People like to take time off from their busy schedules to relax with their friends. Often, this involves alcohol consumption. You might go to a bar and have a few drinks with your friends. You might be out on the lake, drinking and boating. Whatever you do, you should remember that alcohol can add danger to the situation if you or anyone who has been drinking decides to drive.
Driving a car home from the bar, you may be impaired more than you know. Usually, driving home after drinking, you are coming down off of your drunkenness. This is the point when most people underestimate how inebriated they are. If you are pulled over by the police, you will be charged with a DWI. If you are not pulled over, it is possible that driving drunk will end with serious injury or death.
Some people think that the rule of the roads do not apply to them when they are operating a boat; however, this is not true. People often drink heavily when they are out with friends on a boat. However, drinking and boating is much the same as drinking and driving. The dangers in boating while intoxicated are just as high as with driving while intoxicated, and sometimes higher. On the water there are no marked lanes for traffic to follow. This means that accidents due to alcohol use are far more likely.
Speak with a Minneapolis Personal Injury Lawyer Today
Mixing alcohol and driving of any type of vehicle is a bad idea, and can lead to serious injury or even death. If you or someone you know has been injured by a drunk driver, contact the Minneapolis personal injury attorneys of Terry, Slane & Ruohonen at 612-362-0000.
