Alcohol And Drugs

Alcohol and drugs can affect your ability to drive safely. Understand the legal limits, effects on judgment, and safety tips for drivers.

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1. If you take medicine and then drink alcohol:

A. It can have a particularly bad effect on your driving ability.

B. The alcohol will have less effect than if taken alone.

C. Your ability to react to emergencies will improve.

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2. If you are taking several medications and you want to drive, you should:

A. Ask your passengers to let you know if you are not driving as well as you should.

B. Ask your doctor if the combination of drugs will make it dangerous to drive.

C. Drive carefully around your local streets to see if you are affected.

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3. After drinking alcohol you could:

A. Be able to pay close attention to details in the traffic.

B. Be able to drive the same as you normally can.

C. Misjudge speed (your own and others).

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4. If you hold a learner or provisional licence class what is the Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC) limit?

A. Zero.

B. 0.02.

C. 0.05.

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5. Before taking any drugs and then driving it is most important to:

A. Have some food in your stomach.

B. Plan to have some other person with you.

C. Know what the effects of the drug are.

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6. If you are taking any sort of medicine, you should:

A. Only drive a motor car not a heavy vehicle.

B. Find out from your doctor or chemist whether the medicine or drug will affect your driving and act accordingly.

C. Only drive a motor car not a heavy vehicle.

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7. If you are going out and going to drink alcohol, the best way to avoid having to drink and drive is to:

A. Organise before hand a way of getting home where you are not the driver.

B. Wait for one hour after your last drink before you drive home.

C. After you have had a few drinks, start to think about how you will get home.

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8. If you are driving a bus, taxi, hire-car, heavy motor vehicle (over 13.9 tonnes Gross Vehicle Mass), or a vehicle with a dangerous load, it is an offence when the level of alcohol in your blood reaches:

A. 0.05.

B. 0.02.

C. 0.08.

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9. If you are affected by a legal drug, such as a medicine (e.g. cold or allergy tablets)

A. You may drive only in daylight hours.

B. You must have a passenger to help you drive.

C. You must not drive.

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10. If you have used illegal drugs you:

A. Must not drive.

B. May drive only in light traffic.

C. Should drink coffee before driving.

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11. When drivers have been drinking, the crashes they are involved in are generally:

A. About the same.

B. Less serious.

C. More serious.

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12. Having 1 or 2 alcoholic drinks before driving:

A. Has no effect on your driving ability.

B. Improves your driving ability.

C. Will affect your reactions and judgement.

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13. To reduce the effect of alcohol before driving or riding you should:

A. Wait. The time depends on how much you have drunk.

B. Drink black coffee.

C. Have a glass of water.

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14. You want to drive your car but you have a very bad headache. A friend gives you some of their headache tablets to kill the pain. What should you do before you take these tablets?

A. Read the label and confirm they are not prescription drugs and there are no special warnings on the label.

B. Ask your friend if the tablets have affected them.

C. Drink a large glass of milk because this reduces the adverse effects of medicines and drugs.

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15. Is it an offence to refuse to take a POLICE breath test?

A. No, if you are a learner driver.

B. No, if you say you haven't been drinking alcohol.

C. Yes, always.

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16. On Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights, how many serious crashes involve alcohol?

A. About 50%.

B. About 30%.

C. About 10%.

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17. Alcohol is a depressant. This means:

A. It makes you calm down and think more clearly.

B. It speeds your brain up so you can work better.

C. It slows down how quickly your brain works.

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18. Before driving a motor vehicle or riding a motor cycle it is safest:

A. Drink 1 middy (285 ml) of light (low alcohol) beer.

B. Not to drink any alcohol.

C. Drink 1 nip of spirits (30 ml or 1 oz).

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19. What is the safest way to stay under the legal alcohol limit?

A. Exercising and drinking black coffee.

B. Buying a breathalyser (alcohol measuring instrument).

C. Not drinking any alcohol.

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20. Even if you feel unaffected after drinking alcohol, you should:

A. Be aware that your abilities are decreased.

B. Drive, but avoid using freeways

C. Spend more time than usual looking in the mirrors.

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