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Show HBD's Headed For Trouble When Driving Automobiles If you're an HBD, you're head- , ed for trouble when you drive a car. I Those three letters can increase the seriousness of any traffic charge against you. make it practically prac-tically certain you'll be convicted and increase the penalty. HBD, written on the police blotter, stands for "had been drinking." And if they're written alongside a traffic charge against you, they mean trouble. It isn't necessary to be drunk while driving. "Had been drinking" is enough even if you've had only those proverbial "couple of beers." If you nu.st have alcohol while driving, put it into the car's cooling cool-ing system, where it's needed for winter protection. The new car dealer who handles your make of car or the mechanic who regularly regular-ly sendees your car can recommend recom-mend the correct anti-freeze. Only about 1,500 people died of poisons accidentally last year in the United States. Unless, that is, you count alcohol in a driver as a poison which it is, judging by results. Last year about 22 per cent of all drivers or pedestrians involved in fatal accidents were those who "had been drinking." For when a driver or passenger is tak"n to the hospital after an accident, the hospital too often adds three more letters to the I HDD on the police blotter. Those I three letters are DOA dead on arrival. |
