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UK: L-drivers 'should be tested on drugs'

The Western Mail, Wales

Saturday 02 Aug 2003

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DRIVING theory tests should include questions on the dangerous influence of
recreational drugs, the BSM said yesterday.

The driving school has called for action to stem what it fears is a growth
in numbers of drivers under the influence of illicit drugs.

Motorists aged between 17 and 34 were four times more likely than
35-to-54-year-olds to have driven under the influence of cannabis or
marijuana in the past year, according to an RAC report this year.

BSM managing director Paul Atkinson said, "We're missing a golden
opportunity to use the theory test to alert new drivers to the very real
dangers of drug-driving.

"All driver training agencies should be constantly hammering home the point
that cannabis can reduce your reaction time and impair your co-ordination,
while cocaine and Ecstasy can make you over-confident and more liable to
take risks behind the wheel."

The BSM, formerly the British School of Motoring, said the present theory
tests only contain questions relating to prescription drugs.

A spokeswoman for the Driving Standards Agency, which sets the tests, said
there were questions relating to drugs in the theory tests, though not
specifically recreational drugs. "We constantly update the theory test
questions and we may look into this in the future."

 

 

 

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