Drinking and driving
Sir: 1 have no car, but if I had one and wanted to drink, I would leave it at home and use a hire ser- vice.
Mr Vinson (Letters, 17 November) is using statis- tics as a substitute for thought. A moral question is at issue. Should a person of diminished respon- sibility be allowed to take charge of such a dan- gerous machine as a motor car? No epileptic ought to drive, irrespective of the comparative statistics of deaths caused by epileptics and cats and dogs. That the responsibility of the driver is diminished by drink. the risk being the greater for his fatuous self confidence, has been established with a degree of certainty sufficient to give the potential corpse the benefit of the.doubt.
I find it infinitely shocking that a man writing from a vicarage should have the mentality which
speaks of only 200 deaths. And I would ask Mr Vinson if he would put a child on a train or plane whose driver or pilot had come straight out of a public house.
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