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DWI Information
Drunk driving, sometimes called driving while intoxicated (DWI) or driving under the influence (DUI), has two meanings:
Driving with a blood alcohol level over the state's maximum permissible blood alcohol limit. The limit for adults is either 0.08% or 0.10%. As of October 2000, the following 19 jurisdictions used the 0.08% standard to define drunken or impaired driving: Alabama, California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, and Washington State. All other states used 0.10% except Massachusetts and South Carolina which do not use numerical limits.
Drunk driving, sometimes called driving while intoxicated (DWI) or driving under the influence (DUI), has two meanings:
Driving with a blood alcohol level over the state's maximum permissible blood alcohol limit. The limit for adults is either 0.08% or 0.10%. As of October 2000, the following 19 jurisdictions used the 0.08% standard to define drunken or impaired driving: Alabama, California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Vermont, and Washington State. All other states used 0.10% except Massachusetts and South Carolina which do not use numerical limits.
DWI Information
There are tremendous pressures to "do something". In 1997, according to the United States Department of Transportation, 38.6% of all traffic deaths were there were alcohol-related -- a total of 16,189 alcohol-related traffic deaths. (Fifteen years earlier, in 1982, alcohol-related deaths represented 57.3% of that year's 43,945 total traffic fatalities.)
In addition, a study done by the National Highway Safety Administration reported that the risk of a driver with a 0.10% blood alcohol content (BAC) being in fatal accident is many times greater than a driver with a 0.08% BAC.
Despite the fact that drivers are leaglly drunk at between 0.08% - 0.10% depending on the state, the head of the Montana State Police stated that the average driver arrested for a DUI in Montana has a 0.17% BAC. Thus most of those arrested for a DUI or DWI are way over the line.
There are tremendous pressures to "do something". In 1997, according to the United States Department of Transportation, 38.6% of all traffic deaths were there were alcohol-related -- a total of 16,189 alcohol-related traffic deaths. (Fifteen years earlier, in 1982, alcohol-related deaths represented 57.3% of that year's 43,945 total traffic fatalities.)
In addition, a study done by the National Highway Safety Administration reported that the risk of a driver with a 0.10% blood alcohol content (BAC) being in fatal accident is many times greater than a driver with a 0.08% BAC.
Despite the fact that drivers are leaglly drunk at between 0.08% - 0.10% depending on the state, the head of the Montana State Police stated that the average driver arrested for a DUI in Montana has a 0.17% BAC. Thus most of those arrested for a DUI or DWI are way over the line.
DWI Answers
In most states, there are three ways of determining how much alcohol you have in your system: breath or blood (and in 8 states, including California, urine). Usually, you can choose which test you want to take.
If you choose breath, you will blow into a machine called a Breathalyzer that will determine the blood alcohol in your breath. Many jurisdictions permit you to have a second test and/or a blood or urine test. This is because a breath sample is not saved and so cannot later be re-analyzed by the defense.
In most states, there are three ways of determining how much alcohol you have in your system: breath or blood (and in 8 states, including California, urine). Usually, you can choose which test you want to take.
If you choose breath, you will blow into a machine called a Breathalyzer that will determine the blood alcohol in your breath. Many jurisdictions permit you to have a second test and/or a blood or urine test. This is because a breath sample is not saved and so cannot later be re-analyzed by the defense.
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