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Or, to look at the other side of it: the experts (many years ago) believe it is unsafe to drive with 36ug in their system. Do you think that 1ug difference will keep you- or your brother, or anybody else who crosses your/his path- safe?

You're not stating the laws though. The law states 35ug alcohol/ 100ml breath. Your brother drank two pints. Nowhere in the law does it refer to any number of pints. He could have been close, or it could have been a high reading from alcohol still in his mouth having just finished his last...

Medication isn't a defence in straightforward drink-driving case. You're either above the limit or you're not. Medication doesn't put you over the alcohol limit: alcohol does. It might put you over the drug-drive limit, of course, but that would be a separate offence in its own right for which...

Alcohol from a mouthwash should only stay in your mouth for a matter of minutes, and would only be absorbed into your system in such minute quantities as to be untraceable. Unless you're drinking it, of course :wink: If you were unfortunate enough to fail a roadside breath test because you'd...

(1) Alcohol is an inhibitor, and increases one's confidence as well as distorting one's perception, so the chances are, you won't know even if it did affect your driving. (2) I can think of one or two pubs I'd happily see shut down, knowing how much they actively support those who choose to get...

I won't go into specifics for obvious reasons, but...it won't. And it isn't very low, not at all.

By the way: if you had a crash, and recorded a breath/alcohol reading of somewhere under the limit: you could still be charged, and consequently banned, for driving whilst unfit through drink (S4 Road Traffic Act), so long as it could be demonstrated that your driving was somehow impaired-...

Of course not. They're just cheapo things, probably made in China, designed to make people who are already inclined to take risks, more inclined to take risks. Re previous question of yours, I wouldn't want to see a zero limit, for reasons I've outlined in my reply to Buzzer above.

Unfortunately, Buzzer, we have the joint highest permissible alcohol levels in mainland Europe. Most countries in the EU, as well as Scotland now, have a limit of 20 micrograms of alcohol per 100ml of breath. Here, and in I think only a couple of other places, it's 35. It's a poor show. I...

You can buy kits online now, but those will never, ever, ever be admissible as evidence. What would be the point? If somebody blows a reading of, say, 29ug of alcohol in one of those, when the legal limit is 35, they might think "yeah, I'm good: let's drive". When in reality I would suggest that...

No you're not. There used to be a statutory option whereby somebody who blew between 40 and 50 were offered the option to have blood taken and analysed, which of course anybody in their right mind did, in the hope that by the time this was done, the alcohol levels in your system had dropped...