A Sample of Informative Messages Provided by The B4UDrink Educator

• When you get a driver's license, you automatically give your "implied consent" to take a breath test or other test to measure your blood alcohol.
• It is illegal to drive with a Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) at or over a certain limit. As of July 2004 all 50 states and the District of Columbia have passed legislation establishing a driver with a BAC of .08 to be legally intoxicated.
• In 2007 13,000 people died in drunk driving crashes, a decrease of nearly 4% from 2006.
• Drivers with a BAC of .15 or more - less than 1% of motorists in the U.S. on weekend nights - are responsible for more than half of the alcohol-related traffic fatalities during that time.
• For drivers with a BAC of .15 or above, the estimated risk of a fatal, single-vehicle crash is 380 times greater than for non-drinking drivers.
• Eating before you drink can lower your peak BAC. While in the B4UDrink Virtual Bar, click "food" to see the difference it can make.
• Females have less water in their bodies and do not break down alcohol as efficiently as males. Therefore, a female will reach a higher BAC compared to a male of the same weight, drinking the same amount of alcohol.
• "Thinking" skills, like perceiving and evaluating risks, or processing information are not easily visible to outside observers, but they are the first skills to be adversely affected by alcohol.
• Estimates indicate that 35-40 percent of fatally injured drinking drivers had a prior DUI conviction.
• All 50 states and the District of Columbia have "zero tolerance" laws for drivers under 21.
• Three out of four American adults (78%) don't know the number of standard drinks an average person would need to consume in one hour to reach a .08 BAC.
• Only 17% of Americans know standard servings of alcohol (12 oz beer, 5 oz wine, 1.5 oz distilled spirits) have the same impact on an individual's BAC level.