Worried you could be over the limit this weekend? Drinkaware have a alcohol calculator that will tell you how long it will take to process the amount of drink you have. Many things such as your weight, age, gender, metabolism, mood, whether you’ve eaten etc, can further delay the processing time. For example, if a person finished three pints of beer at midnight, they will have consumed six standard drinks, this means they need six hours from midnight when they stopped drinking before their body will have processed the alcohol and they should not get behind the wheel of a car until 6am at the earliest The time starts from when the last drink is finished. Examples of a standard drink are half a pint of beer, 100ml glass of wine, or a standard measure of spirits. The massive increase of 113% in visits to the Drinkaware drink driving webpage this year shows that people want to know the facts and to keep their families and communities safe."Īccording to Drinkaware, it takes at least one hour to process one standard drink. It comes as Drinkaware said bank holiday weekends tend to see spikes in road accidents.ĬEO Sheena Horgan said: “We know that the Irish public have the best of intentions and want to do the right thing. READ MORE: Ireland weather: Met Eireann issue ‘hazardous’ Bank Holiday Monday warning but it's not all bad news The morning after is a particularly dangerous period for drink drivers, and gardai say this is reflected in the number of early-morning checkpoints they will be conducting.
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Officers have been conducting Mandatory Intoxicant Testing checkpoints in several locations, including Louth where over 325 drivers were tested for drugs and alcohol yesterday with six arrests.
Gardai have been out in force this August bank holiday weekend, targeting a number of offences including drink driving.
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