drink driving

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drink driving

in road traffic law, a convenient term often used to describe driving or attempting to drive while unfit through drink; being in charge of a vehicle while so unfit; driving while the proportion of alcohol in breath, blood or urine is over the prescribed limit. It attracts a compulsory period of disqualification of at least one year and a second offence within ten years will result in a ban from driving lasting for at least three years.

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YOU would think that with much TV advertising showing the horrors and dire results of drink driving that prosecution figures would be going down.

Shock new figures over drink-driving

Brake says there is also strong public support for lowering the limit with the British Social Attitude Survey recently finding that three quarters of the public (77%) support lowering the drink driving limit.

'CUT DRINK DRIVE LIMIT BY A THIRD' Safety groups pile pressure on Government

In just six days the Operation Dragoon team have arrested and charged the eight with drink driving offences and summonsed another two for driving under the influence of drugs.

8 arrests by B-Test officers

A FOURTEEN-year-old child has been caught drink driving in the West Midlands.

Drink driver aged just 14; FIGURE HORRIFIES CAMPAIGMP AIGMP NERS

Northumbria Police force is currently running a month-long crackdown on drink driving and all drivers involved in crashes during December will be breath tested, as well as those caught speeding or suspected of drink driving.

New Year's drink drive warning from police

This means that 15% of all fatalities in road accidents involved drink driving.

DRIVE TALK DRINK-DRIVE DEATHS ON THE RISE

Drink driving killed 380 people in 2009 and seriously injured 1,490 others.

Drink drive warnings plea; drivelines

SCOTTISH doctors yesterday called for a cut in the drink driving limits to slash the death toll on the roads.

Call to cut drink limit for drivers

According to the Campaign Against Drink Driving (Cadd) any reduction in the limit would save thousands of lives.

RETRO REPORT-OCTOBER 1997:Call for lowering of drink-drive limit

Transport Secretary Alastair Darling with Coronation Street star Sally Lindsey, who plays Shelley Unwin, on the set of the Rovers Return Pub at the launch of the Government's Christmas drink driving campaign.

Government's Christmas drink driving campaign

Says Kevin Delaney, head of road safety at the RAC Foundation: "Most of us are well aware of the problems of drink driving but little is said about the perils of drunk pedestrians.

MOTORING: Pavement drunks alert

At the same time last year, 4,128 people had been stopped, 571 breath tested, and 21 found to be drink driving.