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Article: Safety chiefs call for drink-drive limit cut.

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Hartlepool Mail (Hartlepool, England)
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June 1, 2007
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KEVIN Clinton, Head of Road Safety at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), said the latest news about young drink-drivers underlined the urgent need for a reduction in the drink-dive limit and for police to be given powers to breath tests motorists anywhere and at any time.

"We have seen a worrying increase in the number of drink-drive related deaths in recent years and we have to do something to stop that," he said.

"Studies have shown that by cutting the drink-drive limit from 80mg to 50mg would save 65 lives and 230 serious injuries on Britain's roads each year.

"Just because we have a legal limit of 80mg does not mean ...

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