Alcohol, Drugs & Fatigue

If you feel drowsy while driving, the safest and most effective action is to stop and rest or take a short nap before continuing.. Once you feel drowsy the only genuinely effective response is to stop driving and rest, take a power nap, or share the driving.

Learner or provisional licence holders in NSW must not drive with any alcohol in their system.. All learner and provisional (P1 and P2) licence holders in NSW are subject to a zero BAC limit, meaning they must not drive with any alcohol in their system.

This is because they are subject to a zero blood alcohol concentration limit, which means any amount of alcohol can impair their driving abilities and increase the risk of crashes. A diagram for this topic isn't available yet — the worked example below walks the same reasoning step by step.

• !Many people mistakenly believe that the 0.05 limit applies to learner or provisional licence holders, but this is only true for full licence holders.
• !Many drivers believe a cup of coffee, loud music, or opening a window will ‘wake them up’, but these tricks do not eliminate fatigue and can give a false sense of safety.
• !Tricks like fresh air, loud music or caffeine give only brief, unreliable relief and do not reverse fatigue.

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