Owner's Manual
“I’ll be careful” isn’t the right answer. What
if
there’s an emergency,
a
need to take sudden action, as when
a
child darts into the street?
A
person with a higher
BAC
might not be able to react quickly enough
to
avoid the collision.
There’s something else about drinking and driving that many people
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don’t know. Medical research shows that alcohol in a person’s system can
make crash injuries worse. That’s especially true for brain, spinal cord
and heart injuries. That means that
if
anyone who has been drinking
--
driver or passenger
--
is in a crash, the chance
of
being killed or
permanently disabled is higher than if that person had not been drinking.
And we’ve already seen that the chance of a crash itself is higher for
drinking drivers.