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"annual tests between 50mg (proposed new level) and 80mg (current level) were about 48000 per year. If you take all the police time that charging those people would consume, it might well be true that deploying them elsewhere would save more lives than the number advanced by proponents of a cut"
Well yes - but you'd hope that the number of drivers caught with levels in this range would drop very swiftly if this legislation was introduced and enforced.
In reality, it seems to me that drivers routinely push at the limits imposed by legislation; not just drinking but parking, speed limits, phone use etc.
Drink driving at any level is inexcusable - I'd go for a zero limit tomorrow if it was up to me.