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DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE SERVICES PROGRAMS PRESS PUBLICATIONS DEPARTMENTS CONTACT Driving Under the Influence -- Driving Under the Influence is defined as operating a motor vehicle while impaired by alcohol, other drugs or intoxicating compounds. In Illinois, a driver is legally considered to be under the influence if he/she has a blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) of .08 percent or greater, has used any illegal substance, or is impaired by medication. A driver's BAC is based on the ratio of alcohol to blood or breath. However, an individual showing alcohol levels between .05 and .08 percent may be convicted of DUI if additional evidence determines that the driver was impaired. When the Illinois General Assembly passed legislation in 1997 to lower the illegal BAC limit to .08 percent from .10 percent, Illinois became the 15th state to impose such a change. The effect of alcohol on an individual is determined primarily by two factors: the amount of alcohol consumedand the rate at which it is absorbed by the body. Other contributing factors include gender, body weight, alcohol tolerance, mood, environment and the amount of food consumed. From the first drink, alcohol affects coordination and judgment. Even with a BAC well below .08 percent, a person's reaction time slows. The risk of being in a crash begins to increase between a BAC of .04 and .05 percent and increases rapidly thereafter. By the time a driver reaches a BAC of .06 percent, he/she is twice as likely to be involved in a fatal crash as a non-drinking driver. By the time a driver reaches a BAC of .08 percent, he/she is 11 times more likely to be killed in a single-vehicle crash than a non-drinking driver. The only way to rid the body of alcohol is time. Fresh air, coffee, a shower and food cannot help a person sober up. It takes about one hour for the body to metabolize one drink. Each of the following has a comparable amount of alcohol and counts as one drink: one 12-oz. mug of beer, one 5-oz. glass of wine or one 1.5-oz. shot of hard liquor. Table of Contents Message | DUI | DUI Facts | Chronology of a DUI Arrest | Statutory Summary Suspension | Penalties for a DUI Conviction | Driving with a BAC of .16 or Greater | DUI with a Child in the Vehicle | Penalties for Other Alcohol-Related Offenses | Administrative License Revocations | Judicial Hearings | Driving Permits | Driver's License Reinstatement | Case Dispositions | Average Cost of a DUI Conviction | "Use It & Lose It" | Offenses Related to Underage Drinking | Secretary of State Programs | Victims Rights | Emergency Room Reporting of Injured Impaired Drivers | History of DUI Laws in Illinois | This edition of the DUI Fact Book is as accurate as possible at the time of publication. This manual does not cover every aspect of Illinois' DUI laws and should not be cited as a legal authority in court. BACK TO CYBERDRIVEILLINOIS.COM HOME PAGE

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NJ-DWI - NJ Drunk Driving Defense Information Contact Peter H. Lederman, Esq. Law offices of Lomurro, Davison, Eastman and Munoz Driving While Intoxicated.. DWI is a serious offense in New Jersey. The Court must impose mandatory license suspensions, fines, surcharges and in certain cases, jail. The Division of Motor Vehicles must also impose a mandatory insurance surcharge from $3,000 to $3,500. A permanent record of the DWI conviction is also entered on the Drivers Abstract maintained by the New Jersey Division of Motor Vehicles. Penalties differ depending upon whether the offense is a first, second or subsequent offense. We defend DWI charges every day in Courts throughout the State of New Jersey . Our philosophy is that you can not win a DWI case unless you try to win. For this reason, we try almost all of our cases to a verdict unless a better result can be achieved without trial. We make the State prove its case both in trial and in pre-trial suppression motions. We search for all possible evidence which might make the difference in winning a case. We vigorously cross-examine police officers regarding field sobriety tests and observations claimed to suggest intoxication. We work regularly with the top DWI expert in the State of New Jersey, who can attack breath test results and field sobriety test results when these tests have not been correctly administered. My practice is limited to defending drivers charged with Driving While Intoxicated and related offenses. I have been defending drivers charged with DWI over the past 26 years. Over that time, I have had the opportunity of acting as a Municipal Prosecutor, Chairman of the New Jersey State Bar Association Municipal Court Section, testifying before the legislature on issues involving DWI, and instructing other attorneys in how to defend defendants charged with Driving While