Driving with a cold "hits drivers like 4 double whiskies".

In all seriousness, I wouldn't drive if I felt physically sick (i.e. likely to vomit) just because I sometimes tend to go dizzy and faint when vomiting and that's bad news at the wheel. But a cold? Do people get them a lot worse than I do or something?
 
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From the Guardian
Now even a heavy cold can take you over the limit

While driving around England during the holidays I was careful to be stone-cold sober. But now I read that I might just as well have drunk four double whiskies before each car journey for all the difference it would have made. I had a heavy cold for much of the time, and research by an insurance company has found that drivers with colds are just as dangerous as those who have been drinking heavily. Another hope for the new year is that there will be some sort of curb on all research likely to cause consternation and distress. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/05/stop-being-outraged-somebody-something-stupid
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Actually - from the other stuff in that article I wonder if he's on OCUK forums?
 
To be honest if I have a cold I always feel better going for a drive. Takes my mind off feeling crap :p
 
Minstadave said:
Sneezing when driving always clenches up the buttocks, especially on a busy M1.
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I only ever seem to need to sneeze while driving as I'm pulling away, meaning I have to balance the clutch control of pulling off with any spasms my body will have as I sneeze. It's quite an art, and I've near perfected it.
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
Daily Fail, nothing to see here, move on (with a cold or not!)
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They just report news, they may like a sensationalist headline (what tabloid doesn't) but I think this is a case of shoot the messenger.

Insurance firm Young Marmalade carried out the research in association with Halfords using a ‘telematics’ box to record drivers’ speed, braking and cornering.
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I think their agenda is raising premiums or not paying out on claims (as usual):
The insurance industry suspects under-the-weather motorists are to blame for thousands of accidents.
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But I have to ask, what does a winter driving expert do and why does Halfords employ one?
 
Conscript said:
So now we can be fined for driving with a sore throat and a runny nose? Great.
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I bet the Police said nothing of the sort. They most likely said that people who are unfit to drive shouldn't and that if they do and it amounts to careless driving, driving without due care and attention etc then they could be prosecuted.
 
I remember once having to drive with proper, sweaty flu (as was abroad with work with a hire car and in the middle of nowhere, needing to get to an airport) and on reflection I was too ill to be at 100% in terms of concentration.
 
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