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It's okay to have just one": Alcohol always impairs driving
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by slowing down reactions and blurring vision. Even at the legal limit you are 2.5 times more likely to have an accident.
"Drinking the night before is fine": One in five convicted drink-drivers are caught the morning after.
"Eating a large meal helps the body absorb alcohol quicker": Research on this is unclear, Out suggests that food can actually delay the absorption of alcohol, keeping someone above the drink/drive limit several hours longer than would be the case if they avoided that post-closing time dormer kebab "It's okay to sleep off the alcohol in a truck": It is an offence to be in charge of any motor vehicle while unfit through drink or drugs. And being asleep in the cab of a truck would be classed as being "al charge" of that truck.
"A glass of wine is only one unit": Wine varies in alcoholic content from roughly 8-15%. As an example a 250m1 glass of 12% wine contains 3 units, as does a pint of Stella Artois but a single 440m1 can of 9% Tenants Super contains 4 units.