SHIELDS AND STARS DUI PAGES
What is your blood alcohol concentration after a drink or two? Use this simple calculator to find out an estimate of what IT MIGHT be.
Do not in any way use this to determine your ability to drive a vehicle as alcohol affects everyone in different ways.
Does alcohol consume you? Does it affect your decisions and financial status? Have you been arrested for DUI? Have you been involved
in a crash while DUI? Do you have a beer in the morning as coffee? Please get help!
Some SOBERING DUI statistics
About 41% of traffic fatalities are DUI related
That total is around 17,380
or about 1 every 30 minutes
Impairment is not determined by the type of drink, but rather by the amount of alcohol ingested over a specific period of time.
Every weekday night from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., one in 13 drivers is drunk (BAC of .08 or more). Between 1 a.m. and 6 a.m. on weekend mornings, one in seven drivers is drunk.
In most, if not all states.....you can be arrested for DUI even if you are asleep in a vehicle such as in a parking lot of a bar or anywhere while intoxicated. Depending on the state, its called something to the effect of "being in physical control" of a motor vehicle which basically means that you could at anytime drive off if you wanted to while still intoxicated. Many people think that they are doing right by trying to "sleep it off" a bit before driving home. While we as law enforcement respect this idea, too many times a person will wake up and think that they are sober enough to drive while actually they are not. They will attempt to drive home and some will have a wreck. This is why we can and do make this kind of an arrest.
Alcohol-related fatalities are caused primarily by the consumption of beer (80 percent) followed by liquor/wine at 20 percent.
An estimated 310,000 persons were injured in crashes where police reported that alcohol was present — an average of one person injured approximately every 2 minutes. Approximately 43 of our fellow citizens are lost each day, 305 each week, and 1309 each month because of alcohol related accidents. That's one life lost every 33 minutes.
The highest intoxication rates in fatal crashes in 2000 were recorded for drivers 21-24 years old (27 percent) followed by ages 25-34 (24 percent) and 35-44 (22 percent).
The Myths of Drinking and Driving
MYTH: 1 You can sober up with black coffee, a cold shower,
fresh air or exercise.
REALITY: Only time can sober up a person. Many factors contribute to how much
alcohol it takes for a person to become impaired. A person's weight and how much
food they have in their stomachs at the time of alcohol consumption are two such
factors. For example, depending on height and weight of a someone who has had
five drinks in two hours will probably need at least three more hours without
alcohol to sober up. Research shows the effects of alcohol take longer to wear
off on women.
"Women generally get tipsy faster and stay high longer than men matching them drink for drink."
MYTH: 2 Drinking beer or wine will not make you as drunk as
hard liquor.
REALITY: A 12 oz. beer, a 5 oz. glass of wine and a 1 oz. shot of hard liquor
all contain the same amount of alcohol. Depending on your drink of choice, it
may actually have MORE alcohol than a shot of hard liquor.
MYTH: 3 You can tell if a friend is drunk by looking at him.
REALITY: Judgement is the first thing affected when someone has been drinking
and important motor skills are next. Even one drink can impair someone's ability
to drive. Someone's physical appearance can be misleading.
The bottom line is ZERO TOLERANCE for DUI and DUI related offenses.
If you insist on drinking and driving I will provide the chaser!
