are impaired drivers attracted to bright lights while driving?

Question

if a driver is driving impaired and they see bright lights, would they swerve toward the lights

Answer 1

yes. most police depts saw a high increase of patrol cars being struck when they went to strobe lightbars. they are like deer to head lights.

Answer 2

This is why highway cops will tell you that the worst and most dangerous place in the world to park is on the shoulder of a highway-you should pull off onto the grass because of this very reason. In fact, not just impaired drivers but all drivers tend to 'follow the lights' this is why so many police officers are killed by another vehicle while beside a car on the shoulder of a highway. This is why The law requires drivers who see, ahead of them, the flashing lights of emergency vehicles that are pulled over onto the side of the road to give those emergency workers plenty of room, by moving over at least one lane. If the drivers can't move over, they must slow down, below the speed limit.

Answer 3

Inebriated drivers tend to drive toward flashing blue lights and away from flashing red lights......if you notice on most police cruisers the configuration of the lights are "red on the drivers side and blue on the passenger side"....studies have shown for some reason this to be true.....I don't know why but it is.

Answer 4

A difficult question. The only way to know is to drive impaired-drunk- and find out for yourself.

Answer 5

Having retired from law-enforment, I do tend to believe that drunks are attracted to bright and flashing lights. I, almost have been run over at traffic stops by drunks.

Answer 6

yes it is a proven fact that they are drawn to bright and or flashing lights. most police that are on a trafic stop and get hit by a car the driver was inpaired and was drawn to the the lights on the police car

Answer 7

Cops will tell you that sometimes drunks fixate on flashing lights on the side of the road, like emergency flashers. Then they ram them. But I've only heard that, I have no proof other than what the cops said.

Answer 8

best to ask an impaired driver

Answer 9

LOLOLOLOL..... My guess would be NO! If that were to happen I would think it would be a much worse condition they have than just poor eyesight!!!! LOL

Under the influence of something???? Yes quite possible! But even in that senerio, again, their REAL problem wouldn't be poor vision!!! ;)

Answer 10

It's possible for anyone focused on an object to tend to navigate towards it.