CDL · Alcohol and drugs
What is true about using drugs and driving?
Correct answer: Drug use can lead to a crash, an arrest, or both.
Answer options
- ADrivers may take any prescription medicine while driving.
- BDrug use can lead to a crash, an arrest, or both. Correct
- COver-the-counter medicines cannot affect your driving.
Why
Drugs, including some legal prescription and over-the-counter medicines, can slow reactions and cloud judgment, which leads to crashes, and driving while impaired by them can get you arrested. A prescription alone does not mean a drug is safe to use behind the wheel.
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Topic: Alcohol and drugs License: CDL
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