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Doctors' orders: slash drink-drive limit
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A DRAMATIC cut in the drink-drive limit will be demanded by
Scottish doctors this week in a bid to further reduce road deaths.
Doctors' union the British Medical Association Scotland wants the
limit slashed by almost 40 per cent. The new level would mean a
driver who had drunk half a pint of beer was potentially at risk of
failing a breath test.
The demand is contained in the BMA's manifesto for the 2003
Scottish parliament elections, which covers a wide range of health-
related issues.
A key strand of the manifesto is a call for the drink-drive limit
of 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood ...
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