Road safety compliance consultation
Department for Transport, February 2009
This consultation sought views on proposals for measures aimed at improving compliance levels with key road safety laws. The five issues consulted on were speeding, drink driving, seatbelt wearing, drug driving and careless driving.
Alcohol Concern welcomes the opportunity to comment on proposals for measures aimed at improving compliance levels with key road safety laws on drink-driving.
We believe that despite overall decreases in percentage and number of casualties over the last decades the level of road death and injury due to drink-driving remains unacceptably high. While the road safety and public health campaigns have helped to bring down the percentage of accidents involving drink-driving, measures now need to focus on the minority of irresponsible drivers who persist in drink driving
We believe that in order to tackle drink-driving there needs to be a wide range of measures, which include lowering the permissible blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level, tighter road-side testing procedures and more thorough assessment of drivers as a pre-condition of regaining their licence.
The consultation was published on 20 November 2008 and closed on 27 February 2009.