Driving While Intoxicated

Driving While Intoxicated

Introduction

Driving while intoxicated is a crime under the Criminal Code of US. If you are convicted, you could lose your license, be liable to a kernel or a prison sentence. Even if your vehicle does not roll, you can be convicted if you're driving and you are impaired and that, although you do not put the key in the ignition.

Additionally, driving under the influence of alcohol is a serious crime which causes deaths and injuries, but also has serious legal consequences, financial and social. It is a serious problem among the population of the United States, including the Hispanic community. The message is simple: Drunk driving is a crime. You will be arrested.

Physical effects of driving while intoxicated

Drinking and Driving Ability

Alcohol and driving are a deadly mix. One drink can impair your ability to concentrate and react to things that happen suddenly while driving. The higher the alcohol, the higher you will find it difficult to judge distances and react to sudden threats on the road. The worst thing is that in addition, your eyesight may get confused.

Drugs and Driving Ability

Any drug that alters the state of mind or perception of the environment will affect the way you drive. This is true not only for illegal drugs: Certain medications prescribed by your doctor or available over the counter can affect your driving ability.

Important Measures to Remember

If you plan to drive, do not drink alcohol.

If you take prescription drugs or receiving injections against allergy, ask your doctor about side effects.

Read the information on the packaging of the medicines you buy without a prescription, the same remedies against colds and allergies.

The combination of alcohol and drugs or medications can affect even more drastic on your ability to drive: check with a doctor or pharmacist.

Remember, fatigue and stress can also impair your driving ability.

Social Problems

Drunk driving is one of the crimes most frequently fatal committed in the United States and many of these deaths are innocent victims.

Drunk driving is no accident. It is a decision to commit a criminal act as shocks can cause deaths can be avoided if precautions are taken.

National Figures

One person dies every thirty minutes as a result of consumer-related crashes alcohol, thus affecting one in three people in the United States.

39 percent of all drivers and motorcyclists deaths occurred in 2004 due to crashes (about 15,000 deaths) were related to the consumption of alcohol.

In 2004, nearly 13,000 people died in crashes where alcohol concentration in the blood ("BAC" for its initials in English) was .08 percent or more, which is illegal in all U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

Drunk driving is a crime in every state in the nation. However, the deaths caused by drunken drivers increased last year, after having decreased previous two years. According to the FBI report (Uniform Crime Report), in 2004 more 1.4 million people were arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol (Kelly, 2004).

Root of the Problem

The problem arises when some ...