DRINK AND MOTORISTS.

White Ribbon, Volume 35, Issue 418, 18 May 1930, Page 8

DRINK AND MOTORISTS.

The following li from the columna Of t be "South London 1': • If i>r. Baiter, M P. for Bcrmondse) West, who i ♦ • <• • -1111 \ said in the House thai speed has gone to the head of motor drlTeri "like cham] told a 1.- iiu .it Qutvn h Road Westeyao Church, Peekham, on rriday. thai "nacre road accidents an dtte to drink than to anything «■ 11 • Hi-. Baiter ii one of the 7" M P*i on the ■ub-committee ol the Road TroJk Bill. PRISON POH DRINKERS People did not s»-. in to realise i lie rltj Of the position, he said There irere more people killed in • e( accidenti la 1929 than tii**«i from notifiable dl i figure iter than the death-roll of the British Army daring the war. "Every bod) ggreen that ■ man In charge of ■ lethal weapon like the motorcar, who is under the Influx of drink, ought to be clapped into gaol without the option of i line," he -aid. He i ontended that ■ large number ol accidents was iliif to the consumj) ti<ui b) the driven of quite moderate quantities of drink just OSC Of tWO glsisss of beer. The truth of that had not >-'t dawned upon the autho rlth •in: ICTIONARY Till He traced thw that took place la an Individual who had conaumed alcohol. in even pemoi ■ certain time elapeed from the receiving an ordei to the time it was put into execution) owin.u to the various processes it had o through and the rarlouf ' changes" it had to be connected with in the brain. THRU FBET OP DANGER. in the k\ person the time that so elapsed, called reactionary time, wi oond whoa in noriiial and good health. Fat:. and worrj and illness made the re actionary tine longer, IS also did drugi aad alcohol And a car going at (0 miles per hour COUld travel in l-L'ath Of I ond just over thro* "Supposing you had taken one glass of alcohol which has ■lOWtd your reactionary time. What then?" be asked, "it dependi upon how

are susceptible to alcohol. It tlonarj tag dewed to one third ot i at cond, it win mean that the cai will have traTelled 15 before anything can be dot CONFIDENCE BEFORE THE CRASH. hi nil opinion, the driver who had bad I -lass or two oi beer was far more dangerous than the driver who was ObvtOUSlj drunk. !»• • the former would soon be ob but the latter would career about the eta full of confidence, until In■tantaneoui action was demanded, and then lie would fail because his tionar) time had tx en ilowed down.