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The survey by Brake, the road safety charity, and Direct Line reveals a shocking one in 14 drivers (7%) admit they drive at least once a month after having taken drugs. The release of these figures comes a year after the introduction of new drug-drive laws designed to make it easier for police to catch […]
While crashes caused by drink drivers are continuing to fall slightly, some drivers are still not getting the message about the dangers, especially men in their 20s who are still the most prolific offenders. The number of crashes, where at least one driver was over the limit, dropped by 930 between 2010 and 2013 (6620 […]
IAM director of policy and research Neil Greig said: “Drivers must understand that drink driving wrecks lives in all sorts of unexpected ways. For some it’s having to live with the guilt of causing a totally avoidable death or injury but for most it’s the economic impact that comes with a criminal record and a […]
Brake, the road safety charity, is calling on drivers to commit to staying stone cold sober if driving home from xmas festivities – not a drop, not a drag – or plan to get home by taxi or public transport, to prevent devastating casualties. The call comes as the Association of Chief Police Officers’ annual […]
Provisional estimates for 2012, released today by the Department for Transport (DfT), show there were 290 people killed in drink-drive accidents in Great Britain – a rise of around a quarter compared to the previous year. As a proportion of all reported road fatalities, the number of drink-drive deaths was 17 per cent in 2012, […]
The Times Online has reported that the government has signalled a proposed change to the law in relation to the amount of alcohol one can have prior to driving a car. The current UK legal limit for drivers is 80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood. This current limit allows the ‘average’ male […]
The Times has a really good article on the lower drink drive limit. What do you make of the proposal? Seems like a fairly sensible idea I guess, though for right-minded individuals, it shouldn’t make too much of a difference at all – due to the fact that we wouldn’t drink and drive anyway. Part […]
The Sun reported on Friday that a woman was caught more than four times over the drink-drive limit – and yet somehow still managed to avoid jail. The woman in question reportedly drank 20 pints and other alcoholic drinks (according to the report, though I find this inaccurate unless she’d drank them over an extended […]