened because of you, you would have to live with your
conscience for the rest of your life.
What
is BAC?
Once
alcohol has been consumed, it is absorbed into your blood system, and it can be
measured as Blood Alcohol Content (BAC).
In
the state of Michigan,
driving with a BAC of .08
or more is illegal.
With
a BAC count of 0.08, your chances
of crashing are 4 times greater than if you're sober.
With
a BAC count of 0.12, your chances
of crashing are 15 times greater than if you're sober.
With
a BAC count of 0.16, your chances
of crashing are 30 times greater than if you're sober.
What
happens when you drink and drive? You become an
impaired driver.
When you are impaired, you are unable to make good driving decisions or to react
quickly to different driving situations because alcohol messes up your
ability to think clearly and to react quickly.
The
more a person drinks, the more their ability to make important driving decisions
becomes impaired. After just one
drink, a driver can begin to lose their ability to perform the tasks
necessary to drive a car like braking, steering, changing lanes, and using
judgment to adjust to changing road conditions.
You don't need to drink much alcohol before your ability to drive becomes
impaired. For example, certain driving skills--such as steering a car while, at
the same time, responding to changes in traffic--can be impaired by blood
alcohol concentrations (BACs) as low as 0.02 percent.
Don't
drink and drive.
Don't become an impaired driver.
An impaired driver is a dangerous driver.
They tend to...
Weave from one side of the road to other.
Drift from one lane to another.
Straddle the center lane.
Drive on the wrong side of road.
Drive off the road.
Drive into the traffic coming at them.
Just miss another car or object by driving or passing too close.
Follow another car too closely.
Drive at very slow speed. At least 10 mph below the speed limit.
Signal inconsistently with driving action. Ex. Right turn signal on, then turns left.
Respond slowly to a traffic signal. Like they are trying to figure out what they are suppose to do.
Brake when there is no reason to.
Brake in a jerky way.
Speed up or slow down when there is no reason to.
Drive with their headlights off when they should be on.
Stop when they shouldn't like for a green light.
Make a turn into an intersection much wider than necessary.
Make an unexpected or illegal turn with excessive speed from the wrong lane or from the outside lane
© Joan Marie
Brown
Mrs. Brown, a Technology Educator, is the author of this
website.
Created May 1998, updated September 2006.
This website is hosted by Wayne RESA.
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