Government suggest zero tolerance for teen boozers

The government’s chief medical officer has said that the drink-driving limit for teenage drivers should be cut to a zero tolerance tactic.

The statistics show that teen drivers are more likely to have an accident than an older driver when they are within the legal drinking limit. Sir Liam Donaldson said that a total cut in the alcohol level would lower the amount of incidents involving 17-20 year old.

The idea has emerged as new young drivers, even without alcohol are more likely to have an incident because they are inexperienced drivers and are not as road confident as other older drivers.

The general consensus is that this plan would be a good idea and would prove powerful in reducing the amount of deaths and injuries, however there still is some concern over other aspect of the plan.

Sir Liam admits there could be other problems including if drivers eat food cooked with alcohol in or mouthwash with an alcohol ingredient. This has been discussed however this could cause problems, other countries have also taken the zero tolerance approach and this has not been an issue.

The RAC have questioned this idea by saying that having a two-tier system would confuse drivers more than they are currently. The official legal guidelines at present for drinking and driving is 80 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. The RAC have suggested the drink-driving limit should be lowered for all.

The only questions remaining, if this law was to be passed how would that affect new drivers that are older than 20 years old? These new drivers are still inexperienced and not road confident!

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