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Well done Scotland over drink drive limit.
shackfan
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Great move. If it stops 1 selfish idiot having that extra pint that would have increased their reaction time enough to cause an accident then it's a good job done well. England next, please. It's about time we realised that the choice is drink OR drive. Not both.
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There has to be a limit just above zero because most people will have traces of alcohol in their system due to the food they eat or many hours after consuming a small amount of alcohol. Also, doesn't the human body produce a small amount of alcohol by itself?
Personally, I have not needed the limit to stop me drinking and driving. All I needed was to watch some of the graphic ad campaigns and a smidgen of common sense.
There will still be a limit.
Catch the drunks, not those who find that a sensible limit works for all parties. That's the reason the current is low enough.
What hardship? Wtf are you on about?
The increase in banned the next day cases.
Well they are over the limit and therefore not safe to drive. Tough.
What hardship are you on about. What hardship is caused by this, unless you mean people not be allowed to drink and drive which i dont count or see as any hardship. And saying there is a problem with people still being over the limit the next morning and driving i would say there is a problem. The number of ‘morning-after’ motorists caught over the drink-drive limit the day after a night out on the tiles is increasing.
Arrests between 6am and 8am for drink-driving following a heavy night rose by nearly 4 per cent last year, according to police figures.
Many motorists do not realise they are still at risk of being over the limit even after hours of sleeping it off.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2514724/Jump-drink-drivers-caught-limit-morning-after.html#ixzz3H47wAcKj
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Like I said, catch the drunk drivers, not those who've had a little bit but are now deemed to be too dangerous.
Everything changes over time, and if this safes just one life it will be worth it. How can you get banned if you DONT have a drink and then drive. I would not say that its hardship not be able to have a drink, Dont forget when mobile phones came out it was leagal to use them and drive now it is not. And if you go back 47 years health and safety laws and rules in the work place did not excit and cost thousands of lives and millions of injuries.
Less than people going between 50 and 80 mph I would wager.
Drink-drive deaths show 26% rise
Police officer monitoring traffic The number of drink-drive deaths had shown a general trend of declining since 1979
The number of deaths in drink-drive accidents on Britain's roads soared by 26% in 2012, provisional figures show.
A total of 290 people were killed last year, compared with 230 in 2011, the Department for Transport (DfT) said.
It also said 6,680 accidents in 2012 were linked to alcohol consumption.
Those were by people over the legal limit, not under it.
i'm sure when i watched all those traffic cops programs they always banged on about the limit being in the 30's?
BIB - anyone using this argument for anything deserves to be slapped in the face with a rotting fish.
Rules and laws should never be altered of made to prevent something happening with the odds of 60000000 to 1.
Its just ridiculous.
ah so 30's for breath test
and this new limit is being reported as blood test figure.