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## ALCOHOUCS ON THE ROAD No. 4: ,IT WAS a major advance in road safety when the Stat~, led by Victoria in 1965, adopted the breathalyzer, allowing .the ready determination of the blood alcohol level in erring motorists, To drive with a level of 0'05% at which the average person's driving ability is impaired, became an offence in Victoria. New South Wales, South Australia and Tasmania required 0'08% for a conviction, Queensland (}1O%. In Western Australia, (}15% became prima-facie evidence that. the driver. was under the influence. Thousands of drinking drivers have since been detected and their licences withdfaw¥.fora time, but the 3,502 traffic deaths in the Commonwealth in 1969, at least half of which may be ascribed to alcohol, now call for further measures. Many studies in Australia and overseas have shown that alcoholics make a disproportionate contribution 'to serious road crashes, often miscalled accidents. Evidence for this is based on the frequent finding among traffic offenders of blood alcohol levels much above those produced by ordinary social .drinking, the previous conviction of many for drink driving, drunkenness or other offences associated with drinking, and the re

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Publisher

AMPCo

Published

1970

Language

EN

Field

Social Sciences