The body takes about
an
hour
to
rid itself of
the
alcohol
in one drink.
No
amount
of coffee or number
of
cold
showers will speed that up. “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 even
a
moderate
BAC
might not be able
to
react quickly enough to avoid the collision.
There’s something else about drinking and driving that
many people don’t know. Medical research
shows
that
alcohol in a person’s system can make crash injuries
worse, especially injuries to the brain, spinal cord or
heart. This means that when anyone who has been
drinking
--
driver or passenger
--
is in a crash, that
person’s chance
of
being killed
or
permanently disabled
is higher than
if
the person had not been drinking.
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