Research analysis workshops on alcohol and driving 2009

Nearly a thousand young people across Spain have tested the effects of alcohol on their driving ability. A pioneering action, led by Previene, signatories of the European Road Safety Charter, enabled through simulation systems, drivers had the experienced of the effects a rate of 0.5 g / l blood. And the closed circuit experience proved clumsy and slow driving.

Understanding the effects of driving under the influence of alcohol without having tasted a single drop has been carried out during 2009 by Previene in several parts of Spain.

Nearly a thousand people have experienced the feeling of driving under the influence of alcohol in a circuit, by testing decreased reflexes, distorted perception or miscalculation of distance that produces the effects caused drink.

This is made possible due to goggles that simulate an alcohol level between 0.4 and 0.6 grams (the current limit is 0.5).

Next to the circuit, in a tent, attendees have video manuals that clarify how alcohol affects us in our psychomotor skills. After watching, attendees have found what they have learnt with each test. Through the special glasses ocular-motor coordination is altered so that exercises as simple as kicking a ball, place a pencil in a glass or walk straight became highly complicated. In the case of the vehicle, or a circuit can be a great effort because the driver loses distance calculation. Any of those who rode in cars found that dodging cones became virtually impossible.
The consequences of drinking and driving are reflected in the number of serious accidents they cause. Of the 3,100 who died in traffic accidents in 2008 in Spain 31% showed a level of alcohol above the permitted level.