Road Safety Blog

Critical weekend incidents

There is a worrying tendency among young people and teens who want to
spend a different night together with their friends in the weekends: the statistics tell us about
terrible incidents and car accidents that occur soon after that these young people
leave the disco to go back home.

The social background is the one of the disco and night clubs: people who
dance all the night, very often at fast rhythm, people who take drugs and drink
alcoholic beverages to keep awake and to be able to dance more and more.  

Effects of drugs and alcohol

The range of ages involved in the weekend incidents goes from 1 up to 44
years. The main causes for the injuries and deaths come from a worrying
combination of risky behavior while driving a car and an environment where
drugs and alcohol are very easily involved.

It’s also true that teens are more likely to risk and to do hazardous
behaviors, so the mix with drugs and alcohol can be for them really deathful.

The main effects of drugs and alcohol are a lack of perceptiveness of
what happens all around. People who take drugs can’t be aware of what goes
around and therefore their reaction times are slower than in normal conditions.

Researches

There is a
new field of researches focusing on the injuries as a consequence of drugs and alcohol.
The tests that policemen normally take on people on the road are mainly a
result of these researches. Samples of urine, blood, saliva, sweat and hair are
all very helpful to understand if the person has taken some illegal substances.
The problem as to car accidents is when people get blocked into the vehicles. Not
always the firemen can get them free from the semi destroyed car and very often
they have to call http://www.locksmiths-search.com
to get the lock broken and take out the injured person.


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