Today it is hard to meet a person, who does not know that the one should not drive after drinking the alcohol. But the biggest percentage of the car incidents happened because of drunk driving and the numbers keep growing.
The probability of getting into a fatal crash for drunk drivers is much higher than for sober drivers. This happens due to the fact that alcohol impairs a person’s ability to perceive what is happening, and his capacity for judgment. Everyone knows that the reaction of a drunk man is slowed down and that sometimes a drunk person doing things, that sober one would never have done. Unfortunately, this often ends sadly.
The practice shows that a lot of people who tried to drive a car being drunk or using some alcohol were not scared by the outcome of this driving, they were scared to be caught up by police and pass the alcohol tests. So it shows us that people were not scared for their or passengers’ lives, they were worrying about fines. In fact, in addition to sanctions patrol, alcohol is much more dangerous by its inevitable effects on the brain of the driver. And often this influence is absolutely imperceptible either to the driver, nor his passengers, but it can suddenly remind of itself in the most critical and inopportune moment.
Thus, even at a low degree of intoxication after a couple of glasses of vodka, whiskeys, and beers, when the dose of alcohol in the blood is only 0.2-0.5 ppm, a man increases craving for risky, aggressive driving, sudden maneuvers, need for speed. However, the driver can not accurately determine the speed of other vehicles, for example, when overtaking, bends and turns, deteriorating perception of volumes and the size of surrounding objects.
At a dose of alcohol near the 0.5-0.8 ppm, after a couple of beers, two whiskeys, 3-4 shots of vodka or brandy the speed of adaptation of pupils is reduced, deteriorating the response to changing of lightning and above all – a red light, reactions starting to slow down and getting dull. All this is reflected in the fact that a driver can be easily blinded by random distant light of oncoming traffic, he starts worse adapted to the sudden darkness after well-lit areas and vice versa, does not notice the dangerous points on the road and is slow to respond to the maneuvers of other drivers on the road.
At a dose of 0.8-1.2 (4-5 beers, a bottle of wine or champagne, 10 glasses of vodka) all of these negative processes in the brain of the driver are increasing. In this case it ceases to perceive the process of driving, leaving the awareness of responsibility and danger, it is becoming increasingly difficult to determine the distance to a collision and the vehicle in front of the car, the angle of view gets narrow, deteriorating coordination and feeling of balance. The driver slower and less responsive to what is happening, can confuse the gas and brake pedals, commit other serious mistakes, for cyclists and motorcyclists it is more difficult to drive in a straight line.
At a rate of 1.2-1.5 per mille of alcohol, driving the car becomes impossible, many people have difficulty even with the ignition lock or maneuvering on the parking lot.
If you ask the driver why it is dangerous to drive the car being drunk, most likely response will be the following: alcohol dissipates attention, decreases memory, increases the response time, disturbed coordination of movements, willed regulation. The factors, that evidence of physiological changes that can impair the central regulation of the body will be listed. It is believed that if a healthy young driver drank a glass of vodka, then these quality are really much lower. If he drank a very small shot of vodka, then the quality will deteriorate only slightly, and it seems to be not a big deal, and the issue can be neglected.
Experience also shows that the majority of road accidents related to alcohol intoxication occurs precisely in such small doses. Hence the reason not only in reducing the physiological features, another factor operates here. When a person drinks a significant proportion of alcohol, he feels the state of intoxication, and usually does not sit behind the wheel. If there is such a desperate driver who allows himself to drive a car being drunk, he is already trying to drive as cautious and attentive as possible, so as to somehow compensate the decline of his physical abilities.
The questions is – to drive or not drive, being drunk? You should decide it by yourself, realizing the responsibility for your life. But the doctors and people, who had a car crash accident because of alcohol will tell you no. If you were drinking and you need to go home, better to take a taxi.