{"id":7763,"date":"2012-01-07T15:35:54","date_gmt":"2012-01-07T15:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7763"},"modified":"2012-01-07T15:35:54","modified_gmt":"2012-01-07T15:35:54","slug":"a-cold-can-make-you-a-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=7763","title":{"rendered":"A Cold Can Make You A Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span style=\"color: #800000\">Halifax Courier refers to it as \u201cresearch\u201d. I sometimes wonder if these local papers know what that word actually means?<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, drivers with a heavy cold should \u201cthink twice about getting behind the wheel\u201d \u2013 according to this \u201cnew research\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving: The Essential Skills<\/strong> \u2013 effectively the learner driver syllabus &#8211; says:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Fitness to drive<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Don\u2019t drive if you\u2019re feeling tired or unwell. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Even a cold can make it unsafe for you to drive . If you find you\u2019re losing concentration or not feeling well, keep your speed down and give yourself more time to react. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><strong>Drugs<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Medicines &#8211; check any medicines you\u2019re taking to see if it affects your ability to drive. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Even medicines for coughs and hay fever  can make you drowsy. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, perhaps we can assume that by \u201cresearch\u201d they mean that someone read this book?<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cresearch\u201d is by an insurance company (Young Marmalade). The article goes on to regurgitate what is already written plainly in <strong>The Essential Skills<\/strong> as if it has just discovered this all by itself!<\/p>\n<p>The whole point of the article is shot down by the police, who also mentioned the medication people might be taking:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">If there is an accident and if someone is not fit to drive, careless driving might be there, but we would have to have evidence. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The entire point of the \u201cresearch\u201d is summed up by the insurance industry\u2019s \u201csuspicions\u201d that a lot of \u201cprangs\u201d happen while people are \u201cunder the weather\u201d. So, another piece of astounding science, eh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Halifax Courier refers to it as \u201cresearch\u201d. I sometimes wonder if these local papers know what that word actually means? Apparently, drivers with a heavy cold should \u201cthink twice about getting behind the wheel\u201d \u2013 according to this \u201cnew research\u201d. Driving: The Essential Skills \u2013 effectively the learner driver syllabus &#8211; says: Fitness to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}