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Monday, July 14, 2008

Zero drink drive limit for teenagers call by Government's top doctor Sir Liam Donaldson


By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
4/07/2008

Sir Liam Donaldson, the Chief Medical Officer, has called for the drink drive limit for teenagers to be reduced to zero.

The Government's top doctor said England should follow Europe and America and ban teenage drivers from drinking any alcohol at all in order to prevent accidents.

Teenage drivers are more than twice as likely to crash if they have been drinking within the current drink drive limit than older drivers.

The call for a zero drink drive limit for teenagers was included in Sir Liam's annual report on the state of public health which focused primarily on the health of adolescen
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