The planning and development of occupant safety programs (ex: air bags, seatbelts, child cars seats).
What is Occupant Protection?
A seat belt violation carries this fine.
What is $25?
Two types of Mississippi speeding laws
What are the Absolute Speed Limit and the Basic Speeding laws?
True or False...
Alcohol is a drug.
What is True?
BAC stands for _____ and it measures the amount of alcohol in a person's bloodstream.
What is Blood Alcohol Concentration?
Operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of any intoxicating substance/drug.
What is Impaired Driving?
The purpose of this presentation
What is increasing awareness and decreasing the number of fatalities of young drivers aged 16-20 years old?
The 1st state to implement a seat belt law.
What is New York?
The speed limit is 50 miles per hour and you drive faster than that, you’ve violated this law
What is Absolute Speed Limit?
The 3 categories of alcohol are
What is liquor, wine, and beer?
A person over 21 is legally intoxicated if he/she has a BAC of _____ or higher.
What is .08%?
The age group, ________, are already 10x's more likely to be involved in a fatal car crash due to lack of experience. However when alcohol is involved, they become 17x's more likely to be involved in a fatal crash.
What is 16-20?
___ years and younger must sit in the back seat of a moving vehicle.
What is 12?
In Mississippi, the amended seatbelt law now requires _______ to buckle up in a moving car, truck, or SUV.
What is everyone?
Operating a vehicle in “willful or a wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property.”
What is reckless driving?
A pattern of drinking alcohol that brings blood alcohol concentration to 0.08% of higher in one occasion.
This typically happens if a woman has 4 or more drinks or a man has 5 or more drinks, within 2 hours
What is binge drinking?
The instrument used by officers to detect alcohol in a person system
What is a breathalyzer?
True or False...
You can get a DUI if caught operating a Hot Air Balloon, Tractor, or even an electric scooter while under the influence of Alcohol.
What is True?
In 2021, This percent of front seat passengers that were killed in crashes were not wearing a seatbelt.
What is 53%?
The date in which ALL vehicles were to be fitted with seatbelts but voluntary to wear.
What is January 1, 1968?
You run a red light when no one is around, what driving violation have you committed?
What is Careless?
Liquor=1.5oz, Wine=5oz, Beer=12oz are all _____.
What are standard serving sizes of alcohol?
The only way to decrease BAC!
What is Time?
Fines, probation, community service, high insurance rates, disappointed parents, required classes and rehab, jail, or even death are all _______ of youth impaired driving.
What are consequences?
In 2020, this percentage of male drivers between the ages of 15-20 were involved in speeding related fatalities.
What is 35%?
The percentage in which seat belts reduce fatalities
What is 50-65?
The approximate number of people killed every year due to speeding related car crashes.
What is 12,000?
Drinking too much can weaken your _______, making your body a much easier target for disease.
Drinking a lot on a single occasion slows your body's ability to fight off infections- even up to 24 hours after getting drunk.
What is immune system?
Different factors that _____ a person's BAC is: the number of standard drinks, how quickly you drink, weight, gender, medications, food in the stomach.
This law make it illegal for those under the age of 21 to drive with even a small amount of alcohol in their system.
What is the Zero Tolerance law?