VIDEO: Mom’s Drunk Driving Could Have Killed the Baby, but God Was Watching

Everyone knows that drinking and driving is not only illegal but also incredibly wrong because it could lead to your death or to the death of others. Still people sometimes do not think about the consequences of their actions and do it anyway.
This is the case of this mom that didn’t drive the right way because of her state and her car flipped over. The miracle was that her one-year-old was unharmed in the process.

According to Verywell, a driver with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.10 or greater is seven times more likely to be involved in a fatal motor vehicle crash than is a driver who has not consumed alcoholic beverages, and a driver with an alcohol concentration of 0.15 or greater is about 25 times more likely.

Here is some information on the effects alcohol has on the cognitive processes, provided by Wikipedia.

Alcohol has a very significant effect on the functions of the body which are vital to driving and being able to function. Alcohol is a depressant, which mainly affects the function of the brain. Alcohol first affects the most vital components of the brain and “when the brain cortex is released from its functions of integrating and control, processes related to judgment and behavior occur in a disorganized fashion and the proper operation of behavioral tasks becomes disrupted.” In all actuality alcohol weakens a variety of skills that are necessary to perform everyday tasks.

One of the main effects of alcohol is severely impairing a person’s ability to shift attention from one thing to another, “without significantly impairing sensory motor functions.” This indicates that people who are intoxicated are not able to properly shift their attention without affecting the senses. People that are intoxicated also have a much more narrow area of usable vision than people who are sober. The information the brain receives from the eyes “becomes disrupted if eyes must be turned to the side to detect stimuli, or if eyes must be moved quickly from one point to another.”

Several testing mechanisms are used to gauge a person’s ability to drive, which indicate levels of intoxication. One of these is referred to as a tracking task, testing hand–eye coordination, in which “the task is to keep an object on a prescribed path by controlling its position through turning a steering wheel. Impairment of performance is seen at BACs of as little as 0.7 milligrams per milliliter (mg/ml).” Another form of tests is a choice reaction task, which deals more primarily with cognitive function. In this form of testing both hearing and vision are tested and drivers must give a “response according to rules that necessitate mental processing before giving the answer.” This is a useful gauge because in an actual driving situation drivers must divide their attention “between a tracking task and surveillance of the environment.” It has been found that even “very low BACs are sufficient to produce significant impairment of performance” in this area of thought process.

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