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  • The panel, which will meet in the spring, will consider if it is possible to set drug equivalents to the drink-drive blood alcohol level.

    Drug-driving law could be toughened 2012

  • A ban on happy hours and stricter drink-drive limits are among recommendations by the College of Emergency Medicine

    New alcohol restrictions needed, say emergency doctors heath correspondent 2010

  • The College of Emergency Medicine (CEM) is also urging an end to the sale of alcohol at petrol stations, a reduction in the drink-drive limit from 80mg per 100ml of blood to 50mg per 100ml, advertisements not targeted at young people and the introduction of a minimum price per unit of alcohol.

    New alcohol restrictions needed, say emergency doctors heath correspondent 2010

  • A young man had committed a drink-drive at the kind of level that would attract a medium-upper community penalty, but there was a problem with using unpaid work or a curfew because he is a mechanic in the RAF and may well be off to a hot and dusty place in the New Year, or possibly sooner.

    D-Fined Bystander 2009

  • It turned out that he had recently heard a drink-drive case in which the driver ran the laced drinks argument, and produced someone who claimed to have put several large Pernods in his pal's Guinness risky - he might be charged himself.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Bystander 2009

  • Many offences drink-drive, drunk in the street, common assault and suchlike can only be dealt with by magistrates and there is no option of a jury trial.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Bystander 2009

  • Many offences drink-drive, drunk in the street, common assault and suchlike can only be dealt with by magistrates and there is no option of a jury trial.

    Send It Up? Bystander 2009

  • I suggest you order some strong black coffee, as you are way over the drink-drive limit.

    Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009

  • It turned out that he had recently heard a drink-drive case in which the driver ran the laced drinks argument, and produced someone who claimed to have put several large Pernods in his pal's Guinness risky - he might be charged himself.

    Now That's Dedication Bystander 2009

  • A young man had committed a drink-drive at the kind of level that would attract a medium-upper community penalty, but there was a problem with using unpaid work or a curfew because he is a mechanic in the RAF and may well be off to a hot and dusty place in the New Year, or possibly sooner.

    Archive 2009-07-01 Bystander 2009

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