kopernikus
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More bad news today for Scottish drivers. The Scottish Parliament have reduced the drink/drive blood/alcohol limit from 80 to 50 mg/100ml blood. In general it will do little to reduce road accidents. The Scottish Parliaments own figures state that 10% of all accidents involving fatalities and injury are caused by drivers over the current alcohol limit. If that is true then drivers who haven't been drinking are causing 90%, or 9 out of 10 of these accidents. What is their excuse?? Have they been eating, taking drugs or methadone, using their mobile phone, smoking pot or taking legal highs or are they just rank bad drivers.? Why are they not also being targeted.?
I can see the Plod waiting in the bushes at dawn each morning to catch anyone who had a couple of drinks the previous day and who may probably be just over the new limit. This hardly makes them drunk drivers. The outcome will be that lots of working people who drive for a living will be deprived of their livelyhood whilst the majority, those causing 90% of the carnage, will escape scot free.
I can see the Plod waiting in the bushes at dawn each morning to catch anyone who had a couple of drinks the previous day and who may probably be just over the new limit. This hardly makes them drunk drivers. The outcome will be that lots of working people who drive for a living will be deprived of their livelyhood whilst the majority, those causing 90% of the carnage, will escape scot free.