• One in eight drivers stopped fail drink or drugs test
    • 09/12/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    One in eight drivers stopped during a week-long road safety campaign were over the alcohol or drug limit. The week-long initiative was launched by Lancashire Constabulary at the end of November, with 406 tests carried out and 51 arrests made. This included a woman driving at speed with a 10-month-old baby in the [...]
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  • Drink-driving crashes escalate during Covid
    • 24/02/2022
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    The latest Department for Transport (DfT) figures reveal that drink-driving crashes went up in the first nine months of Covid-19, despite a dramatic fall in road traffic. Over one in six of all fatal crashes involved alcohol in 2020 compared to around one in seven in previous years. Final estimates for 2020 of [...]
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  • ‘Break the drink drive habit’
    • 06/08/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Brake, the road safety charity, has reiterated its call for a zero-tolerance drink drive limit, in response to government figures showing Britain is still failing to adequately tackle its drink drive problem. A final estimate shows 240 people were killed by drivers over the legal drink drive limit in 2013, while [...]
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  • Police call for drink-drive slash
    • 19/05/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    The police federation is renewing its call to lower the drink drive limit in England and Wales. The body wants the legal limit in England and Wales to be reduced from 80 to 50 mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood - in line with changes introduced in Scotland in 2014. Northern Ireland has already said it is considering [...]
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  • ‘Alarming’ drink driving trend emerges
    • 16/03/2015
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    An alarming two million over the limit drivers have risked getting behind the wheel of a car because they thought they were ‘less drunk’ than their passengers. The worrying trend is most common after nights out, dinner parties and weddings, according to new research by Direct Line Car Insurance. The study [...]
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