Minor Rant...

Article in today's Times :

"Calls for tougher drink-drive limit as death toll hits seven-year high"

which is fairly self-explanatory.

However the suggestion by the various 'safety' groups that lowering the
drink driving limit would stop this trend is, to me, farcical when on the
same article there is a graph indicating that the number of breath checks
has dropped by 25% over the period of this increase - and the lowest number
of deaths coincided with the highest number of checks.

That and the number of police on active traffic duty has fallen by 11% since
1996.

You could lower the limit to 0. If there is no one to check it, the effect
will be **** all.

Now I've proven numerous times that I usually can't see the wood for the
trees, but just what am I missing that makes me think the problem with half
the road accidents is the method of enforcement - not the state of the laws?

 

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I thought this might have been a Pitcairn Island post but, seeing as
it isn't I have nothing to say.