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You drink, you can't drive

Drink driving is an extremely bad move. High concentrations of alcohol paralyse your central nervous system affecting eye-sight, hearing, muscle control and your competence to react to road conditions. Drink drivers are unlikely to take safety precautions and are more accident-prone.

Research shows alcohol is the dominant risk factor of traffic accidents. In 1989, 37% of drivers killed in the United States were intoxicated (FARS, 1991).

Other research showed alcohol-involved crashes constituted about half of all vehicle fatalities. Research also showed that when blood-alcohol concentration reached 0.03 grams per 100 millilitres of blood - a shot of whisky, half glass of sherry, glass of wine or a large glass of beer - the chance of having an accident greatly increased. Do not take your bodily reaction to alcohol light-heartedly. Don't risk your own life, don't drink and drive.

  • Thank you for reading the PSYNET Sensible Drinking Series. We sincerely hope it's enhanced your understanding of the impact of alcohol and heightened your awareness on drinking. In the next issue, we'll talk about another popular issue - Adversity Quotients. The Psychological Services Group (PSG) will continue to publish articles on interesting psychological topics in the PSYNET column.

    If you have any suggestions or areas of interest you'd like us to talk more on, please contact Police Clinical Psychologist Esther Lau at 2866-6206.





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