{"id":125,"date":"2014-11-26T04:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seidmanlaw-net.lawblogger.net\/blog\/buzzed-drivers-in-il-may-be-the-cause-of-catastrophic-car-accidents\/"},"modified":"2022-06-29T17:10:01","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T22:10:01","slug":"buzzed-drivers-in-il-may-be-the-cause-of-catastrophic-car-accidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/buzzed-drivers-in-il-may-be-the-cause-of-catastrophic-car-accidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Buzzed Drivers in Il May Be the Cause of Catastrophic Car Accidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"item-meta h3\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/category\/legal-articles\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Legal Articles<\/a> | November 26, 2014<\/p>\n<p><em>The Illinois legal limit is 0.08 percent; however, studies show that drivers with a BAC of as low as 0.01 percent can cause devastating car accidents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Motorists who drive with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or above in Illinois are considered intoxicated and can be arrested for a DUI. However, drivers who have a BAC below 0.08 percent can present hazards for other motorists on the road as well. According to Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Illinois experienced a 15 percent increase in their drunk driving fatality rate in 2012. That year, approximately 34 percent of all fatal <a href=\"\/chicago-car-accident-lawyer\/\">car<\/a> and <a href=\"\/auto-accidents\/truck-accidents\/\">truck accidents<\/a> were attributed to drunk drivers. With these high statistics, <a href=\"\/auto-accidents\/drunk-driver-accidents\/\">driving while intoxicated<\/a> has become a major problem for Illinois motorists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/buzzed-drivers-in-il-may-be-the-cause-of-catastrophic-car-accidents\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Buzzed Drivers in Il May Be the Cause of Catastrophic Car Accidents\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal Articles | November 26, 2014 The Illinois legal limit is 0.08 percent; however, studies show that drivers with a BAC of as low as 0.01 percent can cause devastating car accidents. Motorists who drive with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or above in Illinois are considered intoxicated and can be arrested for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-articles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dangers of Buzzed Driving in Chicago, IL | Effects of Buzzed Driving<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Illinois legal limit is 0.08 percent; however, studies show that drivers with a BAC of as low as 0.01 percent can cause devastating car accidents.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.seidmanlaw.net\/blog\/buzzed-drivers-in-il-may-be-the-cause-of-catastrophic-car-accidents\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Dangers of Buzzed Driving in Chicago, IL | Effects of Buzzed Driving\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The Illinois legal limit is 0.08 percent; 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