Upon completion of this lesson, you should have an understanding of what actual physical control is. Drunk drivers kill thousands of people each year in the United States. In response to this carnage, states have made their laws relating to alcohol much more stringent. States have raised the legal age to consume alcohol to 21. States have instituted zero tolerance laws for drivers under the age of 21.
Some states take actual physical control to great extremes.
There are numerous possible variations that can effect whether a person is in actual physical control. I'm sure you can think of many others. States have also grown to take DWI homicides very seriously. Consider the result in Hamilton . With regard to social host liability, it is important to keep in mind that we are dealing with a private party and not a bar.