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UCL in the News: One drink and you're over: drivers face lower limit to cut road deaths
15 June 2007
Motorists could find themselves over the alcohol limit after just one drink under a proposal to bring Britain's drink-drive law into line with the rest of Europe.
The Government is considering lowering the limit from 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood to 50mg and later this year will publish a consultation paper to gauge opinion. …
Research by UCL found that lowering the limit to 50mg would prevent an estimated 65 deaths and 230 injuries a year in Britain. It would also save the economy £119 million a year by reducing medical costs and lost working time. …
Ben Webster, 'The Times'
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