Chevrolet 1995 Blazer Owner's Manual page 158

The body takes about an hour to rid itself of the alcohol in one drink. No
amount of coffee
or
number of
cold
showers
will speed that up. "I'll be
careful" 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 person with
even
a
moderate 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, especially injuries to the brain, spinal cord or heart.
This means that when anyone who has been drinking
-
driver or passenger
- is in a crash, that person's chance of being killed or permanently disabled
is higher than if the person had not been drinking.
Control of a Vehicle
You have three systems that make your vehicle go where you want it to go.
They are the brakes, the steering and the accelerator. All three systems have
to do their work at the places where the tires meet the road.
Sometimes, as when you're driving on snow or ice, it's easy to ask more of
those control systems than the tires and road can provide. That means you
can lose control of your vehicle.
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