drinkinc DRIVERS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31248, 21 December 1966, Page 23

drinkinc DRIVERS

(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.a.) SYDNEY, December 20.

Uniformed traffic police ■nd plain-clothes officers in Q-cars are this week camping outside hotel car parks in Brisbane in a major preChnstnms offensive against drunk drivers.

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Police Commissioner, F - Mid: “Drivers who imbibe too freely would be well advised to leave their cars in the hotel car parks and take a taxi home." He said police had been given strict instructions to ensure that no-one under the influence r,f liquor drove a car away from a hotel. “Drunk drivers are among the greatest menace on the road and consequently hotels will come in for special attention.”

The police action came in the wake of a major medical report on road accidents in Queensland which revealed that 41 per cent of drivers killed in accidents considered their own fault had a blood alcohol limit of 0.1 per cent or greater.

The report said that 0.05 per cent was considered by many courts as evidence of drunkenness. It said a similar situation was revealed in seriously injured drivers and pedestrians who had survived accidents, and whose blood alcohol levels were estimated.