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| − | According to statistics, over 90% of all UK drivers take into account that driving below the influence of alcohol is really unsafe, and recognize the dangers of driving when drunk. The issue with this statistic is that it means that more than two million UK drivers need to assume that drunk driving is not harmful. This could not be additional from the truth, each year on British roads 3000 to 3500 folks are killed in drink related accidents.
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| − | Newspaper headlines commonly claim that the numbers are falling, although it is true that more than the final handful of years the numbers have fallen, that is only compared to record highs. When you appear at the very first time the figure was recorded back in 1979 only 1600 men and women had been killed, half of todays figures. Therefore, it appears hard to argue that these are good figures and numbers of deaths are going down.
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| − | The UK legal limit for driving with alcohol in your system is 80mg of alcohol to 100ml of blood. It does not necessarily stick to that if you physique has less than this limit you are safe to drive. In the US, numerous states have successfully prosecuted drivers who had been beneath the legal limit but still deemed to be unfit to drive.
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| − | Even in the late 70s if the police stopped a driver who was drunk, they usually did not have breathalyzers accessible. And would also take an attitude of the driver was not also drunk and let them stroll the rest of the way property. That attitude has disappeared totally police now constantly seek convictions for drivers who are even a tiny fraction more than the limit.
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| − | If you pick to drink and drive the law now has stiff penalties, combined with a strong will to make an instance of, not just some, but all offenders. Driving above the limit carries a 12 month ban, a 5,000 fine, and a sentence of up to six months in jail, and that is for the 1st offence. Any person who thinks its a excellent idea to refuse a breath test faces the very same penalties.
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| − | An endorsement on your license for a drink-driving is not removed for eleven years, that signifies for eleven years if the police pull you over they will virtually definitely breathalyze you, on the basis that you have a background of ignoring the dangers of driving when drunk.
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| − | Insurance coverage businesses would rather take on a seventeen year old with a sports car than a person with a drink driving conviction as they contemplate the threat to be lower. This signifies premiums could be a number of occasions what you paid before the conviction. Immediately after a second offence, insurance coverage is almost impossible to acquire at any value.
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| − | Drunk drivers who killed an individual else, used to often come under the careless driving laws, which carried a optimum penalty of a two,500 fine. The new offence of causing death by careless driving, whilst beneath the influence of drink or drugs, is slightly stricter with a maximum disqualification of two years, and a fourteen year prison sentence.
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| − | Drinking and driving is now totally socially unacceptable, with not only the courts frowning on such behavior. Buddies and neighbours can ostracize offenders, employers have no interest in taking on convicted drink drivers, and even if they do, their insurers will often block the employment. The days of casual drink driving are nicely and definitely over with the vast majority of people recognizing the dangers of driving when drunk on British roads.
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