Drink drivers down on last year over Christmas

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.”