EXPERIMENTAL courses that are designed to educate drink drivers about the effects of alcohol are producing a significant change in motorists鈥� attitudes, according to early results from the Transport Research Laboratory in Berkshire.
Some drivers convicted of drink-driving have been offered the opportunity of going on a rehabilitation course. Eight out of ten drivers who took the courses emerged better educated about the effect of drinking on driving.
Gordon Harland, who is in charge of the research at the TRL, says that some offenders find it difficult to refuse another drink from friends while others believe that drink does not affect them. The course helps to change these attitudes. Drivers begin to 鈥渞ecognise it is not a stroke of bad luck or a malign policeman,鈥� says Harland. 鈥淭hey are taking a great risk with other people鈥檚 lives.鈥�
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