Turkey. Turkey’s treatment of drunk drivers has always been something of a legend, because police officers were known to drive intoxicated drivers 20 miles out into the desert and force them to march back to civilization.

The Effects of Drunk Driving on Society Economic costs include lost productivity, legal and court expenses, medical costs, insurance bills, traffic congestion, and property damage. Comparatively, men are involved in more alcohol-related car accidents than women (typically three times as often).

Impaired driving can cause accidents that lead to paralysis, disfigurement, brain damage, and even death. Impaired driving is also a crime. Drunk drivers often pay significant fines, lose their license. and face higher insurance costs.

South Africa has strict DUI laws and rightfully so. The country sees over 45% of all unnatural deaths result from drinking and driving. While offenders face penalties similar to those of the United States (such as license suspension and monetary punishments), they also risk spending up to six years in jail.

Colombia: Colombia is known to have the toughest penalties against those driving under the influence in all of Latin America and practice a zero tolerance policy on DUIs.

DUI’s Don’t Exist Everywhere While you may think it’s common sense that every country has laws to prevent people from getting drunk and getting behind the wheel, this is not the case across the globe. Not every country has the concept of DUI’s.

(Russia’s Duma Passes Tough Law on Drunk-Driving, RUSSIA TODAY (Mar. As of September 1, 2013, driving while intoxicated will be punishable with an administrative fine of between RUB30,000-50,000 (about US$920-1,600) or suspension of the driver’s license for up to three years.

Drinks per hour rule The general rule of thumb is that 2 standard drinks in the first hour will raise your BAC to 0.05%, and 1 standard per hour thereafter will maintain that level. To do a quick calculation of whether you are over 0.05% BAC, simply take the number of hours since your first drink and add 1 to it.

For most people, a single unit of alcohol takes around two hours to metabolise. For ordinary-strength beer, the legal limit is approximately two pints, so you would need four hours to metabolise the extra two pints. However, this should be regarded as an absolute lower bound; lots of factors can increase this time.

A very approximate guide would be to give yourself an hour per unit of alcohol before driving. For example, if you’ve had a glass of wine worth 2.8 units, you should wait for about three hours before getting behind the wheel.

Once alcohol mixes with your blood, there is only one way to get it out of there. You have to wait. A common guideline is that after each typical drink, you must wait 45 minutes before attempting to drive. If you have another drink, you must add another 45 minutes.

The average urine test can detect alcohol between 12 and 48 hours after drinking. More advanced testing can measure alcohol in the urine 80 hours after you drink. Breath tests for alcohol can detect alcohol within a shorter time frame. This is about 24 hours on average.

So How Long Should You Wait to Drive After Drinking? The problem with a “rule of thumb” for sobering up is that all people process alcohol at different rates. Remember: the “one hour” rule means wait one hour per beverage, not wait 60 minutes after five hours of beer and cocktails.

One pint of beer remains in your system for 2 hours. Four pints of beer remains in your system for 8 hours. Eight pints of beer remains in your system for 16 hours.

For example, The Daily Telegraph said, “drinking up to two 1.4 pints of beer a day for men and half of that for women” could benefit heart health. However, the researchers define a healthy limit as “up to” one drink a day for women and two for men.

The body generally processes approximately one standard drink per hour. If you have 5 standard drinks, it will take 5 hours for your body to process the alcohol.