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Driving Danger - UK - From Common Medicines: Study
Millions of drivers could be at risk of accidents this winter due to the symptoms of common colds and the medication taken to relieve them
UK -Transport News Network -25 Oct 2006: -- According to new research, Kate Syred, Marketing and Commercial Director of Privilege Insurance, commented: "Medicines are clearly labelled for a reason, and those drivers who aren't taking the time to check for side effects could be putting themselves and other road users at risk. On the plus side, it seems that the majority of drivers do take heed of warnings once they are aware of them"... With more than half (54 per cent) of British motorists likely to take to the roads while feeling under the weather or on medication, nearly a fifth (18 per cent) admitted their driving had been negatively affected as a result during the past 12 months... One in ten, the equivalent of 3.3 million drivers, lost concentration at the wheel due to an impaired reaction caused by illness or medication... Conversely, eight in ten drivers would amend their behaviour if they discovered a medicine they were about to take might affect their driving, with a third (36 per cent) holding off taking the medicine until after having driven, and a quarter (24 per cent) not driving at all...
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