1998 Pontiac Grand Prix Owner's Manual - Page 198

The body takes about hour to rid itself the alcohol an of in one drink. amount of coffee or number cold No of CAUTION: showers will speed that up. "I'll be careful" isn't the right answer. What if there's an emergency, a need to is take sudden action, as when a child darts into the street? Drinking and then drivingvery dangerous. Your reflexes,perceptions, attentivenessand A person with even a moderate BAC might notbe able judgment can be affected by evena small amount to react quickly enough to avoid the collision. of alcohol. You can havea serious or even There's somethingelse about drinking and driving that fatal collision if you drive afterdrinking. many people don't know. Medical research shows that Please don't drink and drive or ride a driver with alcohol in a person's system make crash injuries can who has been drinking. Ridehome in a cab; or if worse, especially injuries to the brain, spinal cord or you're with a group, designatea driver who will heart. This means that when anyone who has been drinking -- driver or passenger -- is in a crash, that not drink. person's chanceof being killed or permanently disabled is higher than if the personhad not been drinking. A - -- --