First Article Notes

"Drunk driving." World of Health. Gale, 2007. Gale Student Resources In Context. Web. 23 Sept. 2010.

·         Drunk Driving is considered a law in the United States if you don’t have a blood content isn't higher than the law allows.

·         The number of deaths has decreased since 1975, when you were allowed to buy alcohol at age 18, drunk driving is still a major factor in motor vehicle accidents.

·         “A survey conducted by the CDC in 2003 showed that one in eight, or 12.5% of teens reported having driven after drinking alcohol within the same one-month period”.

·         “Even the best driver can become sufficiently impaired by alcohol to injure or kill someone on the highway”.

·         Hosts of parties offer non-alcoholic beverages where there is still alcohol served.

·         “Some states have lowered the legal blood alcohol content to 0.08% (from 0.10%)”

·         “One interesting statistic is, according to surveys of high school students conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, 31.2% of the seniors surveyed reported driving after drinking in 1984, compared to 15% in 1995”.

·         In 2001, the National Institutes of Health reported that low blood alcohol concentration increases the risk of getting into a crash while driving.

·         “Over two thirds of all children aged fourteen and under who were killed in car crashes from 1997 until 2002 were riding with a drunk driver”.

·         “At night, the odds of being involved in an alcohol-related automobile accident increase dramatically and on the weekends, over half of all fatal car crashes involve alcohol”.