The number of drivers caught drink-driving the morning after a drinking session is increasing, according to new figures.
Arrests made between 6am and 8am for drink-driving have risen by nearly 4 per cent according to new police figures and a staggering 1.2 million drivers have driven 'the morning after' while still being over the drink-drive limit.
Yet many motorists are unaware that they are at risk of being over the legal limit even after hours of sleep, with figures from insurance company LV showing that 46 per cent of motorists are unaware how long it takes for alcohol to leave their system.
Drivers who drink 19 units of alcohol (roughly equivalent to seven pints of lager or six 250ml glasses of wine) have to wait around 15 hours for all of the alcohol they have consumed to leave their body.
Official guidelines claim that it takes around an hour for the body to break down one unit of alcohol; however, variables such as the person's age, weight, gender and metabolism can have a huge effect on this.
The current drink-drive limit is 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood, 35mg per 100ml of breath or 107mg per 100ml of urine, which equates to approximately four units for the average man and two to three units for the average woman.
With Christmas fast approaching and as many as 10 per cent of all drink-drive arrests occurring around the festive period, now's the time to be vigilant about morning-after drink-driving. If you need to drive the following day, make sure your drinking is well within the accepted limits or, even better, don't drink at all.
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