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A zero, or close to zero, limit would mean you could have a drink or you could drive, not both. You just have to chose. I like a beer so I get taxis because, even after one, I feel a bit "unusual" if I'm driving. Several times I have left the car at a boozer and gone back for it the next day.

A curfew order can be a requirement when imposing a community penalty. A neighbour of mine had one for a while and he said it was "absolutely terrible" (which is a good thing from a deterrence perspective).

It might be mitigation, but it's not a defence.

I apologise and stand (well, sit) corrected.

As I posted previously, drink driving is almost unique in that the demographics are very widely spread across age/gender/wealth. You're just as likely to see a 20 year old woman as a retired man. Have a google for "Court results excess alcohol" Incidentally, the highest reading I ever...

Quite the opposite. As with alcohol consumption the danger increases as speed (or alcohol level) increases. The government have decreed that there is a limit above which you are breaking the law. Your assertion was that if you're not over the limit you're safe; I disagree. You might not, but...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3145590/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1008127517301141 https://www.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/2014/607652/ Are you really asserting that if you have 34.9mg/100ml of alcohol in breath then, whilst legal, you are perfectly fine and...

Because even one drink impairs your ability and allowing people to "just have one" can lead to "one for the road". If people know they will be over the limit with a half of lager, they won't start drinking at all.

It's a minimum 3 year ban for a repeat conviction within 10 years.

I was talking generally, not in relation to cake.

Not exactly. The police have a roadside breath test. If you fail that you're taken to the police station and given two goes on the breath machine. The lower reading is used. If you blow between 36 and 40 (the limit is 35), you are offered a blood test. If you blow over 40, you're charged. With...