Calls for South Yorkshire learners to be taught dangers of drink driving
Campaigners want it added to the driving test
There are calls for all new drivers in South Yorkshire to be taught the dangers of having a drink and getting behind the wheel.
Campaigners are calling for a new section to the driving test - to warn people against drink or drug driving.
Despite a fall in youth drinking, the number of drink drivers is at a four year high and stats show a quarter of them are between 16 and 20.
Sheffield mum Karen Codling's husband Eric was killed by a driver three times over the limit - she's backing the calls:
"Unless you've had that knock on the door to tell you your loved one's not coming home, I don't think anybody realises the impact that has on their family for the rest of their lives. We're still living through it. Trying to anyway, doing the best we can. And obviously coming up to Christmas, it's another year my girls' dad's not here. It's really hard.
"If they had some sort of driver awareness, like when you take the speed awareness courses, when they've actually seen a film of the consequences of what happens and speak to the victims to show it's real life, maybe that'll hit home rather than it becoming their real life.
"I think my daughters have probably learned the hardest lesson ever about drink driving. To lose your husband, to lose your dad, through something that can quite easily be stopped, it just doesn't make sense not to introduce it into driving tests."
Driving tests, which have included a theory assessment since 1996, have seen a handful of changes recently like reading a sat nav.
Suzannah Robin is an alcohol and drug safety expert at AlcoDigital - she says not enough emphasis has been put on the dangers of drink and drug driving:
"The issue isn’t how much alcohol you might consume, but if you have any alcohol in your system at all. Even just one drink means you are three times more likely to cause an incident.
"The problem is this information isn’t being highlighted or filtering through quickly enough because drink-drive limits aren’t immediately clear, and blood or breath alcohol stipulations are often quite meaningless to the general public. However, what is clear from research is that driving with any alcohol in your system is simply not safe."