Yet, drink driving accident data in Belgium remain incomplete and patchy, with breath test results available in only 60% of all crashes. IBSR estimates that drink driving is the ain cause in 25% of all lethal accidents.
The recent Eurobarometer survey
showed that people driving under the influence of alcohol are considered to be a major safety problem by 92% of the polled Belgian citizens, and that 68% of them believe the government should do more to tackle this
problem.
The Belgian government published today the decrees implementing the framework law on
using alcolocks(6) in rehabilitation programmes adopted in Parliament on the 4th of June 2009. A judge will now be able to offer the participation in an alcolock rehabilitation programme to a drink driving recidivist or a first time offender caught with a BAC limit of
0.8g/l and over for a period of at least one year up to five years. The alcolock will allow this person to continue driving with the help of the alcolocks and to benefit from a follow-up up with a professional trained for this. The limit for the lock will be set at 0.09mg/ml exhaled
air (the equivalent of 0.2g/l BAC, which is lower than the legal limit of 0.5).
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