The portion of women convicted for drink-driving has almost doubled since 1998, according to new research study which requires the legal alcohol limit to be lowered.
The stats expose that 17 per cent of convictions for drink driving were female in 2012, up from just nine per cent in 1998. even more worrying, was the truth one in six women motorists stated they believed they’d driven over the limit in the past year.
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The research, funded by direct Line as well as the Rees Jeffreys road Fund, likewise discovered that when figures were changed for miles driven, women were really more likely to be over the limit than guy from the age of 30.
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The report suggests much better education as well as more understanding for women however likewise requires a reducing of the legal drink-drive limit. It argued that the present 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood was as well high as well as based on a male metabolism. The limit is likewise the greatest in Europe while northern Ireland as well as Scotland are both proposing to lower the limit to 50mg in 100ml.
Females metabolise alcohol in a totally different method as well as hit the limit much quicker as the alcohol is far less diluted in the bloodstream. half of the women surveyed as part of the research study stated they didn’t even understand the limit as well as 12 per cent felt they might drink more than the “average woman”.