Intoxicated, on behalf of the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education " NJICLE" . I have also had articles published in the New Jersey Lawyer on Standardized Field Sobriety Tests, which are the tests administered on the road to determine whether a suspect should be arrested for a breath test. We consider each case to be important. We recognize the severity of mandatory fines, suspensions and surcharges. We vigorously and aggressively defend every case accordingly. If you feel that we can be of assistance, call to discuss your case or contact us to make an appointment . There is no charge for the initial consultation. We can discuss the defenses which might be raised and the fees involved. Our office is centrally located in New Jersey and accessable to all major highways. You should give careful consideration to the selection of an attorney, as proper representation can make a substantial difference in the outcome of your case. We hope we can be of service to you. Peter H. Lederman Home | Proposed DWI/ DUI Reforms | DWI News Field Sobriety Testing - Facts and Fiction | Feedback | Search NJ DWI NJ-DWI Table of Contents | Contact our Law offices Lomurro, Davison, Eastman & Munoz Visit the New Jersey DWI Defense Pages! All contents Peter H. Lederman, PA , NJ-DWI.COM Dark Horse Design Promoted by Submit Away Website Promotions Best viewed with

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Blood Alcohol Levels MODELING BLOOD ALCOHOL LEVELS Part A: The Situation Terry, a twenty-five year-old taxi driver, is out with some friendsat a bar. Terry and two others are not drinking any alcoholic beveragestonight. A fourth friend is drinking beer; the fifth is drinking shotsof tequila; the sixth is drinking wine. As the six friends start theirevening, Terry is wondering about the following questions: Knowing that the legal blood alcohol limit is 0.1% in this state (fordriving), how many drinks will it take for the three to exceed that limit? Will the blood alcohol get broken down faster if a person drinks a lotat the beginning, or drinks smaller amounts over a longer period of time?(the total amount of alcohol is the same) Once they've become "illegal", how many hours will it take before theyare below the legal limit again? Unfortunately, there was no easy way for Terry to answer these questions.The next day, still thinking about these issues, he called up a local governmenthealth agency and asked them. They didn't know the answers, but decidedto hire some consultants to find out. They hired (at a very expensive hourlyrate) some expert human physiologists to investigate-- you! Your assignment is to use your knowledge of stocks and flows to builda STELLA computer model of the breakdown of alcohol in the body. You willuse this model to help answer his questions. Your fee will be presentedupon completion. Part B: Alcohol Degradation: Model I Building a model is like writing a paper: First you do a rough draft,then you do a final copy. With a model, you start with a quick approximatemodel, test it, and see what makes sense and what doesn't. Then you canchange your assumptions behind the model to make it more complex (and moreaccurate). Your first model will have four assumptions: The blood alcohol will decrease at a constant rate. It takes about six hours for a person to sober up. This person is already intoxicated at the legal level. There is no increase in alcohol (i.e., this person has stopped drinking). Place a "stock" (or "reservoir") for the blood alcohol level by loadingSTELLA, and then going to the second "level" of the program by clickingonce on the downward arrow button at the top left side of the screen. Clickonce on the "stock" icon at the top left which looks like a rectangle.Then click once in the screen field to place the stock on the screen. Labelthe stock "Blood Alcohol" by just typing it in. Now you are going to place a "flow" going out of the blood alcohol stock. Question 1 What should the outflow for blood alcohol be called? In other words,what process directly decreases the level of alcohol in your blood? (Hint:It has nothing to do with the kidneys) Place the outflow on the screen. Click the flow icon at the top of the screen. Hold down the mouse button on top of the stock and drag it right severalinches. While the flow is highlighted, type the name of your outflow. Now that you have created the structure of your model, you need tofill in the details. Click the globe in the upper left corner of the screen; it should changeto a large x2 . This lets STELLA know that you want to enter the mathematical relationshipsin the model. Question 2 In many states you are legally intoxicated when 0.1% (1 ml of alcohol/1000ml blood) of your blood is alcohol. If a person has 6000 milliliters ofblood with 0.1% alcohol concentration, how many milliliters of alcoholare in his system? Set the initial value of the Blood