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Don?t Drink (Coffee) and Drive

By Lawrence Taylor

Ok, you've had two glasses of wine with dinner and it's time to head home. You feel fine, but throw down a couple of cups of coffee to clear your head just to be sure. Then you pay the bill, walk out to your car, get behind the wheel — and one block after pulling out of the parking lot you see flashing red lights in your rear view mirror. A couple of minutes later you find yourself struggling to walk heel-to-toe on a straight line.  Well, you think, I only had a couple of drinks.  A couple of drinks — and coffee…. Field sobriety tests are used by officers as evidence of whether an individual is under the influence of alcohol or not. These commonly involve such excercises as "walk-and-turn", "finger-to-nose" and "one-leg-stand"...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on March 10, 2010 (boomark / email).