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Cutting drink-drive limit ‘no cure-all’

A coronor says he is not convinced the proposed reduction in drink-driving limits will have any affect on road carnage.

Dr Denis McCauley, a GP from Ballybofey, Co Donegal, says plans to reduce drink-driving limits to 50 mg of alcohol to 100ml of blood in the autumn under the Road Traffic Act 2010 could be a costly exercise and will lead to social exclusion in rural Ireland.

He said he wants to see a "cost-benefit analysis" for the reduction, saying an awful lot of money has to be spent getting it down.

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Source: Stephen Maguire, Irish Independent, 15/05/2011

Posted by Andy on 05/15 at 03:55 PM in
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