1994 Chevrolet Lumina Owner's Manual - Page 110

Your Driving and the Road There's something else about drinking and driving that manypeople don't know. Research shows that the driving skills of Medical research shows that alcohol in a many people are impaired ata BAC person's system can make crash injuries approaching 0.05 percent, and that the worse. That's especially true for brain, effects are worse at night. All drivers are spinal cord and heart injuries. That means impaired at BAC levels above 0.05 that if anyone who has been drinking-percent. Statistics show that the chance of driver or passenger -- is in a crash, the being in an accident increases sharply for chance of being killed or permanently drivers who have a BAC of 0.05 percent disabled is higher than if that person had or above. A driver with a BAC level of not been drinking. And we've already 0.06 percent (three beers in one hour for a seen that the chance of a crash itself is 180-pound or 82 kg person) has doubled higher for drinkingdrivers. his or her chance of having an accident. At a BAC level of 0.10 percent, the chance of that driver having an accident is six times greater; at a level of 0.15 percent, the chances are twenty-five times greater! And, 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 a higher BAC might not be able to react quickly enough to avoid the collision. Drunken Driving (CONT.) Control of a Vehicle You have three systems thatmake your vehicle go where you want it to go. They are the brakes, the steering andthe accelerator. All three systems have todo their work atthe places where the tires meet the road. Sometimes, as when you're driving on snow or ice, it's easy to ask more of those control systems than the tires and roadcan provide. That means you canlose control of your vehicle. I ...108