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Driving While Buzzed: No Amount of Alcohol Is Safe Behind the Wheel
(Updated) The blood-alcohol limit in the U.S. is 0.08% — a cutoff that implies that any blood-alcohol content (BAC)south of 0.08% is safe, or at least not illegal.
But a new study published in the journal Addiction suggests that there is no such thing as a safe BAC and that driving after consumingeven a small amount of alcohol — just one beer, for instance — is associated with incapacitating injury and death.
The safety of "buzzed" driving has been on the public's mindrecently, in light of the death of MTV's Jackass star Ryan Dunn, 34, who crashed his car on a highway in Chester County, Pa., at high speed, also killing his passenger, Zachary Hartwell, 30.Hours before the crash, Dunn had posted a photo on his Twitter account showing him drinking. The manager of a local bar, Barnaby's of America, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that Dunn hadbeen there with friends but that he didn't seem drunk when he left.
But the new study by two demographers at the University of California, San Diego, suggests that BAC levels farlower are still associated with dangerous accidents. Drivers who consumed even a single drink before getting behind the wheel were more likely than sober drivers to get into car crashes,the study found; those accidents were also on average more severe than those involving sober drivers.
David Phillips and Kimberly M. Brewer of the university's sociology department lookedat accident and injury data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database, which tracks every car accident in the U.S. involving at least one fatality; between 1994 and2008, those accidents involved 1,495,667 people.
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/22/driving-while-buzzed-no-amount-of-alcohol-is-safe-behind-the-wheel/#ixzz1QZkCmqFo
(Updated) The blood-alcohol limit in the U.S. is 0.08% — a cutoff that implies that any blood-alcohol content (BAC)south of 0.08% is safe, or at least not illegal.
But a new study published in the journal Addiction suggests that there is no such thing as a safe BAC and that driving after consumingeven a small amount of alcohol — just one beer, for instance — is associated with incapacitating injury and death.
The safety of "buzzed" driving has been on the public's mindrecently, in light of the death of MTV's Jackass star Ryan Dunn, 34, who crashed his car on a highway in Chester County, Pa., at high speed, also killing his passenger, Zachary Hartwell, 30.Hours before the crash, Dunn had posted a photo on his Twitter account showing him drinking. The manager of a local bar, Barnaby's of America, told the Philadelphia Inquirer that Dunn hadbeen there with friends but that he didn't seem drunk when he left.
But the new study by two demographers at the University of California, San Diego, suggests that BAC levels farlower are still associated with dangerous accidents. Drivers who consumed even a single drink before getting behind the wheel were more likely than sober drivers to get into car crashes,the study found; those accidents were also on average more severe than those involving sober drivers.
David Phillips and Kimberly M. Brewer of the university's sociology department lookedat accident and injury data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database, which tracks every car accident in the U.S. involving at least one fatality; between 1994 and2008, those accidents involved 1,495,667 people.
Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/22/driving-while-buzzed-no-amount-of-alcohol-is-safe-behind-the-wheel/#ixzz1QZkCmqFo
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