As data from both road accidents and police checks on motorists show, the excess consumption of alcohol among drivers remains a problem in Crete, and in the nation as a whole. A number of recent incidents reported both locally and elsewhere tell of inebriated drivers losing control of their vehicles and colliding with parked cars – usually and fortunately causing no more than material damage. A brief Google search on such incidents in Greece produced no less than six since the beginning of the year: three in Crete and three on the mainland.