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THE EFFECTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL

• Alcohol reduces your brain function, affecting thinking, reasoning and muscle coordination. All of these skills are essential to driving a vehicle safely.
• The higher the amount of alcohol in a person's body, the greater the negative effects on their central nervous system.
• Alcohol slows down your ability to react.
• It becomes difficult to control your car on the road, you start to drive in a zigzag manner, putting yourself and others in danger.
• Your eyesight is impaired and you cannot see the traffic signs clearly, pedestrians, or other moving vehicles.
• Alcohol can cause sleepiness while driving.

Here in Aruba you can notice a large number of weekly traffic incidents and accidents that are caused by driving under the influence of alcohol.

As per procedure and what the law stipulates, drivers that are suspected to have driven while under the influence of Alcohol, must undergo an alcohol test, which here in Aruba takes place primarily by means of a ‘Breathalyzer’. The suspect must exhale and the results must not exceed 220 ug/l for exhalation.

The safest option is to choose to abstain from alcohol while driving. Even a small amount of alcohol can affect your ability to drive a car. There is also no reliable way to determine or check that you are within the legal limit of alcohol.

The safest option is to choose to abstain from alcohol while driving. Even a small amount of alcohol can affect your ability to drive a car. There is also no reliable way to determine or check that you are within the legal limit of alcohol.

If you have plans to drink, get your designated driving Friend as we call it here in Aruba: Your Amigo Didi.