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"I'll be carehl" isn't the right answer. What if there's an emergency, a need
to take sudden action, as when a child darts into the street? A
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with a
bgher BAC might not be able to react quickly enough to avoid the collision.
There's something else about drinking-and driving that many people don't
know. Medical research shows that alcohol in a person's system can make
crash injuries worse. That's especially true
for brain, spinal cord and heart
injuries. That means that if anyone who has been drinking
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driver or
passenger
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is in a crash, the chance of being killed or permanently
disabled is higher than if that person had not been drinking. And we've
already seen that the chance of a crash itself is higher for drinking drivers.
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