Check out this webpage that I found through the Illinois Department of Transportation. www.startseeingmotorcycles.org/
Summer motorcycle-riding season is here. Temperatures are high, the pavement is hot, and there's nothing like an ice-cold beer on a hot afternoon. But having a cold one and jumping back on the bike is not a good combination.
Even one beer can have an impact on your riding skills. It becomes easier to misjudge the speed and weight of a large motorcycle when stopping or when making a turn, especially if it's one with which you are unfamiliar.
Then you get to find out what the real impact is after having one or more beers.
And, when you get to the hospital, they draw blood. They don't ask first. What does the hospital do with the blood-test results? Does the accident investigator have to ask for them, or are they routinely provided to the investigating law enforcement agency? Does a hospital report them back to the law enforcement agency, whether the results are 0.00% or 0.04% or worse?
If you are going to stop at bars when you are out riding, I suggest going the Coke or Ginger Ale route. Hold off on the Coors (ahh, showing my Colorado colors; eh?) or whatever your favorite brew is, 'til your bike is safely back in the garage at home.
Hey, I know you're not going to take my advice, but there it is.
4 comments:
Cite please, that one beer impairs a person's ability to drive a motorcycle. Also need a cite that under 0.04 causes impairment.
Is it fair to ask what you would like the law to be, or what you think it should be... is it fair for that law to apply to anyone else?
If we were measuring impairment, when would age impair a person?
For a guy who stands up for the Second Amendment, your certainly a guy who likes the guvimnt in our lives ... in a close special way.
How about having a "cold one" at several stops on a nice afternoon of motorcycle riding?
If a motorcycle operator loses control, leaves the roadway, flips the bike, hits a tree after a few "cold ones" (or any other alcoholic beverage), wouldn't it be appropriate to suspect that alcohol had some role in the crash?
Maybe not. My nephew could down quite a few and still ride his motorcycle. He told me that on one poker run, one of his buddies challenged him to ride a pylon course set up in a bar's parking lot. He said he had never ridden such a tight course so easily as the day he was drunk on his bike. Glad he was nearly 1,000 miles away. RIP, T.B.
You didn't respond to my post (which is forgivable because sometimes I don't directly respond to yours), but
Is alcohol so myterious that any amount found after an accident immediately makes that the reason for the accident.
Spooky stuff.
I think it's that way because we have so many post alcoholics who never really had any control over alcohol.
I'll agree that "any" amount of alcohol, known or suspected, is not automatically "the" reason for the accident. It is, in my opinion, reason to investigate further.
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