Drink Driving Limit to Be Slashed in Road Safety Crackdown
The government aims to reduce drink-drive limits and enforce mandatory vision tests for drivers over 70 to address rising serious injuries and deaths, with estimated prevention of 58 deaths yearly.
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The case for not lowering the drink-driving limit
Labour is reported to be considering lowering the drink driving limit from 35 micrograms of alcohol per 100 millilitres of breath to just 22 micrograms. This would bring England and Wales in line with Scotland. Does justice for potential victims of car crashes demand this? Although drawing the line on permissible risk is an incredibly difficult
ACSO welcomes government road safety proposals | Association of Consumer Support Organisations (ACSO)
The government has used the relative lull in news over the summer to give signs of what might be in its forthcoming road safety review, the first in a decade.While injury numbers are significantly lower than they were a generation ago, with serious road casualties halving from 41,000 in 2000 to 24,000 in 2010, they have since increased by nearly 20 per cent.
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