“TIPSY” MOTOR DRIVERS.
DEFINITION OF DRUNKENNESS. CIRCUMSTANCES'ALTER CASES. LONDON, Feb. 19. “If I were called to the station to see whether a man was drunk, I would ask him to read t.he British Medical Association Committee’s definition of drunkenness,” said a prominent divisional surgeon. He added: “If he could read it, he certainly would not be drunk. If I were asked for a comprehensive definition of drunkenness, 1 would say that it is when a man makes himself a general nuisance. The motorist is chiefly concerned in this business, because the penalties in England are invariably three, months in gaol and the license- suspended for . a year. It seems practically -impossible to generalise. A man once drove me over a most difficult road in war time with perfect skill. The following morning he knew so little of, what had happened that he went to the garage in his pyjamas to see if the ear was there.”
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Grey River Argus, 21 February 1927, Page 5
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