Drinking alcohol and driving is:
- A minor traffic safety problem.
- A serious traffic safety problem. ✓
- Safe if you have only had a few drinks.
- Only dangerous to the driver who drinks.
Answer: B. A serious traffic safety problem.
Drinking alcohol and driving is a serious traffic safety problem.
Why this is the answer
The handbook says alcohol reduces judgment, reaction, vision, and concentration, and even one drink can affect your driving. It states that no one can drink and drive safely and that drinking raises your chance of being in a crash. Because of that danger, Florida treats drinking and driving as a serious problem with tough penalties. That matches the answer that it is a serious traffic safety problem.
Why the other answers are wrong
- A. A minor traffic safety problem. — Calling it a minor traffic safety problem understates the handbook's warning that even one drink affects driving and raises crash risk.
- C. Safe if you have only had a few drinks. — The handbook says no one can drink and drive safely and even one drink can affect your driving, so having a few drinks is not safe.
- D. Only dangerous to the driver who drinks. — The handbook's warning about greater crash chances applies to driving among others, not just to the drinker's own health.
Remember it
If you are driving, the handbook's safe choice is a sober driver and no alcohol.