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.
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Do you know how many drinks you can have before you're in danger of getting a drunken driving violation?
PA State Police along with Sewickley, Edgeworth and Leetsdale police under the West Hills DUI Task Force 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, officers ask them to perform field sobriety tests and to take a breath test to measure Blood Alcohol Content.
A BAC test measures the percentage of alcohol present in a person's bloodstream. Pennsylvania's legal limit is 0.08.
According to the Virginia Tech Alcohol Abuse Prevention website, every 40 minutes, 0.01 percent of alcohol leaves your system.
Check out the charts in the media portion of this article to see what your limit is. And remember, how you feel also depends on your alcohol tolerance.
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