Drinking & Driving

[tjcafferkey]

It's important to remember also that you can be well over the limit the next day. It takes about an hour for the body to process a unit of alcohol, so if you had say ten pints, approx 20 units and started drinking at 8 o'clock, it would be 4 o'clock the next day before it's all out of you system.

It would be half four. You should always leave it half an hour after you consume to start counting down your units.

 

[02GF74]

^^^^ that is brilliant idea, drive home in a taxi and you never get breathalysed!!!

 

[Black Sheep]

I had a lot of alcohol the other day and then drove home

it was the only way to get it all home from the shop.

 

[vernon]

I had a lot of alcohol the other day and then drove home

it was the only way to get it all home from the shop.

You could have drunk it all first then you would have to deal with the empties.

 

[Trail Child]

Great radio ad heard yesterday here ... "We're the Ottawa Police Service and we don't get better looking after 2 am ...".

 

[germanicdogman]

this compilation of ads really hits home especially the one @ 1:51

 

[sheddy]

Does anyone know why we get so few public information films on TV now ?

Did we also see them on the BBC ? (I may be wrong here)

 

[MontyVeda]

Does anyone know why we get so few public information films on TV now ?

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Dunno... maybe the Ministry of Public Information Films came under Thatchers Axe, along with milk for the kiddies, jobs for the miners and a free festival at Stonehenge.

Some of them were a bit odd though, for example we had "Don't paint polystyrene ceiling tiles with gloss paint." but we didn't have "Don't ram a fork into your sister's face at tea time." Out of the two options, only one has ever crossed my mind.

edit... from wikipedia:

PIFs were supplied to broadcasters free of charge for them to use whenever they wished. Their usefulness as a cost-free means to fill the gaps in fixed-duration commercial breaks left by unsold advertising airtime led to their being used regularly and extensively in the 60s, 70s and much of the 80s, and consequently, [...] they were typically known as "fillers". They are still being produced, although the vastly reduced need for broadcasters to turn to third-party filler material to deal with unused airtime during breaks or junctions means they are now only seen rarely. (source)

 

[snorri]

Does anyone know why we get so few public information films on TV now ?

Did we also see them on the BBC ? (I may be wrong here)

Shhhh..Don't ask, just be thankful.

 

[MontyVeda]

as I understand it, road fatalities in the UK have been in decline since the early 1940's. This, I guess is more to do with improved vehicle safety and improved roads & signage.

unless of the course the stats i cannot find do show a marked drop in the couple of years following the introduction of the breathalyser and seatbelt regulation.

 

[SomethingLikeThat]

this compilation of ads really hits home especially the one @ 1:51

Great video to put on at parties.

 

[marinyork]

as I understand it, road fatalities in the UK have been in decline since the early 1940's. This, I guess is more to do with improved vehicle safety and improved roads & signage.

unless of the course the stats i cannot find do show a marked drop in the couple of years following the introduction of the breathalyser and seatbelt regulation.

They've been in decline since sometime in the 1960s. In the 1940s accidents reached a very high level and a bonkersly high level for how many vehicles were registered at the time (although a very high number of cyclist deaths back then). One of the reasons they went so big on road safety at the time was the number of deaths went up hugely between around 1950-65.

 

[Brains]

They've been in decline since sometime in the 1960s. In the 1940s accidents reached a very high level and a bonkersly high level for how many vehicles were registered at the time (although a very high number of cyclist deaths back then). One of the reasons they went so big on road safety at the time was the number of deaths went up hugely between around 1950-65.

At lot of this was due to per war cars still on the road, so they introduced the MOT, also that before the mid1930's a driving licence did not requie any test.
Also even I remember the state of the road surfaces in rural areas in the 1960's they were rough!
In Cornwall roads with grass down the middle were common until the 80's