How Many Drinks Will Get You A DUI? (Chart)
If you insist on driving after a few drinks, here's what you should know about how alcohol affects your system and your criminal record.
Do you know how many drinks you can have before you're in danger of getting a drunken driving violation? As we head into the holiday season, Patch wants you to know when enough is enough. When police pull drivers over for suspected drunken driving, officers ask them to perform field sobriety tests and to take a breath test to measure Blood Alcohol Content. A BAC test measures the percentage of alcohol present in a person's bloodstream. Ohio's legal limit is 0.08. According to the Virginia Tech Alcohol Abuse Prevention website, every 40 minutes, 0.01 percent of alcohol leaves your system. The limit for people younger than 21 is 0.02. However, anyone younger than 21 could still be charged with underaged drinking if the blow a 0.01. Check …
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Jason Lea
9:37 pm on Monday, December 24, 2012
A Merry Christmas to you also, Stig. I want to thank you, as well. You've always been very helpful. (I don't think there has ever been a time that I've known about a snow day before you.) more ›