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The number of
drink drivers or drivers refusing to take the breath test has fallen
over the festive season compared to last year despite more police
checks - 22nd January 2008
The number of
drink drivers or drivers refusing to take a breath test over the festive
period has fallen.
The total fell
20 percent to 7,774 from 9,658 the previous year, despite 155 thousand
drivers being tested up 6.4 percent on last year.
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This shows that tougher enforcement by the police appears
to work in reducing drink driving, and so reducing road accidents and needless
pedestrian and vehicle crash injuries and fatalities, and also reducing
the number of innocent drivers needing to make unnecessary
car
accident claims against their insurance.
Head of Road Safety for
the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), said:
“Although this still means around 250 people a day were caught drinking and
driving during December, the police are to be congratulated on the major
progress made on the previous year. “ Adding “We want the current
drink-drive limit reduced from 80mg to 50mg, which would save around 65
lives and 230 serious injuries on Britain’s roads each year.
Between 50mg and 80mg you are two to two-and-a-half times
more likely to be
involved in an accident and six times more likely to be in a fatal crash
than with no alcohol in your system." “We cannot be complacent because 540
people were killed in road accidents involving illegal alcohol levels in
2006, while in 1999 we had managed to reduce that number to 460.” |
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