Alcohol. Double-click the stock "Blood Alcohol". Type the number of milliliters of alcohol that you gave for the previousquestion. Click the OK button. Note that the question mark has disappeared, meaning you have entereda value for that element. Question 3 Given the initial amount of alcohol, how many milliliters of alcoholwill need to be removed each hour in order for all the alcohol to be goneafter six hours? Set the outflow to your answer for question 3. Double-click your outflow. Type in your answer to the previous question. Click OK. The blood alcohol will go down that many milliliters each hour. Make a graph so you can see the simulation. Click the graph icon at the top of the screen. Click below your stock/flow assembly. (You should see a blank graph.) Choose Define Graph...from the Model menu. Tell STELLA what elements to graph. Click "Blood Alcohol" in the left hand list Click the button. Click OK to go back to the graph. Before you run the simulation, make a prediction. Draw a graph of thelevel of blood alcohol as it changes over the course of 12 hours. Run the simulation. Choose Run from the Run menu. Draw the simulation result on the following graph. Question 4 Is this graph what you expected? If not, explain. Close the graph window and go back to the diagram. Click the box in the upper left corner of the graph window. You will now modify your model to make it more accurate, adding thisassumption: The rate at which alcohol is broken down depends upon the amountof alcohol in the blood. The model which you constructed above assumes something different--that the rate at which alcohol is broken down stays the same regardlessof the amount that is in the body. We know intuitively that this isn'tthe case. To be really clear in your own mind, think about the next twoquestions. Question 5 Suppose there is a very high concentration of alcohol in the blood. Will the body remove more, less, or the same amount of alcohol per houras it would when there is a low concentration of alcohol in the blood? Why? Question 6 How much alcohol will be removed per hour when the concentration ofalcohol in the blood is zero? Blood Alcohol Levels-Part 2 Now let's assume a more realistic model like this: Each hour, 30% of theblood alcohol is removed. Though this percentage remains constant, therate of breakdown is always changing, because when the blood alcohol contentis high, 30% of a big number is a relatively big number, and when the bloodalcohol content is low, 30% of a smaller number is smaller . So the rateof blood alcohol breakdown is always changing because the blood alcoholcontent is always changing. We can build this 30% breakdown rate into our model using the "converter"icon in the tool bar. It looks like a circle (in the upper-left of thescreen). * Click once on the converter icon. * Then click on the screen near your flow to place the converterinto the model. * Give the converter the name MULTIPLIER. * Double click on the converter and enter 0.30 which is the 30%breakdown rate that we want. * Now connect the converter to the flow with a connector (thered arrow icon). To do this click once on the connector icon, then aimthe pointer arrow right in the converter and click and hold themouse, then drag while holding the mouse button down overto the big circle part of the flow icon until you see it turn gray; thenlet go of the mouse. If you have done this correctly, there should be anarrow connecting the converter to the flow; if not, try it again. Thisconnector arrow shows that alcohol breakdown depends on the converter. The breakdown of alcohol depends also on the amount of alcoholin the blood, as we have been saying. So use another connector to connectthe blood alcohol reservoir to the flow. Do this like you did the otherconnection. * Click once on the connector icon and then aim the pointer arrowright in the reservoir. Then click and hold the mouse, and dragthe arrow while holding the mouse button down over to the bigcircle part of the flow icon until you see it turn gray; then let go ofthe mouse. If you have done this correctly, there should be an arrow connectingthe converter to the flow; if not, try it again. Now you are ready to write an equation in the flow which describes thebreakdown of alcohol per unit of time. If 30% of the blood alcohol is brokendown in any given unit of time, you can indicate this quantity mathematicallyas 0.30 times the amount of blood alcohol. Stella will then subtract foryou this amount from the current amount of blood alcohol to give the newamount of blood alcohol at the next time step. So... * Click twice on the big circle part of the flow icon and simplytype 0.30*blood alcohol (notice the multiply sign on a computeris the asterisk). * Then click O.K. Before you simulate, make a prediction of how the alcohol changes overtime. Draw your prediction of the level of blood alcohol on graph likethe one below. To