{"id":6973,"date":"2011-09-26T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6973"},"modified":"2011-09-26T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-26T15:29:00","slug":"ni-to-cut-drink-drive-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=6973","title":{"rendered":"NI to Cut Drink-Drive Limits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Northern Ireland has been in the news today concerning plans<\/a> to drop the current 80mg\/100ml blood alcohol limit to 50mg\/100ml. The changes would see an even lower limit of 20mg\/100ml set for younger drivers and people who driver for a living.<\/p>\n

The UK decided against a lower limit earlier this year – quite possibly because lower limits would bring us into line with Europe, and this government is overtly anti-European.<\/p>\n

The What Car? article says that it would be the first time different zones of the UK as a whole had differing limits.<\/p>\n

Scotland is also in favour of a reduced alcohol limit, and also of giving police wider powers for random roadside alcohol tests. Unfortunately for Scotland, the decision still lies with the UK government – unless the Scotland Bill is passed, which would allow them to make their own laws.<\/p>\n

Also according to the article, Wales is not considering any change to its laws. I find that one particularly strange, as Wales has as much of a problem with this as Scotland, Northern Ireland, and England do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Northern Ireland has been in the news today concerning plans to drop the current 80mg\/100ml blood alcohol limit to 50mg\/100ml. The changes would see an even lower limit of 20mg\/100ml set for younger drivers and people who driver for a living. The UK decided against a lower limit earlier this year – quite possibly because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}