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It’s the amount of alcohol that counts. For example,
if
the same person drank three double martinis
(3
ounces
or
90
ml of liquor each) within an hour, the person’s
BAC
would be close
to
0.12 percent.
A
person who
consumes food just before or during drinking will have a
somewhat lower
BAC
level.
There
is
a gender difference, too. Women generally have
a
lower relative percentage of
body
water than men.
Since alcohol
is
carried
in
body water, this means that a
woman generally will reach a higher
BAC
level than a
man of her same body weight when each has the same
number
of
drinks.
The law
in
many
U.S.
states sets the legal limit at a
BAC
of
0.10 percent. In a growing number of
U.S.
states, and
throughout Canada, the limit is
0.08
percent. In some
other countries, it’s even lower. The
BAC
limit for all
commercial drivers
in
the United States is
0.04
percent.
The
BAC
will be over
0.10
percent after three to six
drinks
(in
one hour). Of course, as we’ve seen, it
depends on how much alcohol
is
in
the drinks, and how
quickly the person drinks them.
But the ability to drive is affected well below a
BAC
of
0.10
percent. Research shows that the driving
skills
of
many people are impaired at a
BAC
approaching
0.05 percent, and that the effects are worse at night.
All
drivers are impaired at
BAC
levels above
0.05
percent.
Statistics show that the chance of being in a collision
increases sharply for drivers who have a
BAC
of
0.05 percent or above.
A
driver with a
BAC
level
of
0.06
percent has doubled his or her chance of having a
collision. At
a
BAC
level
of
0.10
percent,
the
chance
of
this driver having a collision
is
12 times greater;
at
a
level
of
0.15
percent,
the
chance
is
25 times greater!
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