Scotland - and that reduced Drink Driving limit!

Propel is today reporting that the number of drink-driving offences in Scotland has fallen since the legal limit was lowered a year ago. Police figures apparently show offending in the nine months after December 2014 fell by 12.5% compared with the same period the previous year. The total number of offences over this period dropped from 4,208 to 3,682, Police Scotland data revealed. Meanwhile, a survey has suggested that 82% of Scots believe that drinking any alcohol before driving is unacceptable. The poll was commissioned by the Scottish government and Transport Scotland. Only one in 20 respondents said they would drive themselves home after they had been drinking on a night out. More than two thirds (67%) said they would not consider driving the morning after drinking.

Last December, the Scottish government reduced the legal alcohol limit for driving from 80mg to 50mg in every 100ml of blood. The limit in England and Wales remains at 80mg.

This follows on from repeated reports on the effect that this reduction in the legal alcohol limit has had on the level of on sale consumption north of the border, with a reported increase in the prevalence of home drinking.