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 endangering traffic. If a person is suspected of drunken driving he/she is submitted to a blood test. The police can learn that a person is guilty of drunken driving by a special accuracy breath-analyzer, which analyses the alcohol content in the persons system.

A person can be found guilty of drunk driving when he/she is driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol so that: the alcohol content in their blood during the drive or after it is at least 0.5

A Kranz (wreath) of Kölsch beer.

English: Relative risk of an accident based on blo...

Ball and stick model of ethanol

per mille. OR he/she has at least 0.25 mg. of alcohol in a liter of exhalation of the air. Drunken driving can result in a fine or maximum imprisonment of three months imprisonment.

Underage drinking and driving is also becoming a large problem in America. Alcohol is found to be a significant factor in teenage crashes. Studies have shown that young drivers are

less likely than adults to drive after drinking alcohol, but their crash risks are much higher when they do. This is especially true when their blood alcohol concentrations are lower and is thought to be because of teenagers' inexperience with both drinking and driving.

In order to try to stop teenage drinking and driving, 49 states, including the District of Columbia have established lower blood alcohol thresholds that are illegal per...