tuesday, august 25, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 3
Drivers
Continued from Page 1
Participants included Jim
Joyce, Patti Kirk, Linda UI
rich, Jeff Elliott and Frank
Partsch. Each was assigned a
"buddy" to ride with and
record participants' test re
sults. Joyce, a reporter for The
Lincoln Star , started the af
ternoon with a reaction
time of .45 seconds on the
reaction meter and a course
running time of five minutes
and 40 seconds with no
complications.
Thirty-five minutes and
two Vh ounce 80 proof
drinks later, Joyce's time on
on the reaction meter had
improved to .41 seconds
and his course running time
had decreased to five min
utes and 32 seconds differ
ences in driving perfor
mance. Another hour and ten
minutes later, after two
more drinks, Joyce's blood
alcohol content had reached
.08 of 1 percent, his reac
tion meter time had de
creased to .52 seconds and
he ran the course in four
minutes and 29 seconds.
After six drinks Joyce's
blood alcohol content had
reached .115 of 1 percent,
over the point considered
legal intoxication, his course
speed had quickened to four
minutes and 14 seconds and
the only driving perfor
mance problem was his fail
ure to signal for two turns.
"Jim seemed to have prob
lems remembering the
course. Had he had to run
the course faster I don't
think he would have made
it," said Mike Goff, Joyce's
"buddy", after riding the
last test with Joyce.
According to Goff, the
maximum speed which the
course could be run at was
aroung 20 m.pJi. so the test
was not a good indication of
the driver's ability had they
been in actual city driving
circumstances.
Patti Kirk, of the Depart
ment of Motor Vehicles, ran
what she considered "a
tough course" in three min
utes and 40 seconds and re
ceived a reaction meter time
of .45 seconds when sober.
After two drinks, her blood
alcohol content reached
.075, her reaction meter
time had lapsed to .40, and
she ran the course in three
minutes and 40 seconds
knocking over one pylon.
'After her blood alcohol
content reached .116, her
reaction meter time in
creased to 31 and her time
through the course in
creased to four minutes and
20 seconds. She also
knocked over the imaginary-
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garage wall, five pylons, and
ran a stop sign.
Before drinking. Linda
Ulrich, a reporter with The
Lincoln Journal, had a re
action meter time of .57
seconds and a course time
of three minutes and 10 se
conds during which time she
hit the garage and improper
ly parallel parked.
After four drinks, Ul
rich's blood content had
reached .115 of 1 percent,
reaction meter time had de
creased to .53 seconds, and
she ran the course in five
minutes and 55 seconds and
hit the curb while parallel
parking but missed the
garage wall.
"I gained more self-confidence
as I learned the
course." Frank Partsch, an
Omaha World-Herald re
porter, reached a .101 of 1
percent blood alcohol con
tent after six drinks. His re
action time quickened on
the reaction meter from .46
seconds when sober, to .42
seconds when legally intox
icated. His original "dry" run
took four minutes and 15
seconds and he only knock
ed over 3 pylons. On his last
test drive he increased his
speed to three minutes and
25 seconds on the course on
his last run he knocked over
a pylon while backing.
"I hit the cat as I was
pulling into the garage,"
Partsch said after hitting a
pylon.
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Photo by Kent Morgan Olsen
Patti Kirk of the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles takes a breath test before
driving to determine how much alcohol is in her blood during a drinking driving
demonstration at Lincoln East High School. After two scotches and a lite beer, the
percentage of alcohol in her blood was .076.
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