Report calls for lower bound drink drive

An independent review has recommended that Minister dramatically lower the drink-drive limit.

The report by legal scholar Sir Peter North, calls the border slashed from the current 80 milligrams (mg) of alcohol in 100 millilitres (ml) by blood, a level could find the average man across the border to less than a pint of beer 50 mg.Solch you see.

According to the report - from its estimates on new research from the National Institute of health and clinical excellence (NICE) - could the hundreds of lives every year by the introduction of reduced limit stored exposure.you first year alone, it claims, could deaths 7% cut.

Meanwhile recommends the report of drunkenness also driving keep in place of the compulsory 12 month ban for those convicted.

Given by the previous Labour Government, review of the first major review is the limit since 1976.Es drink drive set the limit at 50 mg / 100 ml - a level that is common in many European countries following calls by the Scottish Government earlier this year for forces of their own country.

Sir Peter said that a driver with a blood alcohol level is six times more likely to die in a street as a not drink driver 50 mg versus the current 80 mg.

"I think not only that it is correctly to reduce but that the public is ready for a lower limit," he added.

"It's time to give you what you want."

"Surveys tell us that driver and witnesses told the public in favour of the lengthy prohibitions for drink me, that the current prohibition of main deterrence of drunk driving is."

Sir Peter treated the issue of drug drive, while illegal if it renders a driver 'unfit' currently no specific legal limits hat.Er recommended that a new offence "should focus on the establishment of levels of drugs in the blood that the significant Beeinträchtigung-and therefore risk for the public safety - reasonably can be expected as is the case now for drunk driving."

Safety charity brake that crime called for creation of a specific drugs at the wheel, "alarmingly low" violations which claims it pointing derived Street the lack of a "simple statistical fact" as the drink-drive limit in February.

As the response to the report, Transport Minister Philip Hammond said that the Government "consider" must the problems raised by it.

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