Go, Sober And Safe

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1975

Creator: Highway Safety Films Inc

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: This educational film explores the dangers of drinking and driving by illustrating how alcohol acts as a central nervous system depressant that impairs the vital judgment, alertness, and motor skills required to operate a vehicle safely. Through a series of controlled experiments conducted with the Ohio State Highway Patrol, the film demonstrates that even at blood alcohol concentrations below common legal limits, drivers experience significant degradation in their ability to perform routine maneuvers, such as turning and steering through obstacles. The narrative emphasizes that the liver processes alcohol at a slow, constant rate, debunking myths about quick sobering methods like coffee or exercise, and concludes with a warning that the risk of a fatal accident increases drastically with even moderate alcohol consumption.

Keywords: Drinking and driving, traffic safety, blood alcohol concentration, impaired driving, alcohol consumption, road safety, highway patrol, driver education, alcohol impairment, breathalyzer, traffic accidents.

Complete Record: More than 50% of all traffic deaths in the USA are caused by drinking drivers. How people are actually affected by alcohol depends very much on body weight, amount of food in the stomach and length of time over which the alcohol was consumed. Diagramatically the film explains how alcohol works and shows a test worked out to show how alcohol affects driving ability.

Online Copy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0sUj34ifvk

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