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Company Vehicle Drivers Warned About Morning After Breath Tests

It’s December and the Police are launching their campaign to reduce drink driving over the Christmas period.

And this year there's more focus than ever on the morning after. With the economy biting hard there will be less "going out" this December and more "socialising at home", which is often the cause for people to lose sight of how much they are drinking.

In E-Training World’s online driver training system you are asked to pour whiskey into a glass and see if you know what a unit of alcohol looks like. It’s totally interactive and you click to pour, see the glass fill up, then click to stop.

Your online tutor then tells you if you got it right or not and you have the chance to see how long that amount of alcohol would take to leave your body based upon the number of drinks you typically have in one evening. (see www.e-drivertraining.com or to view a demo click on http://www.e-drivertraining.com/demo/1welcome.asp).

Based upon their usual consumption, most people are horrified to see that they should not be driving until mid morning the next day and there are a number of reasons for this. Graham Hurdle, managing director of E-Training World explains.

“One of the simplest reasons why people find themselves over the limit the next day is that they do not know what a unit of alcohol looks like in the glass and therefore drink far more than they think.

“They believe they are pouring 1 unit measures when in fact they are pouring a lot more. With spirits, when you drink in a pub the bar person tends to put ice in 1st and this makes the quantity look more in the glass. Take the ice away and its a small amount at the bottom of the tumbler that equals 1 unit, but when drinking at home people fill the glass to the same level, but without the ice!

“You also tend to top up your glass at home, which you do not do in the pub. In other words, you're only half way through your glass of wine when your glass is re-filled and you lose track of how many times this has happened.

“Finally, because you are not paying for each drink you pay less attention generally to how much you're having. The end result is that many drivers who would be horrified by anyone knowingly drinking and driving, end up doing it themselves”.

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