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Drunk driving is the act of operating a motor vehicle with the operator's ability to do so impaired as a result of alcohol consumption, or with a blood alcohol level in excess of the legal limit. [1] For drivers 21 years or older, driving with a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08% or higher is illegal.
Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood is a memoir written in 2005 by American writer Koren Zailckas and published by Viking Press. The book has spent more than 10 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list. About Smashed chronicles Zailckas' decade-long struggle with alcohol abuse, beginning at fourteen, in an effort to explain the binge drinking phenomenon that plagues America's youth ...
Drunk driving (or drink-driving in British English [1]) is the act of driving under the influence of alcohol. A small increase in the blood alcohol content increases the relative risk of a motor vehicle crash.
Drunk driving deaths increased by 14% for two consecutive years, rising to more than 13,000 for the first time since 2007. If impaired driving prevention technology was already in vehicles, just ...
Every 15 Minutes programs can include a simulated car crash scene with teenage "victims." Every 15 Minutes is a two-day program focusing on high school juniors and seniors, which challenges them to think about driving while drunk, personal safety, and the responsibility of making mature decisions.
A slightly altered tag line was used here, Drinking and driving wrecks Christmas. Dave (1995) featured a young man (played by Daniel Ryan) paralysed following a drink driving accident, accompanied by voices of his friends encouraging him to have another drink but refusing saying he was driving, whilst his mother prepares his dinner in the ...
A designated driver on New Year's Eve 2011, United States; the yellow DD badge is courtesy of State Farm Insurance.. The terms "designated driver" and "designated driving" (commonly known as DD) refer to the selection of a person who remains sober as the responsible driver of a vehicle whilst others have been allowed to drink alcoholic beverages.
Instead of coping in a healthy way, “I responded by drinking too much,” he said. “I drank to obliterate it, to make it go away." RELATED: See Michael J. Fox and his family through the years