Youths take lifts from drivers over limit

MORE than one in four young people have taken a lift from someone they knew was over the drink-driving limit in the recent past.

One in eight knowingly got into a car with a driver who was under the influence of illegal drugs and two out of three have accepted a lift from someone severely hungover.

And, in a further damning indictment of the judgement of the nation’s 17 to24-year-olds, more than half say they have driven the morning after a night’s drinking while unsure if the alcohol they had consumed had cleared their system.