Driving after a few drinks ... men versus women

Is there really that much of a difference between women and men’s ability to drive after alcohol? Louise Roseingrave, and a male volunteer, put their skills to the test — after a few beers

BEHIND the wheel after three bottles of beer, at 6.30pm, I am careening around a corner, when I hear a bang. I hit the brakes. It takes 1.4 seconds to stop.

Conducting a ‘driving under the influence’ experiment at Bantry Driving Academy in West Cork, I’d made a catastrophic mess of reversing.