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Drunk driving.

Title: Drunk driving.
Category: /Social Sciences
Details: Words: 855 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Drunk driving.
Every year almost 20,000 people are killed in accidents involving people (or persons) under the influence of alcohol or drugs. That means that someone is killed from alcohol-related accidents approximately every 7 hours and 29 minutes. These types of accidents end up costing the nation almost $50 billion dollars each year. Which is a rise of 4% since 1994. Every year, the police give a breath test to 1.2 - 1.4 million car drivers and about 7,000- 10,000 boat drivers to eliminate drunken drivers …showed first 75 words of 855 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 855 total…do. Driving skills begin to suffer at a blood alcohol content level as low as .05 percent- about the level produced by consuming 1-2 drinks per hour. Most drivers don't consider they're drunk until they're beyond the legal levels of intoxication, levels that seriously impair driving ability. Alcohol directly affects not only a person's reaction time, but also his perception of it. Drinkers constantly underestimate how mach they've had to drink and how intoxicated they are.

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