Officials, from local cops to the state transportation experts, on to federal regulators are all trying to get the point across this New Year’s Eve, and, frankly, the rest of the year, too.
Don’t drink and drive.
Not even a little.
The Tribune has been presenting the arguments, and there are plenty, involving the potential cost and the legal ramifications that you face when you try to guess how much booze you can consume and still legally get behind the wheel of a car.
But the real gamble doesn’t involve the legal problems to being cited for DUI.
The real problem are the thousands of people in the U.S. who are no longer living because of alcohol-related wrecks in 2010, the families who are destroyed by this tragedy, the guilt that is left for those who are driving impaired, the list of tragic figures goes on and on.
And all because bad decisions were made.
If the decision is, always, you drink, you don’t drive, then the rest of the issues are solved.
That is the critical step.
If you are still trying to figure out how much you can drink and legally drive — you are part of the problem.
Stop it.
Get someone else to drive, or stay home.
It really is a matter of life or death.
— Chuck Smith