Drivers Who drinks Liquor The night before the morning drive is risking at risk, a new survey has warned.
It has come to know about more than the fifth (21 percent) of a pole motor driver Keep alcohol drunk after 10 pm when need to drive before 9 o’clock in the next morning.
road safety Charity IAM RoadSmart, which commissioned the survey, warned that drinking alcohol at night before going behind the wheel could lead to a “serious danger” because “disgusting head” means slow response time.
Survey of 1,072 UK motorists also indicated that 38 percent of people who have consumed many alcoholics Beverage Stop drinking alcohol after 9 pm before 9 pm.
Charity drinkware states that alcohol is removed from the body at the rate of one unit per hour, although it varies depending on a person’s weight, liver health and motion of metabolism.
About three large glasses of wine or three pints of high -power beer or three pints of cider are equal to nine units.
A person consuming those drinks up to 10pm may still have alcohol in their body at 7 am or later, IAM Rhodesmart warned.
Nicholas Lius, director of the charity of policy and standards, said: “Drink-driving is a killer, and the drivers in the morning are inadvertently unknown in their vehicle that they can illegally unaware that they can illegally do so if they were drinking alcohol before night, posed a serious threat to the safety of others.
“Even though they are only within the legal limit, the liquor level in their system will affect their response time.
“In addition, alcohol consumption has an effect on the quality of sleep.”
Chief Constable Joe Shiner, The National police chiefCouncil lead for Roads Policing said: “When you are spoiled through drinks or drugs, there is no excuse to go behind the wheel, and it is also included after morning.
“If you want to do this then you are putting your life and life of others at risk.”
The survey also suggested that about a third (31 percent) of drivers had with a friend or relative in the last 12 months, who drank alcohol before going into the vehicle.
Some 72 percent of this group warned him that he should not drive, while 23 percent said that he did not take any action.
Four out of five (81 percent) people voted that the rehabilitation course should be mandatory for anyone guilty of a drink-drive crime.
Currently courses are sometimes introduced in exchange for low driving restrictions.
Driver and vehicle licensing agency data showed that 27,837 British motorists were convicted of beverages several times in 11 years to July 2024.
Some 372 were caught at least four times, including four who were prosecuted on seven occasions.
latest Transport department (DFT) statistics show that in 2022, 300 people were killed in accidents on Britain’s roads, including at least one driver from the legal liquor limit.
It was above 260 last year and was the highest total since 2009 when 380 deaths were recorded.
Different figures suggest that in July there are more drinks drive-related casualties than any other month of the year.
In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, beverages are 80mg wine in 100 ml of blood.
Europe has a range above 50mg/100ml elsewhere.
The Scottish government reduced its limit to that level in 2014.
A DFT spokesperson said: “We take road safety very seriously, and there are already strict punishment for those who are caught drinking and driving, those convicted with rehabilitation courses are introduced and banned from driving for more than a year.
“When we do not have a plan to make these courses compulsory, we are committed to improving road safety, and our think! The campaign will launch our Summer Drinking-Dravive Activity next week, which is on time to match with Operation Spotlight of National Police Heads.”