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Alcosense takes guesswork out
of residual alcohol in your system
MSA GB MEMBERS’ OFFER
There were 260 deaths on Britain’s roads in
2021 where a motorist was over the drinkdrive
limit – an alarming increase of 18 per
cent over the previous year and the highest
since 2009. Drunk drivers accounted for 17
per cent of all road deaths.
But what these figures don’t tell you of
course, says Hunter Abbott, MD of personal
breathalyser firm AlcoSense, “is how many
more casualties were caused by ‘lethal but
legal’ drivers – above the point of intoxication
where effects on cognitive function occur,
but below the official drink drive limit.”
“It’s far easier than you think to be under
the influence the morning after a few drinks
the night before. This is where a personal
breathalyser comes into its own. It takes the
guesswork out of whether there’s residual
alcohol in your system,” he adds.
To help our members protect themselves
and their pupils, MSA GB has teamed up with
AlcoSense, the award-winning range of
personal breathalysers, to offer an exclusive
discount to all MSA GB members.
A personal breathalyser takes the
guesswork out of whether there’s residual
alcohol in your system (or that of your
learner driver pupil) the morning after the
night before.
The discount gives 10% off any AlcoSense
product (excluding single-use disposables)
– from the entry-level Lite 2 (£44.99) to the
top-of-the-range Ultra (£249.00).
To find out how you can take advantage of
this exclusive discount, head over to the MSA
GB member area at www.msagb.com to find
out more.
Did you know...
...that one of the reasons why drinkdriving
deaths are so high in the UK could
be because too many people don’t think
they will ever be breathalysed, so take a
chance and drink and drive?
Stats show that you are 20 times less
likely to be breathalysed in the UK than in
our nearest European neighbours. In
France, the police breath-tested 109
drivers per 1,000 drivers, while in Spain
it’s 96. In Austria it is even more
stringent, with 155 tests per 1,000
population, and in Portugal, it’s 160.
But these figures pale into insignificance
compared to Estonia, where the figure is
576 per 1,000 – meaning over half the
population tested every year.
In the UK it is a paltry FIVE drivers per
1,000.
No wonder, then, that so many drivers
think they can take a risk and get away
with drink-driving.
Are random breath tests needed?
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