There is talk of the reducing the bottle.

Run_to_da_hills

There is talk of reducing the bottle from .8mg to .5mg for all motorists and down to just .2MG limit for learner drivers, those operating PSV's and truck drivers.

Is this limit too low? Ie would it put you over the limit after taking a glass of wine with the missus on a night out?

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gRoYHUNtPNBiL7Ln7u082Jidd_NQ


This will bring our limits into line with much of continental Europe but its not the lowest, some countries have a zero limit

Here is the list.

0.0 per mg – Estonia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary
0.2 per mg – Norway, Poland, Sweden
0.5 per mg - Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany (Germany is 0.3 if you’re in an accident), Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Serbia/Montenegro, Croatia, Latvia, Macedonia, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Cyprus (North)
0.8 per mg – U.K., Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Switzerland
0.9 Cyprus (South)

Quazzie

So I'm having my usual 8 pints and 14 vodka and red bulls tomorrow night. how long do i have to wait before I can drive home?

giggsy664

I don't get it. Stop bombarding me with your statistics.

99% of statistics are made up you know?

The Real B-man

Never Drink & Drive! Full Stop

giggsy664

The Real B-man wrote: »

Never Drink & Drive! Full Stop

Yeah. You might hit a speed bump and spill your drink!

Archeron

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

So I'm having my usual 8 pints and 14 vodka and red bulls tomorrow night. how long do i have to wait before I can drive home?

4,257 years. Seems fair.

Quazzie

giggsy664 wrote: »

Yeah. You might hit a speed bump and spill your drink!

Its the government that put them darn speed bumps there too. But they're not deterring me!!

SAVE_ME.222

This won't make a blind bit of difference. I heard a pathologist on newstalk a few months ago, who dealt with a lot of crash victims in the north and said 0.5mg -> 0.8mg are not the levels of alcohol in the driver of drink driving cases. He said the average was triple this, around 2.4mg . My opinion on this would be to properly enforce current laws, not change them just to appear as being pro-active.

Mark200

Well I'd support this change. The way it should be is: if you're going to drive, don't drink alcohol. No other way about it. It doesn't matter about the "average" or "majority" if one drink of alcohol can still affect your driving.

Run_to_da_hills

This will give our poor taxi drivers a business boost.

DanGerMus

Make it simple. ZERO. That way there's no argueing.

weeder

alcohol doesnt taste nice imo and i only drink to get drunk so this has no real effect on me

Run_to_da_hills

DanGerMus wrote: »

Make it simple. ZERO. That way there's no argueing.

I wouldn't complain about that.

Red Sleeping Beauty

The Real B-man wrote: »

Never Drink & Drive! Full Stop

Alcohol stays in your blood for many hours after having had your last drink, even if you've had a sleep. So they should change their slogan to "Never Drink 2days before you're going to Drive"

tony1kenobi

alan dunne 27 wrote: »

Alcohol stays in your blood for many hours after having had your last drink, even if you've had a sleep. So they should change their slogan to "Never Drink 2days before you're going to Drive"

That's what cocaine is for.

Drift

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

0.0 per mg – Estonia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary
0.2 per mg – Norway, Poland, Sweden
0.5 per mg - Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany (Germany is 0.3 if you’re in an accident), Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Serbia/Montenegro, Croatia, Latvia, Macedonia, Netherlands, Austria, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, Cyprus (North)
0.8 per mg – U.K., Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Switzerland
0.9 Cyprus (South)

Not to completely miss the point of the thread but Malta is in it twice.

Edit: I don't drink at all so I'm not strictly concerned by the change in limits. I've a supsicion however that a more vigorous enforcement of the current limits would be more of a deterant than reducing the limit.

Quazzie

Drift wrote: »

Not to completely miss the point of the thread but Malta is in it twice.

Edit: I don't drink at all so I'm not strictly concerned by the change in limits. I've a supsicion however that a more vigorous enforcement of the current limits would be more of a deterant than reducing the limit.

yet further proof if needed that all RTDH's posts are false and made up.

Shacklebolt

DanGerMus wrote: »

Make it simple. ZERO. That way there's no argueing.

The phrase "Pandoras Box" comes to mind.

Run_to_da_hills

Drift wrote: »

Not to completely miss the point of the thread but Malta is in it twice.

Quazzie2002 wrote: »

yet further proof if needed that all RTDH's posts are false and made up.

source: http://www.safetravel.co.uk/EuropeDrinkDrivingLimits.html :P