DRUNKEN MOTORISTS MENACE THE STREETS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 104, 23 July 1927, Page 11

DRUNKEN MOTORISTS MENACE THE STREETS

WORSE THAN INEBRIATE ARMED WITH REV OLVER SAYS SCOTTISH JUDGE By Cable.—Press Association. — Cop; ■ -w\: LONDON, Thursday. The harmful effects of intoxicating liquor upon motor drivers was the text of a discussion at to-day’s session of the conference of the British Medical Association at Edinburgh. Dr. Godfrey Arter said a drunken motorist was only one degree less culpable than a drunken enginedriver. Disaster was sure to follow. The delicate nerve-balance which gave poise, judgment and quick decision was the first to become disordered as a result of alcohol. A Cincinnati delegate. Dr. Emil Bogen, described an American plan. A person suspected of drunkenness was made to blow up a football. When his breath was released Into a chemi-

cal mixture it disclosed the extent of his intoxication. In certain known cases a man’s breath had changed the chemical fluid • from a reddish-brown to a bluishI green. j Chief Justice Russell, Scotland, said a drunken motorist was worse than a drunken man with a revolver. The latter would go off in only one direc- ! tion. but there was no knowing what , a drunken motorist would do in a crowded street. He said lie regretted that the law did not allow a drunken motorist to be imprisoned.—A. and N.Z.