Crime & Safety
Chart: How Many Drinks Will Get You a DUI?
If you insist on driving after a few drinks to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, here's what you should know about how alcohol affects your system—and your criminal record.
Do you know how many drinks that you can have before you're in danger of drunken driving?
Baldwin Borough, Whitehall Borough and Baldwin Township police are always on the lookout for drunk drivers, particularly over the St. Patrick's Day weekend.
When police pull drivers over for suspected drunken driving, they often ask them to perform field-sobriety tests and to take breath-analyzer tests to measure blood-alcohol content (BAC).
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A BAC test measures the percentage of alcohol that is present in a person's bloodstream. Pennsylvania's legal limit is 0.08 percent.
According to the Virginia Tech Campus Alcohol Abuse Prevention Center, every 40 minutes, 0.01 percent of alcohol leaves your system.
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Check out the men's and women's charts found in the media gallery near the top of this article page to see what your limit is. And remember, how you feel also depends on your alcohol tolerance.
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