Brake: Young drivers at risk of next-morning drink drive crashes - 17/12/2007Disturbing research on the dangerous habits of young drivers has been released by road safety charity Brake.
Around 45 per cent of young motorists polled by the organisation said that they have driven the morning after a night of heavy drinking - which is well before alcohol has been given the chance to leave the bloodstream completely.
This rate compares poorly with the 26 per cent of over-25s who admit to doing the same - and chimes with the generally higher rate of road accidents and accident claims younger drivers suffer.
Jools Townsend, head of education at Brake, said: "It is shocking that nearly half of young drivers will risk their own lives and endanger others by driving the morning after a heavy night's drinking.
She added: "The government must do more to ensure people are not breaking the law out of ignorance - we need high-profile advertising on this issue and an increase in police powers so they can carry out random breath tests."
According to government statistics, 540 people died and almost 2,000 were seriously injured in car accidents involving drink driving.
What's more, according to Brake of the 90,000 drink driving convictions in the UK in 2006, one fifth were breathalysed by police either on their way to or from work.
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