We have submitted evidence to the Transport Committee’s Call for Evidence on the Road Safety Strategy. We have responded only to the questions relevant to our work and have provided evidence relevant to reducing drink driving.
In our response, we highlighted our support for reducing the drink driving limit to 20mg (milligrammes of alcohol)/100ml (millilitres) blood for all drivers.
We recommend a number of further measures to strengthen the Strategy’s impact:
- A lower drink driving limit for novice and commercial drivers, if the limit is only reduced to 50mg/100ml blood
- Mandating alcohol interlock installation facilitation (AIIF) technologies
- Testing for alcohol dependency before imposing alcohol interlocks
- Mandating drink drive rehabilitation courses
- Launching effective drink-driving communications campaigns
- Developing policies free from alcohol industry interference
- Making offenders cover the costs of evidential testing for drink driving
- Improving data collection
We believe the following measures set out in the Strategy are based on robust evidence:
- Lowering the drink driving limit
- Use of alcohol interlock devices
- Powers to suspend driving licences and vehicle seizures
