This is actually a good reason to go back to the old rule in my opinion. It was my concern from the start that resources would be wasted fining those over the new limit but under the old which would be taken away from catching the "real" drink drivers.
It shouldn't be hard to imagine that if a cop is tied up with someone for 15 minutes breath testing and processing a low limit drink driver that that is 15 minutes that they are not looking for a real drink driver.
We would have to look at it far more in depth to confirm that this is a significant reason why the lowering of the limit has failed, but it's a promising hypothesis worth testing in my opinion. There must be some reasons for it having failed and it's one of the best theory's I can come up with.
thejazzpianoma,
Jul 5, 2:45am
No, the ones on the road are real too. If you had grasped what was being discussed you would understand that the amount of people dieing as a result of drink driving has gone up not down since the law change. This was also predicted by the governments own study even before the law was changed.
So we have wasted millions and continue to waste millions on a system which is worse. How you reinvest the money saved in my opinion should then be wherever it will save the most lives. If that is the roads, then fine, I have a suspicion the best road investment could be infrastructure upgrades like SH2 is desperately needing. However, the real logical investment might be something surprising and in an entirely different field.
supernova2,
Jul 5, 2:56am
I think the real problem is that the penalty handed out by the Courts (perhaps because of the legislation) is not sufficient to have any effect on the miscreants who drive drunk in the 1st place. Just handing out fines to be paid off at $5 a week for the next thousand years won't fix anything. Disqualification won't stop anything either. Anyone know what the odds are of being stopped whilst driving while disqualified? If you do get caught you simply get a longer disqualification period. Oh dear!
thejazzpianoma,
Jul 5, 2:58am
Could well be and that's the sort of thing we should be testing and if it it proves worthy of the funding then do it. No point wasting millions initially and ongoing on things that sound good but just make matters worse.
bumfacingdown,
Jul 5, 3:28am
Has it gone up because the limit has gone down, nothing to do with more crashes?
esky-tastic,
Jul 5, 3:48am
Well that’s YOUR opinion.
And if you were able to, what would you make the breath alcohol limit?
esky-tastic,
Dec 6, 12:00am
How does that relate to the population increase and the increase of drivers on the road?
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