DRUNKEN DRIVERS
New U.K. Test Plan (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright! LONDON, August 14. The British Government has dropped plans for random roadside breath tests to cut down drunken driving after protests from motoring organisations, who said it would infringe personal liberties. Instead the police will have to have reasonable suspicion that a driver is drunk before they can test his breath. He will be liable to prosecution if found with an alcoho, concentration of over 80 milligrammes a 100 millimetres of blood—the equivalent of nine whiskys or five pints of English beer.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31139, 16 August 1966, Page 9
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