DRINK AND DRIVERS

Evening Star, Issue 19616, 23 July 1927, Page 4

DRINK AND DRIVERS

DANGEROUS MOTORISTS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION’S STRiO TUBES. , ' : : Fircm Association—By Telegraph— Copyright. LONDON. July 31. Tho Rarmfuliiess of driiik upon motor drivers was the text 1 of a British Medical Association session at. , Edinburgh. Dr Grodfrcyartcr said that a drunken motorist was only a degree loss culpable than a drunken engine driver. Disaster was sure to follow. The delicate nerve balance, giving poise, judgment, and quickness'of decision, was the first thing to become disordered as a result of alcohol.

A Cincinatti delegate, Dr Emir Bogen, described the American plan, where the suspect blows up a football. The breath, when released into a chemical mixture, disclosed the extent of intoxication. In knoiTn cases the breath had changed the fluid from a reddish brown to a bluish green. Mr Justice Russell said that a drunken motorist was worse than a drunken man with a revolver. - The latter would go off in only one direction, but there was no knowing what a drunken motorist would do in a crowded street. Ho regretted that the law did not allow imprisonment.