One in five drug user drives a car
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Not only the willingness of young adults, despite drug and alcohol use to drive a car is frightening, but also the helplessness of the police. Often the officials recognize the drug drivers do not like from an unpublished study of accident research, the insurer (UDV) is apparent for the more than 400 teenagers and young adults were interviewed. For 65 percent of survey participants are illegal drugs no man’s land. For those over age 18 and even 77 percent of them had already experience with it says “auto motor and sport”. More than half of them consumed alcohol every weekend. And the “pain barrier” seems low, because more than one in five respondents, the intoxicating agent takes to be driving, according to the study with alcohol and drugs in blood car.
One reason for the low threshold provides UDV-CEO Siegfried Brockmann inadequate police checks. Although more sinners would be discovered, but the true figure is still very high. So be at 27 percent of respondents who were stopped by the police under the influence of drugs, drug use remained undiscovered, Brock told ams. Although most knew that they take a risk, is the urge to drive the car home, “greater than the fear of consequences.” Drugs belong to Brock’s opinion of young people for companionship. “This selfishness is clearly visible. The fun factor will be rated higher than the potential danger to himself or others. ” The police even suspected, only to discover an alcohol of 600 runs. “Under the influence of drugs is likely the real figures yet lie about it because the majority is not all police officers in the detection of adequately trained,” said Dieter Müller, Head of Department for Transport Studies at the University of the Saxon police and head of the Institute for Traffic Law and practices in Bautzen, compared to the magazine.
However, there are striking differences depending on the province. In the Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate is the risk of getting caught to high due to the good training of forces. This danger exists in Berlin, Bremen and Saxony, however, hardly, says Müller.
Drug driving is reckless and silly and it is extremly important that stay clear of doing it. Irwin Mitchell solicitors has seen a wide range of accidents stemming from dangerous driving, so understand the risk involved.
