Drink And The Driver
Sir, —If the conclusion to today’s editorial is accurate it only remains to convince timid and indecisive politi cians. Agitation for introduc tion of blood tests is not a demand for restriction of a drinker’s right to drive so much as a positive plea for survival of other road users The British Government acknowledges this in its White Paper estimation of- the prevention of 18.000 to 32,000 road casualties a year if noone drove with more than 0.08 per cent alcoholic concentration in the blood. As lone ago as 1952 the B.M.A. (N.Z.) reported its findings. The Minister of Transport set up a committee in 1961, asked the B.M.A. to re-examine its report. This was published in 1963. We endure a further Parliamentary committee studying the contemporary evidence. The B.M.A. and the Automobile Association, Canterbury, recommended 0.1 per cent. If the whole point of the inquiry is to save life, each daily delay by Government encourages an unnecessary funeral.—Yours, etc., PHILLIP RAMSAY. March 9. 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 16
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169Drink And The Driver Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 16
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