Drinkdriving.org
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The Government are reviewing the legal drink driving limit, laws and legal framework concerning drink and drug driving. A special report commissioned by The Department of Transport recommends several changes which include:
If all recommendations were implemented Great Britain would have the toughest penalty regime of any country within the EU that has a 50mg limit.
Do you support these changes? Do you think the drink driving laws are already too severe? Perhaps you think they are too lenient? What would you suggest?
- Lowering the legal drink driving limit from 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood to 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood
- Introducing portable/handheld evidential breathalysers that can be used at the road side no later than the end of 2011
- Giving police the power to legally require anyone driving a vehicle on the roads at any time and without reason to comply with a preliminary breath test
- The possibility of banning repeat drink drive offenders from driving for life
- Removing the 'statutory option' which allows drivers with low BAC (blood alcohol content) levels to opt to provide a blood or urine sample instead of a breath sample
- Closing a loophole that allows high risk offenders to drive, once their driving ban has expired and before they have been classed as fit to drive by a DVLA approved doctor
If all recommendations were implemented Great Britain would have the toughest penalty regime of any country within the EU that has a 50mg limit.
Do you support these changes? Do you think the drink driving laws are already too severe? Perhaps you think they are too lenient? What would you suggest?