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Home / Health News / It isn’t safe to drive even after one drink

It isn’t safe to drive even after one drink

By: Agencies   | | Published: January 20, 2014 11:47 am
Tags: Drinking  Driving  Drunk driving  In the news  

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According to a new study by the University of San Diego in California, even a BAC of .01 – the equivalent of one or two drinks – can impair driving, making drivers nearly twice as likely to be at fault in an accident compared to a sober driver. (Read: Driving with a cold as dangerous as drunk driving?) Also Read - Steer clear of frozen cocktails and milk shakes if you are over 40

‘We find no safe combination of drinking and driving – no point at which it is harmless to consume alcohol and get behind the wheel of a car,’ said sociologist David Phillips from the University of San Diego.

The researchers analysed 570,731 fatal collisions between 1994 and 2011 from the US Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS) database.

‘A BAC of .01 is 46 percent more likely to be ‘officially and solely blamed’ by accident investigators than the sober driver,’ said Phillips.

‘Our data provide support for yet greater reductions in the legal BAC,’ Phillips added.

In India, according to Delhi Police, the risk being involved in a crash starts to rise significantly at a BAC of 40 mg for 100 ml of blood.

Young/adults with BAC above zero have 2.5 times the risk of crash compared with more experienced drivers, Delhi Police say. (Read: Should India follow China’s lead to curb drunk driving cases?)

Source: IANS

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