INTOXICATION TESTS
Sir, —In your leading article on “Intoxication Tests,” the last sentence is rather alarming. If the Court assumes the policemen to be right, and they happen to be wrong in one out of 100 cases, the consequences will be serious. Is there such an unfathomable mystery about being drunk that only medical knowledge can solve it? If so, some of this knowledge should be handed over to the police, who now have mainly common sense to guide them. A fair exchange might do no harm. If some standardised tests combining the two were to be applied, the driver would know better what his drink would cost him. Doctors differ, so a motorist over 70 years of age has to undergo a medical test approved by the traffic authorities. I admit z there is a difference between the two cases; but there is a far gteater difference between the menace each one causes. —Yours, etc., January 10, 1947.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25080, 11 January 1947, Page 3
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