A pint of beer or a glass of wine "could put you on top" of impaired driving

Drinking a pint of beer or a glbad of wine could push you beyond the limit when driving while intoxicated, announced today the Medical Bureau of Road Safety. A call for security launched at Christmas and New Year is launched.

Professor Denis Cusack, director of the office, said that he wanted people to have fun but know that there are "very serious dangers" related to driving while intoxicated .

"If you have drunk until two or three in the morning, the risk is high, especially if you are a novice driver or novice driver where the limit is 20 (20 ml of alcohol per 100 ml of blood) , not only. to be caught but also to be the victim of an accident and to cause injury or to kill someone, "he told RTÉ. Morning Ireland.

"A pint of beer or a glbad of wine could get you over the limit, especially for novice or professional drivers where the limit is 20/100."

Professor Cusack explained that the Medical Bureau of Road Safety is the national laboratory that badyzes blood, urine and alcohol samples in alcohol and drugs, and provides the material that people see at garages and at Garda stations.

"We make sure every device is checked again and again; we are ready to stick to them and their results. "

He warned that it is very difficult for people to estimate the amount of alcohol that they have in their bodies. "The human body is a fantastic machine. It must work in a certain way. So when we take a drink, we have to manipulate it in the body and then get rid of it.

"One of the difficulties is that you almost have to be an alcohol expert because beer, wine, spirits and alcohol – all have different alcohol concentrations," he said.

"How often do you drink, how fast, if you mix beer and spirits, if you ate, your weight, your obesity, your fat cells, and also if you took food with, how much you had the habit of taking alcohol – all of it goes together.

"The advice is that the key is not to drink and drive. It's very, very difficult to estimate what's in your body. "

According to Professor Cusack, consumers who purchase over-the-counter remedies "the next morning" believe that they will help dispel the effects of alcohol, but added that this was not the case.

"Our body can only handle and eliminate alcohol, we get rid of about half a pint or a glbad of wine every hour. So if you take two liters, it will take you four hours to remove it from your system.

"It takes an hour to get most drinks from your system. However, people rarely keep an eye on how much alcohol they have consumed. When you continue to add every 15 minutes, half an hour, it is impossible to calculate, "said Professor Cusack.

"Bottom line is, do not drink and drive."