Know the Law
This is the legal BAC limit in NYS for drivers 21 and older to be charged with DWI.
What is 0.08%?
This organ does the most work in ridding alcohol from your body.
What is the liver?
Under NYS law, this is the acronym for driving while impaired by the use of any drug, legal or illegal.
What is DWAI-Drug?
This disease, a common result of chronic alcohol abuse, replaces healthy liver tissue with scar tissue.
What is a cirrhosis?
The best time to plan your safe ride home.
What is before you go out/before drinking?
This is the name of the NYS law that prohibits drivers under 21 from driving with a BAC between 0.02% and 0.07%
What is the Zero Tolerance Law?
Alcohol is classified as this type of drug, which slows down the central nervous system.
What is a depressant?
Combining alcohol with these, often found in a medicine cabinet, intensifies impairment and increases crash risk.
What are prescriptions/medications?
Heavy alcohol or marijuana use can interrupt the development of this organ, which is not fully developed until age 25.
What is the brain?
This is the term for a person who abstains from alcohol at a social function to provide a safe ride home.
What is a designated driver?
This is the automatic penalty for refusing to take a breathalyzer or chemical test in NYS.
What is license revocation?
This is the only thing that can sober a person up.
What is time?
You can be charged with DWI even if you have a valid prescription for the medication causing impairment.
What is True?
This term describes a condition in which a person needs more of a drug to feel the original effects.
What is tolerance?
This, along with water, can help your body process alcohol more slowly.
What is food?
This is the type of test, along with breath and urine, that police can require to measure BAC.
What is a blood test?
Alcohol slows this down, making the body unable to respond quickly to situations.
What is reaction time?
Besides blood tests, this type of testimony from a police officer about your behavior can be enough to convict you in NYS.
What is observational testimony?
If you cause injury or death while driving drugged, you could be charged with this, which carries up to 25 years in jail.
What is Vehicular Manslaughter or Assault?
If you are hosting a party, it is your responsibility to make sure all guests leave with one of these.
What is a sober driver?
In 1910, this state became the first to pass a law regulating DWI.
What is New York?
Alcohol lowers these mental or psychological processes that restrain actions and emotions.
What are inhibitions?
This, the most common drug found in fatal crashes, is often the target of Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) evaluations.
What is Marijuana/THC?
A DWI conviction can lead to a 5-year ban from entering this neighboring country.
What is Canada?
This 4-word safety campaign by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reminds drivers that law enforcement is actively looking for impaired drivers.
What is "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over"?