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University Daily Kansan, January 29, 1985
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Sobriety test to focus on drivers' eyes
By J. STROHMAIER Staff Reporter
Lies and drinking now have something in common. In both, your eyes give you away.
Lawrence and Douglas County law enforcement officials are learning a new field sobriety test that will help officers estimate more accurately the driving controls drivers have had to drink, the instructor for the test said yesterday.
Chet Hays, the instructor from the KU division of continuing education, said the new test was more efficient in predicting how much a driver had consumed because the test, called Battery Capacity, was relied on involuntary eye reactions.
Hayes taught an eight-hour course to area law enforcement officials Friday at the Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St.
Hayes said officers administered the gaze test by asking the person to watch the movements of an object, such as a pencil. If their eyes follow the object smoothly, they pass the test. If the eyes exhibit a jerking or
stuttering movement, called eye stagmus, the officer can reasonably assume the person has been drinking.
Hayes said a study conducted two years ago at the University of Southern California in conjunction with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed that the test could determine a person's blood alcohol content with a high degree of accuracy.
Hayes said the relationship between alcohol intake and eye stagnus had been known since 1947. But the recent study provided enough evidence of the test's accuracy to allow implementation.
UNLISH TESTS NOW being used, such as walking a straight line, touching a finger to the nose or reciting the alphabet, this test gives officers a more accurate estimate of how much both the experienced and the inexperienced drinker has had to drink. Haves said.
He said the gaze, or eye stagnus, test, which is approximately 75 percent accurate, was only one of his most difficult to determine if a driver has had the
legal 0.1 percent blood alcohol limit.
In addition to the eye stagnus test, two other tests will be administered by officers. One test requires the person to walk a straight line for nine steps and then walk another line return nine steps. The other test requires the person to stand on one ler and count slowly to 30.
Hayes said the main function of these three tests was to provide officers with enough information to make an informed and probable cause to arrest the person.
IF THE OFFICER has probable cause for arrest, the suspect will be taken to the police station for a breath-analyzer test to determine his or her exact blood alcohol content, he said.
James Denney, director of the KU Police Department, said some of his staff would attend the next session scheduled for sometime in March.
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Denney said that KU police arrested between 50 and 60 drunken drivers annually, but that he did not think the new testing procedures were likely to average. Last year, 44 people were arrested for drunken driving.
"The stagnum test is not magic. It won't tell you definitely whether this person is drunk, but it is the best test we've got," he said.
Sgt. David Cobb of the Lawrence police said Lawrence and Douglas County law enforcement officials would start using the new tests would still rely on BD testing proceeded to become familiar with the new tests.
"Five to six percent of the driving public have a natural eye stagnus," he said, "and some stagnus can be attributed to head injuries, inner ear infections or such drugs as PCP or barbiturates."
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