Drink Driving
Key Messages
- Don't Drink and Drive.
- It takes less than you might think to become a drink driver.
- You can't calculate your alcohol limit.
- Watch out for those dangerous - 'Fancy a Quick One!' moments.
Drink Driving Statistics
- On average 3,000 people are killed or seriously injured each year in drink drive collisions.
- Nearly one in six of all deaths on the road involve drivers who are over the legal alcohol limit.
- Drinking and driving occurs across a wide range of age groups but particularly among young men aged 17-29 in both casualties and positive breath tests following a collision. The Government's most recent drink drive campaigns aims to target this group.
- The latest provisional figures from 2004, show that some 590 people were killed in crashes in which a driver was over the legal limit, 2,350 were seriously injured and 14,050 were slightly injured.
- And if you think you won't get caught, more than half a million breath tests are carried out each year and on average 100,000 are found to be positive.
Drinking and Driving Don't Mix
- The legal limit in the UK is 80 milligrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of blood. However, any amount of alcohol affects your ability to drive safely. The effects can include:
- slower reactions
- increased stopping distance
- poorer judgement of speed and distance
- reduced field of vision
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