make your graph (over time) look nicer, set a range for alcohol. Choose Range in the Run menu. Click "Blood Alcohol." Type in a range of 0 to 10 (just type a 10 in the Max. box) Click Set. Click OK to go back to the diagram. Run your model. Double-click the graph to see your axes. Choose Run from the Run menu. Draw the resulting graph. Question 11 Was the simulation run the same as you predicted? If not, why not? Keep trying until you get a good simulation run. If your model doesnot give the result you expect, take another look at your graphical relation.You might need to change the scale of your graphical relation. Keep simulatinguntil the alcohol is gradually neutralized, with about 90% gone after sixhours. Make sure you draw a prediction each time you simulate. Get rid of the graph by clicking the small box at the top left once. Question 12 Draw or print your final model. Explain what the model does. Part D: Alcohol Degradation while Drinking Now the you have a working model of alcohol degradation, you can seehow quickly a drink is broken down. Question 13 What should the inflow for blood alcohol be called? In other words,what directly increases the level of alcohol in your blood? Place your inflow on the screen. Click the flow icon at the top of the screen. Hold down the mouse, starting about an inch to the left of the stock,and drag the flow on top of the stock. Release the mouse button when the stock turns grey. Type the name of your inflow. To tell STELLA that a person has had a drink, you will create anothergraphical function, this one over time. Double-click your inflow and type "time." Click Become Graph. Set the scale of your graphical function to 0 through 5 on the verticalaxis. Click the picture of a graph on the lower left hand corner. It shouldturn into a series of horizontal steps. If you don't see the steps, clickagain on the graph picture until you do. Tell STELLA that you will take a drink containing 4 milliliters ofalcohol at 2 hours after the start of the simulation. Type "4" in the right hand "Output" column next to the "2" in the "Input"column. Click OK to go back to the diagram. Set the initial level of alcohol to 0. Double-click the stock of blood alcohol. Type "0" Click OK. Show a horizontal line at 0.1% blood alcohol, the legal limit. In your STELLA model, create a "converter" by first clicking on the o icon at the top of the screen. Then click near your model to place the converter on the screen. Namethe icon "Legal Limit." Double click on the converter. Place the appropriate # mils that wouldgive a person a 0.1% blood alcohol level ( see your answer for question2 at the beginning of the lab). Click OK when done. Tell STELLA to plot a horizontal line at this level by clicking theRUN menu and selecting Range. Click on Legal limit then type 10 in theMax. box and click Set Then click OK. Double click on your graph icon.The graph should appear. In the Diagram menu again select Define GraphClick once on Legal limit then click the button. Then click OK. Before you run the simulation, make a prediction on the axes. Run the simulation. Draw the simulation result on a graph. Get rid of the graph by clicking once on the small box in the upperleft. Now you will attempt to answer terry's questions, listed in the beginningof this worksheet. Set up a simulation where a person takes 3 drinks, with an alcohol contentof four milliliters each, within one hour. Do this by going to the graphicalrelation in your inflow, and enter an output of 12 at input 1. (Make output0 at input 2) This tells STELLA your person drinks 12 milliliters of alcoholin an hour. Set the range of the y axis from the graph from 0 to 15 (usingthe Range menu item in the Run menu). Set it for BOTH blood alcohol ANDlegal limit (type 15 in each "Max." box and click "Set" after typing each).Click OK when done setting BOTH ranges to 15. Sketch your Prediction: Double click the graph icon to see your graph. Then select Run in theRun menu. Draw or print the Simulation Result: Now, your person is going to spread the three drinks over several hours.Set the inflow with a four milliliter drink at 1 hour, another at hour2, and another at hour 3. Sketch your Prediction: Draw or print the Simulation Result: Question 14 After 6 hours, which simulation has the lowest amount of blood alcohol? Using your model, determine the answers to Terry's other two questions. Question 15 How many drinks (of four milliliters alcohol content each) will it takefor Terry's friends to go above the legal limit? Question 16 Once they've become "illegal," how many hours will it take before theyare below the legal limit again? (Estimate this both for one drink of 12ml at hour 1 AND three drinks of 4 ml each at hours 1, 2, and 3.) Back to Part I This paper has been edited from an original work by: William Glass Catalina Foothills High School

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