How Does Alcohol Affect Your Driving? Dangers & Consequences

Law enforcement agencies primarily use breath testing, but they often convert breath-test results to equivalent blood alcohol measurements, because early drunk driving laws based their limits on blood tests (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA] 1990). In cases of alcohol-related traffic fatalities, consequences of driving drunk include: however, blood testing must be used to estimate […]

The Effects of Alcohol on Your Driving Skills: Minimizing Driving Risks

Some say even asking someone else for a ride or using the designated driver method could be considered unreasonable because people often live far from each other. Trends in number of alcohol-related traffic fatalities for different age groups, 1982 through 2002. Sixteen- to 20-year-olds have had the greatest decline in alcohol-related traffic deaths since 1982, […]