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.
“1’11
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 in-juries
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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