Posted on 03/12/2014 3:19:06 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Seems to me marijuana is part of the chemical warfare program the left wages against America.
Even Small Amounts of Alcohol May Impair DrivingStudy Shows a Link Between Car Accidents and Drivers With Less Than Legal Limit for Alcohol in Blood
June 21 2011 -- Driving with a buzz can be as dangerous as driving when you are fully intoxicated, a new study suggests.
The blood-alcohol content (BAC) limit in the U.S. is set at 0.08%, but levels well below this legal limit are associated with car accidents that cause incapacitating injury and death. According to the CDC, close to 30 people in the U.S. die every day in motor vehicle crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver. This is the equivalent of one death every 48 minutes.
"Buzz kills," says David Phillips, PhD a sociologist at University of California, San Diego. "No amount of alcohol seems to be safe for driving."
The new study appears in Addiction.
In the study, drivers who tested positive for blood alcohol at levels well-below the legal BAC limit were more likely to be in severe car accidents than sober drivers largely because they drove significantly faster, were less likely to be appropriately using a seatbelt, and were usually driving the striking vehicle.
The more alcohol the driver drank, the faster that they were likely to be driving, and the more severe the car accident was likely to be, the study shows.
Alcohol Blood Levels
Lowering the legal BAC limit may help, Phillips says. In Sweden, the BAC limit is 0.02%; in Japan, it is 0.03%.
Researchers looked at data from the Fatality Analysis Reporting System, which includes information on all 1,495,667 people in the U.S. who were involved in fatal car accidents from 1994 to 2008. This data included information on BAC in increments of 0.01.
Car accidents are 36.6% more severe even if alcohol was barely detectable in the driver's bloodstream, the study shows. The findings held even after researchers took into account the days and times of the week when car accidents are known to be more severe. Car accident severity is significantly higher on weekends, between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m., and in June through August.
"There is no safe level," Phillips says. "Why assume that just because you have been driving buzzed for years that it is safe?"
Why wasn’t it so in the 1800s? Why did this vegetative plant decide to up and volunteer to be a leftist soldier?
“I’ve noticed the five are probably not as conservative as they try to portray themselves”
Every one of the are for sodomite “marriage”. Every one of them were giggly when Obama said women could be in front line combat roles. Their commend was “bless their hearts of they want to fight for their country”.
Where you find one you will closely find the other...
Faux News caved into the homo agenda and drug agenda at around the same time. That they are considered the conservative answer to the other liberal networks is only because they are not in the tank for the fraud-in-chief; but then again what is their differences with the other networks on homo “marriage” and the legalization of drugs. Not a thing. They are left-wing to the core on the social issues.
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